ONLINE FINAL YEAR PROJECT TITLE BOOKING SYSTEM

KAMANESWARY A/P MUNUSAMY

(B021010143)

This Report Is Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the

Bachelor Degree of Electronic Engineering (Computer Engineering) With
Honours

FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRONIK DAN KEJURUTERAAN

KOMPUTER
UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

JUNE 2014
 ABSTRACT

This project is very useful system for the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering

(FKEKK), UTeM. The project title is Online Final Year Project Title Booking System. The

system was developed to guide the faculty lectures and students. This system manage is the

systematic application that make the registration of final year project using online. Users easy

to manage and save more time by wasting time finding each lectures who available and

confirm the FYP title. The methods that use in developing this system by using PHP

programming language. This system also helps to improve final year project registration

compared to the traditional methods and minimize the usage of paper.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thankful to God, because I can finish my PSM this semester with success. A million
thanks to special supervisor is Mr. Hamzah Asyrani Bin Sulaiman from University of
Technical Malaysia, Malacca because I have received for advice and support.

Not forgotten thanks to my family for providing everything, such as money, to buy
anything that was related to PSM. They also supported me and encouraged me to complete
my PSM project.

Then I would like to thank all my friends, for guiding me. During PSM, a lot of
knowledge and technical skill that I have learned. Without their guidance and information, I
do not think I will gain knowledge and manage to do work that have been assigned to.

Finally, a speech to thank the University of Technical Malaysia, Malacca and to all
who are involved directly or indirectly.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

ABSTRACT i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii
TABLE OF CONTENT iii
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TABLES

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction of Project
1.2 Problem Background
1.3 Project Aim
1.4 Objective Project
1.5 Scope of the Project
1.5.1 User Scope
1.5.2 System Scope
1.6 Significance of the Study

2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Manual System at FKEKK
2.2.1 List of Final Year Project Title
2.3 Previous Projects
2.3.1 Online Registration System
2.3.2 Student Industrial Internship Web Portal
2.3.3 Carl’s Restaurantant Delivery Online System

3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Reviews of Project Methodology
 3.2 Project Implementation
3.3 Process Flowchart
3.4 Project Requirement
3.4.1 Software Requirement
3.4.1.1 Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
3.4.1.2 XAMPP Server
3.4.1.3 PHP Language
3.4.1.4 Star UML
3.5 Gantt Chart
3.6 Project Design Concept

4 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

4.1 System Modules
4.1.1 Login as Admin
4.1.2 Login as Lecture
4.1.3 Login as Student
4.2 Discussion

5 CONCLUSION
5.1 Conclusions
5.2 Future Potential
 LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURES PAGES

Figure 2.1: List of Final Year Project Title 6

Figure 2.2: Manual Form 7

Figure 2.3: Use Case Diagram of Instructor 8

Figure 2.4: Use Case Diagram of Student 9

Figure 2.5: Entity Relationship Diagram 10

Figure 2.6: System Architecture 12

Figure 3.1: Flow Chart for PSM1 15

Figure 3.2: Process of Flowchart 17

Figure 3.3: Use Case Diagram Project 24

Figure 4.1: Login Page 26

Figure 4.2: Admin Home Page 27

Figure 4.3: Manage Lecture 27

Figure 4.4: Register Lectures 28

Figure 4.5: Manage Student 28

Figure 4.6: Register Students 29

Figure 4.7: Manage Announcement 29

Figure 4.8: Add Announcement 30

Figure 4.9: Delete Announcement 30

Figure 4.10: Login Page Lecture 31

Figure 4.11: Lecture Home Page 31

Figure 4.12: Add New Titles 32

Figure 4.13: Titles List 32

Figures 4.14: Student List 33

Figure 4.15: Student List to Approve 33

Figure 4.16: Announcement List For Lectures 34

Figure 4.17: Student Login Page 34

Figure 4.18: Main Page of Student 35

Figure 4.19: Title Search by Lecture 35

Figure 4.20: Title By Lecture list Pending 36

Figure 4.21: Title Search By lecture list Selected 36

Figure 4.22: Search By Course 37

Figure 4.23: The Title selected by Student 38

Figure 4.24: Student Announcement List 38

Figure 4.25: Flowchart of System 39

Figure 4.26: System Weakness 40

Figure 5.1: Android Application 43

 LIST OF TABLES

TABLES PAGES

Table 3.1: Gantt Chart 23

 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction of Project

Online Final Year Project Booking System is mainly designed for

lectures and student in FKEKK. The purpose of this project is to guide the
faculty lecture and students who taking final year project in fourth year. The
lectures need to add project title and the student need to choose and lectures will
confirm their student. In the current situation the lectures and student are facing a
lot of problems in a manual system. To ensure the problem solve, we decide to
design this system that called Online Final Year Project Booking System. This
project develops a system application, using database used for academic
purposes. To manage is the systematic application that makes the registration of
final year project using to communication. This system is using PHP
programming language. The FKEKK lectures and final year students can use the
web application anywhere and anytime. It will make them easier and save more
time by wasting time finding each lecture who available and confirm the title.
1.2 Problem Background

Currently, the system is working manually. Normally, final year student

registers their final year project subject via online before starting fourth year.
Then the lecturers need to submit their titles to committee members of final year
project management. After the procedure, the committee members will patch the
list of titles in FKEKK board to the students. The student needs to choose the
title at FKEKK board. After the students choose their project title, then the
student needs to meet the lecture to confirm they are project title selection. Then
the student needs to walk the lecture room from door to door to know whether
the titles are still available or already taken by other students. The manual system
is made hard and took a lot of time to lectures and students. The same time,
students also pressure with choosing a project title and change title for final year
project. It will make them wasting time finding each lecture who available and
confirm the title.

