MURANG’A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

PROGRAMMING AND DATABASE

PRACTICUM GORDON OTIENO
SC212/1269/2017
HOUSE RENTAL MANAGEMENT
PORTAL REPORT
Abstract

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. With the current
paradigm shift in technological field, there is an urgent need to embrace and appreciate the
power of technology. Housing sector remains vigilant to face the challenges of change by
employing a new strategy that facilitates easy management of rental houses. Hence there is need
to develop a rental house management system that can simplify work for the rental managers so
that all their work can be efficient and effective. The Rental Management System is Searching in
Based on the Apartment Paying Guest, Office, House in metropolitan cities. The Rental
Management System is Based on the Owners and the Customers. The Owner is updated on the
Apartment, Office details, House, Paying Guest details. The Customer is details about the Room
space, Room rent and the Address Details also. The Rental Management System is best Suitable
the owners because time save and the only contact and the eligible person and there is no need to
explain the room details on the speak. The Rental Management System is best application in the
city place The customer contact and the easily search and the suitable place of Apartment,
Office, PG, House and based the Money, Limit Person is based on the suitable house. The Rental
Management System is save the time also. The Rental Management System is used to easily
identify the suitable place in Save time, cost also. The Rental Management System is best way to
search the house, Apartment office, Paying Guest. Hence this system is best applicable for the
above reasons making House rental an easy process through an online system

Acknowledgement

At the beginning I am very much grateful to almighty God for giving me strength and
opportunity and sound mind to complete the House Rental Management report. I want to bid my
heartiest thanks to my Lecturer, Dr. Tirus, for guiding and giving me the opportunity to initiate
this report. Then I want to thank Jionme Real Estate Ltd for giving me the opportunity to do my
research in their organization. Thanks again to my colleagues Thomas, Joseph and Steve Amani
without forgetting the 3 Idiots Team.I would also like to thank Murang’a University for their
library and internet facilities from where I got enormous information.
 Table of Content

Abstract........................................................................................................................................1

CHAPTER ONE..............................................................................................................................5

Introduction......................................................................................................................................5

1.1 Problem Statement..................................................................................................................5

1.2 Background............................................................................................................................5

1.2.1 How House Rental Services Work......................................................................................5

1.2.2 Benefits of Online House Rental Services..........................................................................5

1.3 Aims & Objectives.................................................................................................................6

1.4 Purpose, Scope and Applicability..........................................................................................6

1.4.1 Purpose................................................................................................................................6

1.4.2 Scope...................................................................................................................................7

1.4.3 Applicability........................................................................................................................7

CHAPTER TWO.............................................................................................................................7

SURVEY OF TECHNOLOGIES....................................................................................................7

2.1 About PHP.............................................................................................................................7

2.4 Connecting PHP Application to MySQL Database...............................................................9

2.5 Introduction to MySQL........................................................................................................10

Basic administration (supervisory level)................................................................................11

General management (functional level).................................................................................11

Strategic management............................................................................................................12

CHAPTER THREE........................................................................................................................12

REQUIREMENTS AND ANALYSIS...........................................................................................12

3.1 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT..............................................................12

3.1.1 HARDWARE....................................................................................................................12
 3.1.2 SOFTWARE.....................................................................................................................12

3.2 Functional Requirements......................................................................................................13

3.3 Non-Functional Requirements..............................................................................................13

3.4 CONCEPTUAL MODELS..................................................................................................14

Data Flow Diagram (DFD)........................................................................................................14

Functions of Customer...............................................................................................................15

Functions of System Administrator............................................................................................15

Functions of Landlord:...............................................................................................................15

USE-CASE DIAGRAMS................................................................................................................16

Actor and Use Case Description................................................................................................16

Use Case Diagram.......................................................................................................................18

Use-Case Dependency Diagram.................................................................................................19

Class Diagram............................................................................................................................19

CHAPTER FOUR..........................................................................................................................20

SYSTEM DESIGN........................................................................................................................20

Tenant Registration Module.......................................................................................................20

House Listing Module................................................................................................................21

LANDLORD REGISTRATION MODULE..............................................................................23

SALE HOUSE MODULE..........................................................................................................24

