Barber's Club 💈

A Full-Stack Salon Management Web Application

Built as a mini-project during my Bachelor's degree (2020), this is a complete salon booking and management system built with PHP, MySQL, and Bootstrap.

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🚀 Features

Customer Side

• User registration and login
• Browse services and packages with pricing
• Book appointments (date, time, stylist)
• Home service booking
• Real-time chat with salon workers
• Payment integration
• View and manage bookings
• User profile management
• Leave feedback

Admin Dashboard

• Manage services and packages (add/edit/delete)
• Manage workers (add/edit/delete with photo upload)
• View all appointments and bookings
• View and reply to customer queries
• Email notifications via PHPMailer
• User management
• Revenue/booking overview

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🛠 Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	PHP 7.4
Database	MySQL / MariaDB
Frontend	HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 4, jQuery
Admin UI	Material Dashboard (Bootstrap)
Email	PHPMailer
Auth	PHP Sessions + password_hash()

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🔒 Security

• All database queries use prepared statements (no SQL injection)
• Passwords stored using password_hash(PASSWORD_DEFAULT) (bcrypt)
• Input sanitisation on all form fields
• File upload validation (type + size checks)
• Session-based authentication

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⚙️ Setup Instructions

Requirements

• PHP 7.4+
• MySQL / MariaDB
• A local server: XAMPP, WAMP, or MAMP

Steps

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/Chithranjaly/barbersclub.git
   cd barbersclub

2. Import the database

   • Open phpMyAdmin
   • Create a new database called salon
   • Import salon.sql

3. Configure the database connection

   Copy .env.example to .env and fill in your credentials:

   DB_HOST=localhost
   DB_USER=root
   DB_PASS=
   DB_NAME=salon
   

   Or edit salon/dbconnect.php directly for local dev.

4. Run the project

   • Place the salon/ folder inside your server's web root (e.g. htdocs/ for XAMPP)
   • Visit http://localhost/salon/

Demo Login Credentials

Role	Email	Password
Admin	admin@barbersclub.com	Admin@123
User	user@barbersclub.com	User@123

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📁 Project Structure

salon/
├── index.php              # Public homepage
├── login.php              # Login page
├── registration.php       # User registration
├── dbconnect.php          # Database connection
├── admin/
│   └── html/              # Admin dashboard pages
│       ├── adminhomepage.php
│       ├── addservice.php
│       ├── addworkers.php
│       ├── viewusers.php
│       └── ...
├── pretty/                # Customer-facing pages (logged-in)
│   ├── index.php
│   ├── bookings.php
│   ├── services.php
│   └── ...
└── chat/
    └── index.php          # Live chat feature

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📸 Screenshots

(Add screenshots here after deployment)

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📚 What I Learned

• Full MVC-style separation between admin and customer views
• PHP session management and role-based access control
• Relational database design with foreign key constraints
• File upload handling and validation
• Email integration using PHPMailer
• Responsive UI design with Bootstrap

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👤 Author

Chithranjaly — MSc Computing Graduate
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