iBook: An interactive book system

The main objective of developing iBook is to create a web-based application, which serves people with all the functionalities provided in a book store. Two main views are kept in consideration while developing this application, one is the user view and other is the administrator view. The users are facilitated with the functions of searching book, uploading and downloading a book, making annotations on the book etc. Mainly the content of the book and its ranking is recognized by the annotations made on that book. The administrator is facilitated with the functions of uploading a book, can delete the annotations and the users. The architecture of this web application is designed in a way that both the user and administrator have to verify their credentials before availing the facilities provided by the iBook. The application is developed using PHP and JSON whereas the SQL database is used to keep the records at the back end.