POST HOUSE............................................................................................................................28

Book House................................................................................................................................31

Contact and feedback.................................................................................................................31

ADMIN LOGIN MODULE.......................................................................................................35

Manage pages.............................................................................................................................36

Security.......................................................................................................................................37
 The system provides username and password to prevent the system from unauthorized access.
The staffs’ password must be greater than eight characters.......................................................37

Test Cases Design......................................................................................................................37

CHAPTER FIVE............................................................................................................................40

IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING.........................................................................................40

5.2 TESTING...........................................................................................................................40

5.3 Installation and project description......................................................................................41

CHAPTER 6..................................................................................................................................47

CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................47

6.2 Limitation of the system......................................................................................................48

6.3 REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................48

Books Used:...............................................................................................................................48

References Used:........................................................................................................................48

GLOSSARY...............................................................................................................................48

Table of figures
ER diagram Figure 1......................................................................................................................14
Level 0 DFD diagram for House Rental management system Figure 2........................................14
Figure 3Level 1 DFD of Online House Rental System..................................................................16
Figure 4: Use Case Diagram..........................................................................................................18
Figure 5Dependency Use Case Diagram.......................................................................................19
Figure 6 Class Diagram.................................................................................................................19
 CHAPTER ONE

Introduction

1.1 Problem Statement

House Rental is a house/Apartment/home that can be used temporarily for a fee during a
specified period. The individual who needs a house must contact a rental car company and
contract out for a room/home/apartment. This system increases customer retention and simplify
House and staff management.

1.2 Background
1.2.1 How House Rental Services Work
A House rental is a house that can be used temporarily for a period of time with a fee. Renting a
house assists people to live in a comfortable house when they do not have access to build their
own personal homes/houses or. The individual who want to rent a house/room/apartment/home
must first contact the House rental company for the desire House/Home/apartment. This can be
done online. At this point, this person has to supply some information such as; dates of rental,
and type of house. After these details are worked out, the individual renting the house must
present a valid Identification Card.

Most companies throughout the industry make a profit based of the type of house that are rented.
The rental houses are categorized into modern Homes, Colonial, apartment, Rentals etc. And
customers are free to choose any house of their choice based on their purse and availability of
such houses at the time of booking.

1.2.2 Benefits of Online House Rental Services

• This online house rental solution is fully functional and flexible.

• It is very easy to use.

• This online House rental system helps in back office administration by streamlining and
standardizing the procedures.

• It saves a lot of time, money and labor.

• Eco-friendly: The monitoring of the Housing activity and the overall business becomes easy
and includes the least of paper work.

• The software acts as an office that is open 24/7.

• It increases the efficiency of the management at offering quality services to the customers.

• It provides custom features development and support with the software.

1.3 Aims & Objectives

 To produce a web-based system that allow customer to register and reserve houses online
and for the company to effectively manage their House rental business.
 To ease customer’s task whenever they need to rent a house.
 To Transform the manual process of renting a house to an online and computerized system
 To validate the house rental system using user feedback and testimonies
 To produce the documentation such as Software Requirement specification, Software
Design Description and Software Development References

1.4 Purpose, Scope and Applicability:

1.4.1 Purpose

The advancement in Information Technology and internet penetration has greatly enhanced
various business processes and communication between companies (services provider) and their
customers of which Real Estate/House Rentals industry is not left out. This House Rental System
is developed to provide the following services:

• Enhance Business Processes: To be able to use internet technology to project the rental
company to the global world instead of limiting their services to their local domain alone,
thus increase their return on investment.

• Online House/Room Booking: A tools through which customers can book available
Rooms/House/Apartment online prior to their date of using the house instead of walking
around and asking for a vacant house.

• Customer’s registration: A registration portal to hold customer’s details, monitor their

transaction and used same to offer better and improve services to them and user account
where he/she can view her/his details instead of the poor existing systems where only the
administrators control their customer details.

