Sugarcane Farm Management System

Abstract

This project is aimed at developing a complete farm management system for use in the sugar production industry which will allow the factory to quickly and easily manage an online menu which customer can browse and use to place orders with just a few clicks. There will be a system administrator who will have the right to add and manage user accounts, a manager who will be managing machines and orders and last but not least a supervisor who will be dealing specifically with pending deliveries and orders. The customer will be in a position to view the products, register and place an order. There will be a confirmation receipt for each and every order made by the customer which can be printed. The development of this system will be based on SDLC with PHP and HTML as the programming languages while MySQL server as the database of the system. HTML language is advantageous due to its easy to use and learn validation properties while MySQL has better advanced features and properties, has good security, is open source and has cross platform operability. The advantages of using PHP programming language in developing this system include:  It is a stable open source language developed and maintained by a large group of PHP developers which help in creating a support community and abundant extension library.  It’s easy and quick to learn and use  Can be run on many platforms thus easy for users to find hosting service  It has built-in database connection modules which makes it easy to connect to the database. On the other hand, the disadvantage of PHP programming language is security since it is open sourced, so all people can see the source code and if there are bugs in the source code, it can be used by people to explore the weakness of PHP.