The business to consumer aspect of electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the most visible business use of the World Wide Web. The primary goal of an e-commerce site is to sell goods and services online.This project deals with developing an e-commerce website for Electronic gadgets. It provides the user with categories of different gadgets available for purchase. In order to facilitate online purchase a shopping cart is provided to the user. The system is implemented using a 2-tier approach, with backend database and PHP, HTML/CSS and a web browser as the front end client.In order to develop an e-commerce website, a number of Technologies must be studied and understood. These include multi-tiered architecture, server and client side scripting techniques, programming language (such as HTML/CSS, PHP), relational database (such as MySQL).This is a project with the objective to develop a basic website where a consumer is provided with a shopping cart application and also to know the technologies used to develop such an application.This document will discuss each of the underlying technologies to create and implement an e-commerce website