• Rentals Notice and Blog: A tool where customers can see and view the details of nearby
available House for rent/sale, and also view the current economic design of
houses/apartments.
1.4.2Scope

This project traverses a lot of areas ranging from business concept to computing field, and
required to perform several researches to be able to achieve the project objectives. The area
covers include:

• Real Estate Company: This includes study on how the Real Estate business is being done,
process involved and opportunity that exist for improvement.

• PHP Technology used for the development of the application.

• General customers as well as the company’s staff will be able to use the system effectively.

• Web-platform means that the system will be available for access 24/7 except when there is a
temporary server issue which is expected to be minimal.

• Existing Systems: This involves studying the existing systems and learning their weakness
hence developing a new system to cater for the challenges the local and world domains faces
when dealing with house rental issues.

1.4.3Applicability

House Rental is a house/Apartment/home that can be used temporarily for a fee during a
specified period. The individual who needs a house must contact a House Rental Owners
Through House rental Online System by first checking the available Houses, booking it then The
system will contact the house owners to check the House and contract out for a
room/home/apartment. This system increases customer retention and simplify House and staff
management. The System can be used by Real Estate Companies to increase the house rental
market around the world. The system will also help people to rent apartments/houses easily
instead of walking and manually renting houses. It is also applicable for landlords who wants to
expand their house rental business.

CHAPTER TWO
SURVEY OF TECHNOLOGIES

2.1 About PHP

PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was
originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP
code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP
processor module, which generates the web page document.

As a general-purpose programming language, PHP code is processed by an interpreter

application in command-line mode performing desired operating system operations and
producing program output on its standard output channel. It may also function as a graphical
application. PHP is available as a processor for most modern web servers and as standalone
interpreter on most operating systems and computing platforms.

PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 and has been in continuous development
ever since. The main implementation of PHP is now produced by the PHP Group and serves as
the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification. PHP is free software released
under the PHP License.

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to server-side web

development where PHP generally runs on a web server. Any PHP code in a requested file is
executed by the PHP runtime, usually to create dynamic web page content. It can also be used
for command-line scripting and client-side GUI applications. PHP can be deployed on most web
servers, many operating systems and platforms, and can be used with many relational database
management systems. It is available free of charge, and the PHP Group provides the complete
source code for users to build, customize and extend for their own use.

Originally designed to create dynamic web pages, PHP now focuses mainly on server side
scripting, and it is similar to other server-side scripting languages that provide dynamic content
from a web server to a client, such as Microsoft's Active Server Pages, Sun Microsystems’ Java
Server Pages, and mod_perl. PHP has also attracted the development of many frameworks that
provide building blocks and a design structure to promote rapid application development (RAD).
Some of these include CakePHP, Symfony, Code Igniter and Zend Framework, offering features
similar to other web application frameworks.

2.2 PHP Syntax:

HTML and PHP code is written on the same page, and to distinguish PHP code from HTML, the
PHP code is enclosed within <? php ?> Tags.

For example:
<html>

<head><title>php basics</title></head>

<body>

<h2>HELLO</h1> <?php
echo "hello";

?>

</body>

</html>

In the above example PHP code is embedded within HTML. In this way PHP and HTML coding
is combined on the same page.

Since PHP is a server side scripting language, the PHP coding cannot be seen by the end user
through view source option, due to this feature PHP is very secure.

PHP is a parsed language; therefore PHP environment is necessary at the server for running PHP
scripts.

2.3 Working Of PHP:

When a client requests web page containing PHP code from the server, then the requested PHP
pages are parsed under PHP environment and interaction with database is made if required.

After server side processing, the resulting HTML pages are passed to client and displayed on the
browser.

In this way the working of php is complete.

2.4 Connecting PHP Application to MySQL Database

Make a connection variable to the database:

$con= mysql_connect ("localhost","servername","password");
Here $con is a connection variable to database.
Select database over that connection variable
$db=mysql_select_db("databasename",$con);
Prepare a sql query to execute:
$qry= Select * from abc;
Run the sql query:
$result=mysql_query($qry);
Iterate over the result:
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))

{
//some logic
}

2.5 Introduction to MySQL:

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing
multi-user access to a number of databases. MySQL is officially pronounced ("My S-Q-L"), but
is often pronounced ("My Sequel"). It is named for original developer Michael Widenius's
daughter My.

