KEMI-TORNIO UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES : Design and Implementation of Cafeteria Menu System Based on PHP

Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences, Technology Degree Programme Information Technology Name Chen Shikai Title Design and Implementation of Cafeteria Menu System Based on PHP Type of Study Bachelor’s Thesis Date 28 December 2011 Pages 41 + 5 appendices Instructor Thai Bui, Antti Niemela This project was established on the bases of website development. The system was designed for the cafeteria (Aurinko) of Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences which focuses to two kinds of user groups, and the characteristics of the project are described in the following paragraphs. Firstly, the application allows the cafeteria authority to visit, modify, add and remove the foods in a menu, and then staff can manage the menus from Monday to Saturday. In addition, if the certain menu has not been edited in the current week, the system checks the menus every day and reminds the staff by E-mail. Secondly, the students can scan the menu list of current week, and instead the students can quickly find a current day lunch item. This item will be highlighted in the menu view. If a current week menu needs to be printed or saved, students can also download it as a word document. The whole project adopts Browser/Server (B/S) pattern. Its development mainly includes the web design of browsing page and the background of management. The system was established as an operational environment by using Apache and PHP, and combined with MySQL, the relationship of data connection can be simply managed. The jQuery Mobile was selected as a powerful tool to design the user interface of the project. XML was used to translate the language in the same page.