Advanced Parking Management System

Overview

A full-stack, browser-based parking management system covering slot allocation, vehicle entry and exit, and fee calculation. A PHP back end persists parking records while a JavaScript-enhanced front end keeps daily operation fast and clear.

The problem

Manual, paper-based tracking of parking slots gets error-prone fast: double allocation, no clear record of when a vehicle entered, and fees calculated by hand. The system needed to make the current state of every slot obvious at a glance and remove manual fee math entirely.

Key decision

Fee calculation runs off the stored entry timestamp rather than a client-side timer, so the charge is always recomputed correctly even if a session is closed out later than expected — the source of truth lives in the database, not in the browser. Slot state (free or occupied) is derived from active records instead of a separate flag, so the two can never drift out of sync with each other.

Main features

• Parking-slot allocation
• Vehicle entry and exit records
• Parking-fee calculation
• Record management
• User-friendly navigation
• Front-end and back-end integration

Tech stack

Demonstrates: full-stack integration, CRUD workflows, practical system design.