The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. MySQL is owned
and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Sun
Microsystems, a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

MySQL code uses C and C++. The SQL parser uses yacc and a home-brewed lexer, sql_lex.cc.

MySQL works on many different system platforms, including AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD, HPUX,
i5/OS, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, eComStation,
OS/2 Warp, QNX, IRIX, Solaris, Symbian, SunOS, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, Sanos,
Tru64 and Microsoft Windows. A port of MySQL to OpenVMS also exists.

All major programming languages with language-specific APIs include Libraries for accessing
MySQL database. In addition, an ODBC interface called MyODBC allows additional
programming languages that support the ODBC interface to communicate with a MySQL
database, such as ASP or ColdFusion. The HTSQL - URL based query method also ships with
MySQL adapter allowing direct interaction with MySQL database from any web client via
structured URLs. The MySQL server and official libraries are mostly implemented in ANSI
C/ANSI C++.

2.6 Introduction to APACHE SERVER:

In this project apache server is used to parse and execute PHP pages, before deploying websites
on the server, the website should be tested at the developer side to get a feel of how the website
will work on actual server.
Therefore apache server is like a local server on the developer side, apache server should be
informed about the environment on which it should work.
In our project apache server is configured to work with PHP, in this way all the PHP pages are
parsed and executed by the server.
When apache is installed on the system, then its services is controlled by apache service
monitor. The following are the database entities used in this system;
Houses: House information, Rental or sale/Buy agreement administration, credit control, cash
flow control, compatibility with accounting principles and practices and existing systems,
accurate bookkeeping, owner reporting and identifying of key performance indicators.

Tenant: general tenant information (name and contact details), finding space for a tenant,
accurate rent billing and collection, handling of payments, accounting and general ledger (GL)
functions.

Landlord, Client or Body Corporate: general details (name and contact details), shareholding
if applicable.

Basic administration (supervisory level)

Repair and maintenance schedules are required by the House manager, as well as a diary to
“flag” important dates for tenant’s works, rent review and lease renewal dates. A good software
program should also provide for a forward planning facility.

General management (functional level)

Aptly summarises the requirements at this level as follows:

“In terms of accounting procedures, the main property management related tasks will comprise

• Rent invoicing and income connection

• Recovery of expenditure

• Disbursements/outgoings

• Service charge costing and apportionment

• Client and tenant accounts

• Report production.

Any rent invoicing system should record amounts owing from tenants quickly and accurately and
bill them accordingly. Receipts will need to be processed quickly and credit control systems
maintained. Rent demands and accounts should be easily accessible as should rent apportioned
over periods not concurrent with a normal rent review period. Interest on unpaid rent should be
calculable and a stop on rent collection made if necessary. Full analysis of rents, classified by
tenant, property or client should also be possible. Service charge accounting is often provided as
a separate module. This will need to cater for multi tenanted buildings where perhaps some
tenants do not contribute to some services. Separate schedules may well need to be set up in such
cases. In addition, a full analysis of property expenditure, service suppliers, tenant expenditure,
service charges, wages and salaries, and VAT on expenditure should be possible”.

Strategic management

Lastly, a software programme should provide the information necessary to make strategic
decisions. Such decisions include the performance and valuation of individual properties and
property portfolios, as well as development appraisals. Features that are required comprise,
among other things, tenancy and tenure details, the calculation of yields and profitability,
discounted cash flows, cost, financing, tax implications and the valuation of both freeholds and
leaseholds. All these should be supported by good menu-driven features and help facilities.
Technical aspects and user interface requirements are discussed below.

CHAPTER THREE

REQUIREMENTS AND ANALYSIS

3.1 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT

3.1.1 HARDWARE:
Processor Pentium-II or higher
Processor Speed 533 MHZ
Hard Disk Space 20 GB (min.)
Ram Memory 32 MB (64 MB recommended)

3.1.2 SOFTWARE:

Operating System Windows 95/98/NT/2000 /10/7/8

Database Server MySql /XAMP/WAMP
Front end PHP
Text Editor Notepad++

3.2 Functional Requirements

Requirement analysis is a software engineering technique that is composed of the various tasks
that determine the needs or conditions that are to be met for a new or altered product, taking into
consideration the possible conflicting requirements of the various users.

