Modern Parking Management System

This is a smart and modern parking management system that helps in swift and efficient management of parking lots/spots, available for multiple users with visual insights.

Features

• Authentication and role-based access.
• Admin and User Dashboards with Lot/Spot & Reservation/Release/History Management.
• Real time Parking Cost calculation based on timestamps.
• Spot Availability status and dynamic updates.
• Admin View for history of each parking spots, and information of all the users having their account in this web application.
• Search functionality for both the user and admin.
• Responsive UI/styling and visually appealing summary using bootstrap and chart.js for both user and admin.

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📁 Project Structure

/parking-management-system(Git Hub Repository)
└──/parking_app_24f3000211
    │
    ├── /instance
    |   └── parking_manage.sqlite3
    |
    ├── /templates
    │   ├── admin_dash.html
    │   ├── edit.html
    │   ├── login.html
    │   ├── register.html
    │   ├── spot_hist.html
    │   ├── summary.html
    │   ├── user_dash.html
    │   └── users.html
    │
    ├── /controllers
    │   └── controllers.py
    │
    ├── /static
    │   ├── limg.jpg
    │   ├── style.css
    │   ├── style2.css
    │   ├── cost.js
    │   └── summarise.js
    │
    ├── /models
    │   └── models.py
    |
    ├── README.md
    │
    └── app.py  

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🚀 Technical Stack

This project utilizes the following technologies:

• Backend: Flask (lightweight Python framework)
• Database: SQLAlchemy (ORM for database management)(SQLite DB)
• Frontend: HTML/CSS, Bootstrap (responsive web design), Chart.JS (for summary)
• Version Control: Git & GitHub

🔧 Libraries:

• Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask, Jinja2

🛠 Tools:

• IDE: Visual Studio Code

📦 Package Management:

• Pip: Install dependencies from dependencies.txt

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💻 Setup Instructions

1. Install Python

To run this project, you’ll need to have Python 3.7+ installed on your system.

-n, make sure to check the box to Add Python to PATH.

• Windows: Download Python and check Add Python to PATH.

• macOS: brew install python

• Linux: sudo apt install python3

  To confirm Python is installed, run this in your terminal:

  python --version

2. Clone the repository

  -git clone https://github.com/24f3000211/parking-management-system.git

3. Set Up a Virtual Environment

A virtual environment is recommended to keep project dependencies isolated.

1. Create a Virtual Environment:

   In your project’s root directory, run the following command to create the virtual environment:

   python -m venv venv

   This will create a venv directory where the isolated Python environment will reside.

2. Activate the Virtual Environment:

   • Windows:

    venv\Scripts\activate

   • macOS/Linux:

    source venv/bin/activate

   After activation, your terminal prompt should change to something like:

   (venv) $

4. Install Dependencies

pip install -r dependencies.txt

5. Run the Project

    -cd parking_app_24f3000211
    -python app.py

The app should now be running.

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! Issue Log

• filter_by() failed silently on None fields when checking for NOT NULL.
• Reservation cost logic error due to accessing dictionary key before formation of one such.
• Chart used repeated colors with limited backgroundColor array.
• Chart wasn't responsive without responsive: true.
• JS errors occurred when HTML element with data-* was missing.
• Chart data not passed correctly caused rendering to fail silently.
• Jinja templating errors were caught via app.debug = True logs.

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👤 Author

Kaushik Harsha

• GitHub: @24f3000211

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