Online Examination System Final Year PHP Project

• Admin dashboard for this final year project with institution metrics and quick actions
• Brand and site settings with site name, footer, contact info, about text, logo, and favicon upload
• Admin profile update with name, email, username, and password validation
• Faculty CRUD with status toggle, password reset, and delete
• Student CRUD with status toggle, password reset, and delete
• Course, subject, and exam category management
• Exam create, edit, delete, schedule, duration, marks, passing marks, instructions, and status controls
• MCQ question bank management with four options, correct key, marks, and ordering
• Result filtering by student, exam, and subject
• Submitted attempt view and erroneous result deletion
• Notice create, edit, delete, and audience targeting for faculty/students
• Feedback listing, role filtering, message editing, and deletion
• CSV exports for students, faculty, exams, results, subjects, and questions

• Student registration and login in this final year project using username or email
• Student dashboard with course-based exams, availability windows, and attempt status
• Exam instruction page before start
• Timed answer sheet
• Exam submission and auto-submit behavior when time expires as implemented
• Results list and single-result review
• View obtained marks, pass/fail status, and question review where available
• Notices list and notice detail
• Feedback submission and own feedback management
• Profile update and password change
• Logout functionality

• Faculty dashboard in this final year project scoped to assigned subjects and owned exams
• Manage exams linked to faculty account
• Manage exam questions
• View relevant student cohorts
• View attempts and results
• Per-attempt result detail where implemented
• Notice management for faculty role
• Feedback management where allowed
• Faculty profile maintenance
• Public landing page included in this final year project
• Central Student, Faculty, and Admin entry points
• Session-based role login
• Passwords stored as bcrypt hashes
• Course alignment for exam access
• Exam availability based on active status, date, start time, and end time
• Server-side grading logic
• SQL install file with schema and seed data
• Branding uploads under assets/uploads/
• Supports subfolder deployment using PUBLIC_BASE
• Suitable for final year project demo, viva, source code review, and report preparation

1. Create a MySQL database for this final year project:
   CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS exam_system CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
2. Import the schema and seed data:
   mysql -u root -p exam_system < sql/install.sql
3. Configure database credentials in config/database.php or environment variables:
   • OES_DB_HOST
   • OES_DB_NAME
   • OES_DB_USER
   • OES_DB_PASS
4. Ensure assets/uploads/ exists and is writable.
5. For subfolder deployment, update PUBLIC_BASE in config/app.php if needed.
6. Run the final year PHP project using PHP built-in server:
   php -S localhost:8080
7. Open these URLs:
   • Site: http://localhost:8080/
   • Admin: http://localhost:8080/admin/login.php
   • Faculty: http://localhost:8080/faculty/login.php
   • Student: http://localhost:8080/student/login.php

Administrator

• Username: admin
• Email: [email protected]
• Password: password

Faculty Examples
All use password: password

• faculty_sarah / [email protected] — active
• faculty_james / [email protected] — active
• faculty_emily / [email protected] — active
• faculty_michael / [email protected] — active
• faculty_lisa / [email protected] — active
• faculty_david / [email protected] — inactive
• faculty_anna / [email protected] — active
• faculty_robert / [email protected] — active

Student Examples
All use password: password

• student_alex / [email protected] — active
• student_maria / [email protected] — active
• student_chris / [email protected] — active
• student_priya / [email protected] — active
• student_jordan / [email protected] — active
• student_taylor / [email protected] — inactive
• student_sam / [email protected] — active
• student_riley / [email protected] — active