Functional requirements are those requirements that are used to illustrate the internal working
nature of the system, the description of the system, and explanation of each subsystem. It
consists of what task the system should perform, the processes involved, which data should the
system holds and the interfaces with the user. The functional requirements identified are:
 Customer’s registration: The system should allow new users to register online.
 Online reservation of House: Customers should be able to use the system to make
booking and online reservation.
 Automatic update to database once reservation is made or new customer registered:
Whenever there’s new reservation or new registration, the system should be able update
the database without any additional efforts from the admin.
 Feedbacks to customers: It should provide means for customers to leave feedback.
3.3 Non-Functional Requirements

It describes aspects of the system that are concerned with how the system provides the functional
requirements. They are:
a. Security: The subsystem should provide a high level of security and integrity of the data held
by the system, only authorized personnel of the company can gain access to the company’s
secured page on the system; and only users with valid password and username can login to
view user’s page.
b. Performance and Response time: The system should have high performance rate when
executing user’s input and should be able to provide feedback or response within a short time
span usually 50 seconds for highly complicated task and 20 to 25 seconds for less
complicated task.
c. Error handling: Error should be considerably minimized and an appropriate error message
that guides the user to recover from an error should be provided. Validation of user’s input is
highly essential. Also the standard time taken to recover from an error should be 15 to 20
seconds.
d. Availability: This system should always be available for access at 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Also in the occurrence of any major system malfunctioning, the system should be available
in 1 to 2 working days, so that the business process is not severely affected
3.4 CONCEPTUAL MODELS

ER diagram
ER diagram is a graphical representation of a system entities their attributes and the relationship
between them as shown in the figure below
ER diagram Figure 1

Data Flow Diagram (DFD)

A Data Flow Diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation that depicts the information flow and
the transforms that are applied as data moves from input to output.

Level 0 DFD diagram for House Rental management system Figure 2

Level 0 DFD of Online House Rental System in this diagram, Customer,
Landlords and System Administrator are entity sets.
Functions of Customer:
 New Registration
 Login Request
 Registration Confirmation by the System
 Reserve House
 House Issued by the System
 Email received for Reserved House.
Functions of System Administrator
 Add Customers/Tenants/landlords
 Send E-Mails for Reserved House
 View Transaction reports
 Post Vacant Houses
Functions of Landlord:
 Register in the system
 Post a New house
 Send House Confirmation to System Administrator
 House Details

Figure 3Level 1 DFD of Online House Rental System

USE-CASE DIAGRAMS

Actor and Use Case Description

Actor and use case description shows the detail description of interaction between the actors and
their use cases. The description enables to have a proper understanding of how actor interacts
with the system through their use cases.

Actor Use Case Use Case Description

Customer Register as This use case describes the activities of the customer to register
member online and become a member. Customer's details are required as
part of the registration. Customer chooses his login details by
entering user name and password registration.
 Make This use case enable customer to search and make reservation.
reservation Non-register customer will be directed to register before their
reservation can be confirmed. Notification is automatically send
to the customer after the task is completed.

Account This use case describes the event of customer setting his account
management and viewing his bookings.
Give feedback This use case is used by the customer to provide feedbacks and
And testimonies and Testimonies to the company; The user also subscribes to the
subscription news feeds to automatically get news on the available houses. a
confirmation notification will be send to the customer once a
feedback has been submitted.
This use case is used by the landlords to add new and vacant house
for rent or sale to the company's fleet database. Landlord will
Add new House needed to login to activate this use case.
Update House This use case is used by the Landlord to edit and modify House
details details whenever there is new renewal
(images, fees). It allows the company to keep up-to-date records
Landlord of their fleet

Reply to This use case describes the event by which Landlords sends reply to
customer's earlier feedback. It depends on `give feedback' use case
customer’s
from the customer.
feedback
Process rental This use case described the event by which landlord updates the
system when customer take the house
Admin Add new landlord This use case describes the event by which Admin add new landlord
detail to the company's landlord database.
It is invoke whenever a new landlord join the company.
View report This use case is used by the Admin to view transaction report.
Post House This use case is used by admin to add/edit new house

