Development of web portal for society management using recent technologies-PHP&WordPress

Development of web portal for society management using recent technologies-PHP&WordPress

Development of web portal for society management using recent technologies- PHP&WordPress

Pillai Sathya Elumalai, Karale Dhanashri, Phani Kaustabh , Prof. Varsha Wangikar

K.C. College of Engineering & Management Studies & Research. Thane sathyapillai04@gmail.com

Abstract – Majority of co-operative housing societies till today follow up the traditional way of manually maintaining the society details. As of the technological advancements societies have moved ahead in society maintenance by maintaining blogs or social networking sites linkage (group/page of society).But this does not help one to have more accessibility regarding society details or ones own details in accordance with the society.

As of now there is no user-equipped web-portal for any society to manage their details.

In this paper we try to reduce the paper work and owners can easily get the details of other flat owners. This online web application can reduce the paper work, telephone cost & manual working. This site provides us updates upcoming news about the society.

The flat owner can easily communicate to the other flat owners through the email.

The main purpose of making this online web application is to provide the information, news about the society.

Keywords: PHP, WordPress etc.

1. INTRODUCTION

   The implemented web portal for society management digitizes almost all the tasks done manually in maintaining the society details by keeping all things online. Basically this way of making the things go online makes the existing management system more portable, accurate, and easily accessible.

   Though there are various existing technologies for developing the web portal, each of it has its own drawbacks. So we prefer PHP & WordPress for developing the portal for society management.

   Existing technologies for web development

   Web Development can be split into many areas and a typical and basic web development hierarchy might consist of:

   Client side coding

   • Ajax Asynchronous JavaScript provides new methods of using JavaScript, and other languages to improve the user experience.

   • Flash Adobe Flash Player is a ubiquitous browser plugin ready for RIAs. Flex 2 is also deployed to the Flash Player (version 9+).

   • JavaScript JavaScript is a ubiquitous client side platform for creating and delivering rich web applications that can also run across a wide variety of devices. It is a dialect of the scripting language ECMAScript.

   • JQuery Cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify and speed up the client-side scripting of HTML.

   • Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft's browser plugin that enables animation, vector graphics and high-definition video playback, programmed using XAML and .NET programming languages.

   • HTML5 and CSS3 Latest HTML proposed standard combined with the latest proposed standard for CSS natively supports much of the client-side functionality provided by other frameworks such as Flash and Silverlight.

     Looking at these items from an "umbrella approach", client side coding XHTML is executed and stored on a local client whereas server side code is not available to a client and is executed on a server which generates the appropriate XHTML which is then sent to the client. The nature of client side coding allow alter the HTML on a local client and refresh the pages with updated content, web designers must bear in mind the importance and relevance to security with their server side scripts. If a server side script accepts content from a locally modified client side script, the web development of that page is poorly sanitized with relation to security.

     Server side coding ASP (Microsoft proprietary)

   • ActiveVFP (open source)

   • CSP, Server-Side ANSI C

   • ColdFusion (Adobe proprietary, formerly Macromedia, formerly Allaire)

   • CGI

   • Erlang,

     with Linux, Yaws, Mnesia, Erlang (LYME) solution stack

   • Groovy (programming language) Grails (framework)

   • Java, e.g. Java EE or WebObjects

   • Lotus Domino

   • Node.js

   • Perl, e.g. Catalyst, Dancer or Mojolicious (all open source)

   • PHP (open source)

   • Python, e.g. Django (web framework) (open source)

   • Real Studio Web Edition

   • Ruby, e.g. Ruby on Rails (open source)

   • Smalltalk e.g. Seaside, AIDA/Web

   • SSJS Server-Side JavaScript, e.g. Aptana Jaxer, Mozilla Rhino

   • WebDNA (WSC proprietary)

   • Websphere (IBM proprietary)

   • .NET and .NET MVC Frameworks (Microsoft proprietary)

   Presently there is only blog of society is available with no login facility, payment status etc. An example of a blog is given below.

   Figure 1: Blog of Housing Society

   In this paper we focus on developing a web site for a Society to give a better performance in their regular operations.

   This paper is ordered as follows. Section 2 and 3 will be discussed about detail concept of PHP and WordPress. Section 4 focuses on Functionalities of Web Portal for society management using PHP & wordpress with the discussion of the Snap shot is also explained. Finally we end the paper with concluding remarks in sections 5.

2. PHP

   1. PHP is Open Source. This means it is readily available and absolutely free! If you are planning to hire PHP developers and they have a good background in C and Java, they will do excellently in PHP.

   2. PHP is cross-platform and therefore enables operation across various operating systems. It works excellently on LINUX, UNIX and Windows platforms & Apache/MySQL.

