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Creating the Virtual Store Project

This chapter presents the requirements of the e-commerce project we plan to build, its use cases, its class diagrams, and the creation of the general structure of the application. We will start a more complex application that can serve as a reference for creating PHP enterprise web applications.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to create the structure for a complex software project using the Laminas framework as a container and service provider.

In this chapter, we’ll be covering the following topics:

• Understanding the project requirements for the sample web application
• Identifying use cases and actors
• Understanding the class diagram for whatstore (our fictional department store)
• Creating the project instance

Technical requirements

The environment for the virtual store project has been prepared in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Environment for Our E-Commerce Application. The hardware reference...