Manage pages This use case allows admin to manage system pages by either
adding,deleting or editing
Manage Testimonies This use case allows admin to view and manage Customers
Testimonies
Manage Bookings This use case describes the event by which admin views and
confirm house bookings from the customer and the send the
customer a
confirmation message
 Manage users This use case allows admin to add, edit, delete new customer

Manage This use case allows admin to add, delete or edit county, state, area
County/State/Area of the properties
Manage listing Types This use case describe how admin can add, delete or edit house
listing
Types
Manage Subscribers This use case allows admin to edit system subscribers.

Table: Actors and Use Case Description

Use Case Diagram

Figure 4: Use Case Diagram

Use-Case Dependency Diagram

Depends on
Add new Update House details
Register as Member

Contract
Make reservation
<<extend>>

Renew House contract <<extend>> Process rental

r
<<extend>> <<extend>>

Reply to customer's feedback

From Date To-Date Depends on

Give feedback/ comments

View customer’s
<<include>>
View report details
<<include>>

View transaction report

Figure 5Dependency Use Case Diagram

Class Diagram

Figure 6 Class Diagram

 CHAPTER FOUR
SYSTEM DESIGN

Tenant Registration Module

This module allows Tenants or the system users to register and log in in case they want to make
any inqueries in the system
House Listing Module

This module allows the system the system to query the uploaded Houses or property and display
them in the web portal page called house listing
LANDLORD REGISTRATION MODULE

This module allows property owners or landlords to register or log in incase the want to post
their properties in the system without contacting system administrator to do it.
SALE HOUSE MODULE

This module allows Landlord to post a property in the system after successful registration or
login.
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This module allows Tenant/Customer to Book a house after selecting from available listed
houses. In order to book a house, the customer/Tenant would be required by the system to log in
or register to continue with the process.

Contact and feedback

This module allows Customers to send their queries and feedbacks about the system and services
enquiries and their experience with the system services.
Buy House/Apartment
This module allows Customers to search for available houses, offices, shops, land, apartments in
system following the search panel then make order
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ADMIN LOGIN MODULE

This module allows system administrator to log in to the admin panel

Manage pages

This module allows system administrator to update the system pages without interfering with the
source code
Security

The system provides username and password to prevent the system from unauthorized access. The staffs’
password must be greater than eight characters.

Test Cases Design

Test case Purpose Precondition Test Steps Expected Results

Name
Register for Enable customer Customer has Customer will be
House booking to register in the valid email id. Click register button. registered in the
system before Provide required system.
booking house information such as,
name, email, phone
no.

View House Enable

Detailed
Details Customers/tenants Customer is Click view Details to
description of The
to view the details logged in the see the listed house
listed House in the
of listed Vacant system details
system
houses

Admin/Landlord Enable Admin/Landlord Input username If verified, grant

log in admin/Landlord has required Input password access to the
to credentials to log in Select user type system.
log in to the (Admin or If not, show error
system Landlord) Verify message.
username,
password and type
Create new Enable new Admin has valid Log in as admin, Another admin will
Admin account admin to use the email id click create new user be registered in the
system Click submit system.

User log out Enable user to log User is logged in Click log out button. User will be logged
out of the system out
Change Allow user to User exists in the Log in credentials
password change password system Click forgot will be updated
password in log in with new password.
page or change
password in account
settings. If forgot
password, then
recovery link will be
sent to email. After
clicking link, input
new password, save
password.

