STUDENT ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM

A web-based online voting system developed using PHP and MySQL for conducting secure college elections.

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FEATURES

- Student registration and login

- Admin dashboard to manage elections

- Secure voting process (one vote per user)

- Email notification system using PHPMailer

- Result generation and vote counting

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TECH STACK

- PHP

- MySQL

- HTML

- CSS

- JavaScript

- PHPMailer

- FPDF

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PROJECT STRUCTURE

- admin/ – Admin panel files

- assets/ – Images and static files

- includes/ – Configuration and mail handling

- database/ – SQL file for database setup

- fpdf/ – PDF generation library

- phpmailer/ – Email handling library

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INSTALLATION

1. Install XAMPP

2. Copy project folder into htdocs

3. Import database/voting\_system.sql into phpMyAdmin

4. Start Apache and MySQL

5. Open http://localhost/student-online-voting-system

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AUTHOR

Darshan P

MCA Final Year Student