Developing a booking system : case TUAS Cisco laboratory

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis project was to develop a new browser-based online booking system for the Turku University of Applied Sciences Cisco Laboratory. The new system was needed because the current system was outdated and system functionalities and user interface requirements needed to be updated. The development for the new system was started with a new list of requirements from the laboratory staff and taking into consideration the basic idea from the current system. The main goals were to improve the usability and the security of the system. PHP5 and MySQL were used as development tools for the server side development and Twitter Bootstrap front-end framework including HTML, JavaScript and CSS for the browser side. This thesis work concentrates on how to develop a booking system for a specific situation and how to achieve the best results on front and back-end.