Post/Upload Enable Admin/Landlord Input House details New house is

new house admin/landlord to has access to the Upload picture. uploaded in the
upload a vacant system and Save system under new
house for rent or authority to upload houses web page.
sale into the a new house for
system sale
Update House Enable Select House to edit Updated
details Admin/Landlord Admin/landlord is Insert the new changes information will be
to update House logged in and has Save changes saved and
details to current clearance to update displayed.
status House details

View House Enable Customers Customer/tenant is Select House listing List of available
list to view list of all logged in to the vacant Houses will
vacant Houses system be displayed

Search rent Enable employee Employee is Select search by Search result

records by to search rent logged in category. matching input

Display Enable Admin to Select view Landlords

Landlords report view the landlords Admin is logged in rent report
Landlord’s report
report and has the
will be displayed in
clearance to view
a new window
landlord report
 CHAPTER FIVE

IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING

5.1 Implementation:
The online House Rental management system in used in the following modules that can be
implemented.
Modules Details:
The Implemented modules in given below
1.Registration/Login module
2.Booking Module
3 House Posting Module
4.Feedback and contact module
Login modules:
Login modules is implemented in the online House Rental Management to only allowed a
register person. we have to use this module in security purpose related on the detail.
Registration modules:
The online House Rental management system in Registration modules is used to collect the
user personal information. It has to collect the address, name, phone number also. The
registration module details are stored in the database.
Booking Modules
Online House Rental Management System has an implementation of House Booking where
only registered members are allowed to view and book house/office/land/home for rental or lease

Post House Module:

House Rental Management System has been implemented with House posting module where the
seller/landlord or system administrator can upload house/property details for sale or rent
5.2 TESTING

Testing is the process of detecting errors. Testing performs a very critical role for quality
assurance and for ensuring the reliability of software. The results of testing are used later on
during maintenance also.
Psychology of Testing
The aim of testing is often to demonstrate that a program works by showing that it has no
errors. The basic purpose of testing phase is to detect the errors that may be present in the
program. Hence one should not start testing with the intent of showing that a program works, but
the intent should be to show that a program doesn’t work. Testing is the process of executing a
program with the intent of finding errors.
Testing Objectives:
The main objective of testing is to uncover a host of errors, systematically and with minimum
effort and time. Stating formally, we can say
Testing is a process of executing a program with the intent of finding an error.
A successful test is one that uncovers an as yet undiscovered error.
A good test case is one that has a high probability of finding error, if it exists.
The tests are inadequate to detect possibly present errors.
The software more or less confirms to the quality and reliable standards.
Levels of Testing:
In order to uncover the errors, present in different phases we have the concept of levels of
testing. The basic levels of testing are as shown below…
Client Needs
Requirements
Design
Code
5.3 Installation and project description

The database as it is developed by MySQL can be installed only by using the export
and import concepts.
Using XAMP Server Upload the system files to the htdocs directory then open your server in the
browser by typing http://localhost/phpmyadmin to import the database
The project can be described by the screenshots in the project as follows
Home page

House Listing
Tenant Registration panel
Posting House
Search Property
Subscribe button
Sign Up form
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CONCLUSION

6.1 Conclusion

House Rental business has emerged with a new goodies compared to the past experience where
every activity concerning House rental business is limited to a physical location only. Even
though the physical location has not been totally eradicated; the nature of functions and how
these functions are achieved has been reshaped by the power of internet. Nowadays, customers
can reserve book/buy/sale House online, rent House online, and have the house contracted
successfully without any sweat once the customer is a registered member of the House Rental
Management System.
The web based House rental system has offered an advantage to both Tenants as well as
Landlords to efficiently and effectively manage the business and satisfies customers’ need at the
click of a button.
6.2 Limitation of the system

The system at present does not take care of the money payment methods, as the
consolidated constructs need SSL standards and are critically to be initiated in the first face, the
application of the credit card transactions is applied as a developmental phase in the coming
days. The system needs more elaborative technicality for its inception and evolution.

6.3 REFERENCES

Books Used:

• Software Engineering - R.S. Pressman

• PHP for Dummies

• PHP Beginners Guide by McGraw-Hill Publication

• JavaScript by McGraw-Hill Publication

References Used:

• http://www.resgroup.net/

• http://www.a1realestate.solutions

• Wikipedia.org

• www.w3schools.com

• www.webcampzg.org

GLOSSARY

1. MB Megabytes
2. GB Gigabytes
3. SQL Structural Query language
4. Admin Administrator
5. RAM Random Memory
6. PHP Hypertext preprocessor
7. HTML Hypertext Markup Language