How utsavsah75/library_project works
This is a PHP library-management application: administrators manage the catalog and members, while library workflows cover issuing and returning books; student-facing pages provide registration and borrowing. The clearest documented navigation is the admin menu, and the excerpts show PHP pages using a shared MySQL connection. The README instead describes sending email with PHPMailer, which is also present in the code. Several circulation and member modules are unsampled, so their connections are left unverified rather than inferred as a pipeline.
Main entry points: admin_header.php Admin navigation · conn.php MySQL connection · add_book.php Book administration · manage_author.php Author administration
Components 20
Access and navigation
- Admin navigation
admin_header.php - Admin access check
check_admin.php - Admin login
admin_login.php - Admin dashboard
dashboard.php
Catalog management
- Book administration
add_book.php - Book listings
manage_book.php - Author administration
manage_author.php - Category administration
manage_category.php - Book operations
admin_bookserver.php
Circulation
- Issue management
issue_book.php - Issue records
issuebook_list.php - Issue operations
issuebook_server.php - Book returns
return.php
Members and messaging
- Student administration
reg_students.php - Student registration
user_form.php - Email delivery
sendmail.php
Persistence
- MySQL connection
conn.php - Library database
Other components
- Administrator
- Student
Connections 22
- Administrator → Admin navigation: uses
admin_header.php - Admin navigation → Admin dashboard: links to
admin_header.php - Admin navigation → Book administration: links to
admin_header.php - Admin navigation → Book listings: links to
admin_header.php - Admin navigation → Author administration: links to
admin_header.php - Admin navigation → Category administration: links to
admin_header.php - Admin navigation → Issue management: links to
admin_header.php - Admin navigation → Student administration: links to
admin_header.php - Book administration → Admin access check: requires
add_book.php - Author administration → Admin navigation: includes
manage_author.php - Author administration → MySQL connection: uses
manage_author.php - Book administration → MySQL connection: uses
add_book.php - Student registration → MySQL connection: uses
user_form.php - Student registration → Email delivery: sends email
- MySQL connection → Library database: connects to
conn.php - Issue management → MySQL connection: uses
issue_book.php - Book returns → MySQL connection: uses
return.php - Student → Student registration: registers
- Student → Issue management: borrows
- Book listings → Book operations: uses
- Issue records → Issue operations: uses
issuebook_list.php - Admin login → Admin access check: authenticates