Web Based Attendance and Absence Management System for Laps & PDAs

Abstract

The Laps & PDAs is a company which sells used and brand new laptops, computers and phones to the local market. As the units imported from abroad are in different conditions, there is the need for repairing, refurbishing and modifying the imported units. For this purpose, there are technicians work part-time basis who repair the units and record the time they spent each day. There are employees who work full-time too. Employees are paid in different ways based on the contract type and the type of the work they do. Payment calculation uses the the number of hours worked as well as the leave days taken. Laps & PDAs has been tracking the work hours and leave days manually. It has become a tedious task for the management to keep track of the information together with the payments done for the employees. Hence arose the need for seeking for a software solution which can enhance the way, the company track the info and generate the pay slips. Though the company's need was just a software that fits for the purpose, it was emphasized the advantages of a web based system at the initial discussions. Customer agreed after understanding the benefits of a web based solution as opposed to a stand-alone system. The goal of the project is to cater a set of requirements which are, Employee information management, attendance management, leave management and salary management. The project is implemented using the most popular web technologies. PHP serves as the server side scripting language, MySQL serves as the database management system and HTML, Javascript, CSS used for client side scripting and user interface generation. The system was well tested with all the probable, practical scenarios and test cases to ensure the system works and will cater for the client's need with highest performance and minimum downtime. Project scope is completed and customer who reviewed the system features is happy so far. Next step is to finalize the server hardware and installing the system over and rolling out for end user use.