   3. PHP, as mentioned before, is very popular. Therefore, there are a number of references and guidelines available on the net.

   4. PHP often enables people to create dynamic websites. This ensures more visitor participation and thereby better returns.

   5. The PHP community is a large one. Owing to its popularity, there are many PHP developers, PHP contributors, PHP users, and employers.

   6. PHP can be easily embedded into HTML. This makes it very easy for one to convert an already existing static website, into a bold and new dynamic one.

   7. Stability, Flexibility and Speed are the chief qualities that attract business owners to choose PHP.

   8. Although PHP is already well established, its future prospects are infinite. The keynote is that PHP is loosely typed. This makes simple scripts much faster to develop. One has to devote much less energy towards design.

   9. PHP, being very fast to develop ensures that there is a quick turnaround time. When you hire PHP developers, their efficiency brings you an online solution that you were probably looking for since a long time.

   10. PHP has multiple extensions and is extremely scalable. When you hire PHP developers, they ensure that the results are measurable. This helps you calculate your ROI and gives you a better position over the competition.

   11. If you need to access other web based tools like Google maps (which is always advisable for a business website), or any other, PHP makes it easy to access.

   More often than not, many a hosting services have a ready to use PHP setup. This does not require any special configuration. Of course if you need a high secuity kind of website, you can easily go ahead modify it.

3. WORDPRESS

   1. WordPress is very easy to use and has an intuitive interface. Adding new pages, blog posts, images, etc. on a regular basis is a breeze and can be done quickly. Because the technology is so simple, time spent on formatting is greatly reduced.

   2. WordPress is browser-based. You can login from any Internet connected computer and manage your site.

   3. WordPress is a self-contained system and does not require HTML editing software (such as Adobe Contribute or Dreamweaver). You can create a new page or blog post, format text, upload images (and edit them), upload documents, video files, image galleries, etc. all without the need for additional HTML or FTP software.

   4. The code behind WordPress is very clean and simple, making it easy for search engines to read and index a sites content. In addition, each page, post, and image can have its own meta tag keywords, description, and title, and be optimized for specific keywords, allowing for very precise search engine optimization. You can also use tags to further enhance your search engine optimization efforts.

   5. No more waiting for your web designer to make simple updates to your site. With WordPress, you have control of nearly every aspect of your site and can easily make those

      Plugins Used:

      Figure 2: First page of Society Management

      simple updates yourself.

   7. Since WordPress was originally created as a blogging platform, blogging capabilities are built-in and are easy to integrate, if desired. Setting up RSS / email subscriptions to your blog, commenting capabilities, and automatically adding the most recent blog posts to other pages of the site (your home page, for example) are also very simple to set-up, and help to extend your companys reach and make your site more dynamic and interactive.

   As an administrator of a WordPress site, you can set-up multiple users for the website and assign access levels and capabilities to each user.

4. WEB PORTAL FOR SOCIETY MANAGEMENT

   USING PHP&WORDPRESS

   In this website, members can view their monthly maintenance status (paid/not paid).

   Voting system is also embedded in this website, so that members can vote for different candidates standing for various roles.

   There is also allotment of Hall, Ground for Celebration by admin.

   1. Theme My Login : This plugin is used for login and registration i.e. instead of WordPress login which is on separate page, this plugin allows us to provide a login on our static page.

      Figure 3: Login Form

   2. User Photo Plugin:

   This plugin is used for user Profile photo. User can upload his photo so that it can be viewed by other members while surfing the site.

   Figure 4: Profile Form

   3 .Advertisement Inserter : This plugin is used for inserting advertisements on your WordPress site.

   Functionality of User

   Figure 5: Tree Structure

   Functionality of Admin

   • Figure 6: Voting Method(Admin)
   • Figure 7: Monthly Bill of User

   • Figure 8: Search Friend

   • Figure 9: Voting Method(User)

   Figure 10: Important Numbers

5. CONCLUSION

As of the technological advancements societies have moved ahead in society maintenance by maintaining blogs or social networking sites linkage networking sites linkage (group/page of society).

But this does not help one to have more accessibility regarding society details or ones own details in accordance with the society.

As of now there is no user-equipped web-portal for any society to manage their details. Proposed system will reduce the paper work and owners can easily get the details of other flat owners. This online web application can reduce the paper work, telephone cost & manual working. This site provides us updates upcoming news about the society.

Future scope would be making a mobile application of the proposed system making it more flexible and available to the users from anywhere.

REFERENCES

1. Wikipedia-information about PHP and WordPress

2. Google-search

3. http://www.wikipedia.org

4. http://www.google.com

5. http://mayflowerchsl.blogspot.in/

6. http:// www.saipower.in

7. http://blog.ted.com/