1.3 Project Aim

The aim of this project is to make the lectures and students save their
time. Beside that via this project we can less the usage of paper.

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1.4 Objective Project

 The objective is the final results to be achieved. The main objective is to

develop this system to improve follow with new counters.

 To design a new online system that's capable of handling final year

project registration.

 To develop a database server using MYSQL that can communicate with

the online final year registration system to store specific data from both
lecturers and students.
 To verify and validate the efficiency of the application.

1.5 Scope of Project

This system has two scopes which are user and system.

1.5.1 User Scope

The scope of user is based on the user that will use who is a lecturer and student.
The scopes are described below.

a. Administrator
- Have privileges to add, update, and access system modules for lectures and
student.
- Have privileges to add an announcement to lectures and students.
- Responsible storing data or full database backup and restore.

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 b. Lectures
- Have privilege to add a title, to accept student who had selected title and
update project title.
- Have privileges to view announcement that post by admin.

c. Student

- Have privileges to view lectures name and titles.

- Have privileges to view announcement that post by admin.

- Responsible to make decisions for their final year project title.

1.5.2 System Scope

The system will automatically unlock the title, when the lecture selects
the student the system will unlock the two titles that the student chose before.
One student can select three titles before the lectures approve, after the lecture
approve, the system will unlock the other two titles to other students.

1.6 Significance of the Study

The signification of the study is the proper registration of title backing of

final year project interactive using Graphical User Interface by Adobe
Dreamweaver 8. This could help the admin, lectures and students choose their
final year project title by online.

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 CHAPTER 2

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Introduction

In order to complete this project, a literature review is needed. It has

played an important role as the early phase in developing this project. This
chapter will discuss the information from the website, and research that has been
done. From the research in the internet, the literature review is meant a process
and documentation of the current relevant research literature regarding a
particular topic or subject of interest. In addition, it also consists the knowledge
and how these elements related and combined with each other.

2.2 Manual System at FKEKK

Currently in FKEKK using the manual system to choose Final Year

Project Title. In computer technology improvement department still using paper
to choose and select Final Year Project Title.

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2.2.1 List of Final Year Project Title

Before starting 4th year for final year students the lectures should provide
their title. Each lecture need provide maximum four project title. The faculty
lecture needs to do manual list and paste in faculty PSM main board.

Figure 2.1: List of Final Year Project Title

Figure 2.1 shows the sample of the list of final year project title. After the lecture
post the project title the students need to check by manually.
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 Figure 2.2: Manual Form

Figure 2.2 shows the manual form of the booking Final Year Project Title. The
manual form that student need to submit to lecture. This form needs to submit to
lecture attach with a project proposal.

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2.3 Previous Projects

2.3.1 E. Shafie, Al-Ajlan, K. Bajahzar and Y. Al-Saawy Software

Technology, “Online Registration System”, Research Laboratory
(STRL), 2011. [7]

This paper discussed about the educational process, such as developing

good study plans and the efficiency of teachers and others. This system
developed for academic purposes to control and save student attendance data.
The main three types of users can use this system is instructive, students and
administration. Three main types of users can have different options to use the
system. The student access the application to show his/her school timetable and
history of attendance or other module activities. The instructor can use the
system to register the student attendance and to show the student's attendance
history. The same time the instructor has a choice to update the student
attendance. The system administrator controls the system by managing (add,
delete, update) student, module, instructor and program data.

Figure 2.3: Use Case Diagram of Instructor

This figure 2.3 has had seven use cases allocated for instructional users, which
are login, logout, view time table, view student attendance, online attendance
register, change student attendance and change password.

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 Figure 2.4: Use Case Diagram of Student

Figure 2.4 is five use cases allocated for student users, which are login,
logout, view time table, view attendance history and change password. The
administrator use case has been prioritized to make sure that the use cases with
the higher priority will be implemented. All other lower priority use cases are
less related to the attendance system and have actually been developed before.
The two figures requirements are always used to determine the functions of the
system or the components of these functions.
It could be processing data, calculations, organizing instruction or other
things needed to be done by the system regarding user requirements. So, in this
system, there are some functions determined which are registered and update
student attendance by instructors. Then the system shows the timetable for
students and instructors. Its produce some statistics for students about their
attendance and the manage system also logins. This figure shows the different
types of data depending on the users access rights.

