A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR A WEB BASED E-COMMERCE PLATFORM USING K-MEANS CLUSTERING

Have XAMPP and Python 3.X preinstalled.

Start Apache and MySQL from the XAMPP control panel.

Download then extract.
Create a database named commerce in phpMyAdmin.
Import the database commerce.sql located in the db folder into the localhost phpMyAdmin commerce database.

In the command line or windows powershell, type the following commands for the kmeans algorithm library and mysql connector for python,

• pip3 install mysql-connector
• pip3 install -U scikit-learn spicy matplotlib

On the XAMPP control panel, open the file php.ini in Apache->config and add the following line if it doesn't exist,

• safe_mode_exec_dir=off
  This should enable running of the python file via command prompt by the PHP file.

Open Start and search app execution aliases. Turn off app installers for python so they are not invoked by the python3 keyword when running python files via command prompt.

• PHP version 8.0.13
• Python version 3.9

To run the customer/default module type localhost/commerce on the address bar
To run the admin module type localhost/commerce/admin (username:admin)(password:admin)

Use PayPal sandbox to create simulation accounts for payments via PayPal.