Development of an E-Based Hostel Management System

This project is based on Design and Implementation of an E-based Hostel Management System for use at Olayinka Hostel, Federal School of Surveying, Oyo. It evolved from the manual file record system used to store hostel details, room details, student records, hall allocation and other data in the hostel. With the help of the internet, computers and other mobile devices are used to manage hostel records and help the administrator effectively access these records. This research aims to create an efficient and reliable hostel allocation system that can do all the manual work with ease. This project is carried out using HTML, CSS for the front-end design while PHP was used for the back- end and MySQL for the database. The developed system overcomes the drawbacks of traditional methods of hostel management; it is more user-friendly, graphical- user-interface oriented, reliable, efficient and secured with access control mechanism. It is recommended that Olayinka hostel and other institutions or organization managing hostels should adopt the e-based system for their hostel management so as to reduce manual paper work, administrative tasks and save times spent by on doing things manually with the old hotels management technique.