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 Figure 2.5: Entity Relationship Diagram

Figure 2.5 shows the preferred flow system before system running. This
system files with other system components saved in
C:\j3t\webappfolder\WEBINF\JSP folder and the same time all jsp files should
be defined in router file. But the tomcat server configuration with MYSQL
database by modifying the web.xml file. Tomcat configuration is by editing
web.xml to define the servlet mapping (router). The same time also to define the
database connection and the database used by running tomcat serve and mysql
database engine.
The system database is prepared to save the data will sort in sequence
variable (loop). The loop defines the variable, whereas each row in the table has
id used to determine other variable in the same row. Every code above used the
loop to process all parameters from the submitted page, then used as key to
another parameter. Then the data will be stored in the database.

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 Finally the design and develop a user-friendly online registration system
for the academic usage, which would allow students to tick their attendance
through online academic login procedure, assists instructors to keep track of
student attendances and allows administrators to keep track of student records.

2.3.2 Aliza Bt. Salon, Wan Fatimah Bt Wan Ahmad, “Student Industrial
Internship: Web Portal”, Dismas Bismo Universiti Teknologi
PETRONAS,2008. [5]

The Student Industrial Web Portal is developed to automate the current

manual business process. This portal allows internship eligibility checking,
registration, student-lecturer assignment, visit schedule, online-logbook
submission and monitoring as well as a grade book of industrial internship. This
system using the PHP 5, Easy PHP 2.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004,
MySQL Database and Apache Web Serve. The phased development model used
in the development process by applying business process improvement
technique. The prototype can be used as a communication medium for all parties
involved during the industrial internship program. The system can be easily used
as an aid for the internship program.

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 Figure 2.6: System Architecture

The SIIWP system architecture adopts the combination of data-

centered and client-serve architectural model. A client-server system modal is
associated server(s) and organized as a set of services and clients that access and
use the services. The system architecture is as a server itself or one of the servers
(s), contains a database where data are stored, thus it adopts data centered
architecture.

As SIIWP meets all functional and nonfunctional requirements and

built specifically on top of a well-studied and improved SIIU business process
match closely to users’ expectations. Then the same time SIIWP also able to
solve the distant learning problem in SIIP. The implementation of SIIWP can
help SIIU to ensure the success of SIIP by providing optimal and high quality
service. The same time, the new system is may be able to become a central
internship and job resource central for UTP students.

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2.3.1 Carl’s Restaurantant Delivery Online System by Farah Nabila Bt Md Nawi
(source from his final year project report), Universiti Teknikal Malaysia,
Melaka.[4]

Carl’s system improves with the current system because the current
system doesn't provide online ordering. When starting to order the customer need
to call customer service to make their order. The current system makes problems
for staffs to handle all customers, especially during the promotion time. The
project is to provide an online ordering system.
The system is important to all users is admin, staff and customer for Carl’s
Restaurant to control and handle delivery order online. This system use hardware
is laptop, printer, and using software its Window 7, Adobe Dreamweaver and
MySQL.
This system is very important to customer knows the status order and
customer also can add the other order anytime at the same day. The customer
knows the status total price order to control their order according their budget.

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 CHAPTER 3

METHODOLOGY

Methodology is the key to succeeding in finishing a project within time and

being able to satisfy the user’s requirements. It is also a description of the selected
approach that will be used when developing the project. Every step in the selected
methodology will be used.

3.1 Reviews of Project Methodology

The process of the whole project has to be sketched properly in earlier stage so
that the project is assured to be on the right route towards the defined objectives
Methodology is the key to succeeding in finishing a project within time and being able
to satisfy the user’s requirements. It is also a description of the selected approach that
will be used when developing the project. Every step in the selected methodology will
be used.As a summary, the methodology of this project will include the brief
introduction of the project title and objectives, a flow chart of project progress, a
Ghant’s Chart of the planned progress.

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3.2 Project Implementation

This chapter reveals the proposed method of implementing the project. Of this project
consists of two main parts, the methodology discussion would be separated with respect
to each part. The important on this is systematic planning and implementation in order to
complete system on time.

Start 1

Determine Project title Research about this

project

Submit Proposal
Make a report
Not satisfied

Discuss Survey equipment, tools

with & project utility
supervisor

Satisfied Final PSM 1

Figure 3.1 Flow Chart for PSM1

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The explanation for the elements in figure 3.1 is shown below:

 Choose the title of the final year project. The idea must be related with the
problem statement, objective and scope of the project.

 Presented about the project idea to supervisor. Then had selected two titles and
proposed to supervise for giving ideas regarding the title.

 Submit the detailed project proposal. The proposal submitted and evaluates by a
supervisor and need to make corrections to improve on the proposal.

 To understand the design of project and find some similar web application in
internet. For the additional information could be accessed from the internet,
journal, reference books, supervisor guidance and etc.

 Next, start to do a report about this project. The report should include with three
chapters, its introduction, literature review, methodology and expected result of
this project.

 Then, the report proceeds to be evaluated from the supervisor and panels based
on the performances of the students and perception of the projection.

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