Online hostel identification and booking system case study :

Abstract

An Online Hostel Identification and Booking System is a software application developed for managing various hostel activities such as room allocation, tracking the number of students who book for hostels displaying room information. In this project, the main object was to develop an online Hostel Identification and booking System. this system was developed to address high transport cost, over competition for rooms and time-wasting process of identifying and make booking for hostels. The method used in the development of the project was a waterfall methodology that ensured systematic and sequential flow of the system stages. The system development tools used were Dataflow Diagram, Context Diagram Entity Relationship Diagrams and a Flow Chart and the technologies used in implementation of the objectives of this study included MYSQL server database, PHP for server connections, and HTML for user interfaces. The result of the project was an Online Identification and Booking System capable of allowing students to view, select and book hostel, allow hostel administrators to register students and allocate them the hostels depending on their preferences. The application was finally run on the computer and was verified to be running sufficiently well and produced the expected results. Basing on the results produced by an Online Hostel Identification and Booking System, the researcher is very sure that once the system is adopted and put into practice, the problems that students and hostel owners are currently facing would eventually be diminished.