🚌 Bus Reservation System

A full-featured online Bus Reservation System developed using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This project enables users to book, cancel, and manage their bus tickets seamlessly while providing admins a robust interface for managing routes, buses, and passengers.

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📑 Table of Contents

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• 📌 About the Project
• 🧰 Features
• 🛠 Built With
• ⚙️ Tech Stack
• 🚀 Installation Guide
• 📚 Documentation & References
• 📬 Contact

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📌 About the Project

The Bus Reservation System is a dynamic web application designed to automate ticket booking, scheduling, and reservation management. The system provides user authentication, bus search by route, real-time seat availability, ticket booking, and admin dashboards for managing routes, buses, users, and payments.

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🧰 Features

Module	Description
🔐 User Authentication	Secure Login/Register for Users and Admins
🚌 Bus Listings	View available buses by routes, time, and seats
📅 Booking System	Book seats and receive booking confirmation
❌ Cancel Reservation	Cancel booked tickets with refund eligibility
🧾 Ticket View & Print	View, download, or print ticket as PDF
⚙️ Admin Dashboard	Manage buses, routes, users, tickets
🔍 Search & Filter	Find buses based on routes, timings, or seats
📢 Notification System	Alerts for confirmation, cancellation, and route changes

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🛠 Built With

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⚙️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
👨‍🎨 Frontend	HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
🧠 Backend	PHP
💾 Database	MySQL
🔗 API/Lib	Twilio (for SMS)
🧰 Tool	VS Code, XAMPP

🚀 Installation Guide

🧰 Prerequisites

• XAMPP or LAMP/WAMP
• PHP 7.x or above
• MySQL Server
• Internet Connection (for Twilio integration if enabled)

⚙️ Setup Steps

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/arunsanjeevms/bus-reservation-system.git

2. Move to htdocs (XAMPP folder)

   cp -r bus-reservation-system /xampp/htdocs/

3. Import the SQL Database

   • Open phpMyAdmin
   • Create a database named bus_reservation
   • Import bus_reservation.sql from DATABASE FILE folder

4. Run the Project

   http://localhost/bus-reservation-system/

📚 Documentation & References

📖 Core Documents

📄 Topic	🔗 Link
System Report	Online Bus Ticket Booking System – Scribd
Research Base	Online Bus Reservation – ResearchGate
Project Thesis	AJU University MCA Report
SRS Document	Software Requirements Specification

📚 Technical References

• Database: Silberschatz, Korth & Sudarshan – Database System Concepts (7th Ed.), McGraw-Hill
• Web Dev: Welling & Thomson – PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Ed.), Addison-Wesley
• PHP: Larry Ullman – PHP for the Web (5th Ed.), Peachpit
• MySQL Docs: MySQL Official Documentation
• PHP Docs: PHP Official Manual

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📬 Contact