Hello guys, I've been a member of nairaland for almost 5 years, and I don't post or comment, however during my visits here, I noticed the rate at which people are requesting for school management systems and as such, have decided to create an open source school management aystem, which would be written in PHP (codeigniter) frame work.....I have a list of modules I'm going to add to it, I want to know if there are other modules I might need to add... the modules are

1.) Students portal...takes care of course reg, fees payment, printing of receipt, transcript requests, and downloading of results
2.) Parents portal....where parents can check their wards details and download results
3.) Teachers portal....where they can view all courses they are to teach that semester, courses they have taught, as well as those studentfa who registered for their courses
4.) Level adviser, where the level adviser approves all the courses of people in his level
5.) Hod panel, where the hod sees all the activities of his/ her department and also approves registration
6.) Deans portal....where the dean sees all activities of his colledge/ faculty and approve registration
7.) Registrars portal, where she does final course registration approval
8.) Staff portal, where starts change thier details, revieve messages, send messages e.t.c
9.) Trade center, where students and lecturers of each school can sell and buy items
10.) Resource center, where students and teachers can download books, videos, and tutorials

Note: if you any module that could be of use, please feel free to tell me, and of u think there is anyway you can help make work faster, feel free to contact me on WhatsApp +2348052016214

Bro, u gonna teach? Abi u 1 learn? If na teach u wan teach, bro I am on board. Although I am a PHP novice.

I want to build it from the scratch and open source it, I'm asking if there are any other modules I should add to it....I don't have enough time to teach it, as I also have to go to work

Why not use modern framework? CI! Belongs to the past era of PHP

babatope88:
Why not use modern framework? CI! Belongs to the past era of PHP

I didn't know it still existed come to the Yii world, there's Open school if you're honest about it being open source and free for all, set up a repo and we can work together at our free time to build such, you can also cash out by making support from it, that's what devs do these days.

Pcguru, do contact me, I'm using codeigniter because I feel the framework is good enough....been using codeigniter and I havnt been having issues with it, started the project already...besides they are all the same MVC modelling...and yes am serious about being open source

Matthew80, sure we can work together on it as a team, once you're interested, I have no problem with that, please do send me a message on my WhatsApp +2348052016214, or drop yours for me to contact you..

sleepingdemon:
Pcguru, do contact me, I'm using codeigniter because I feel the framework is good enough....been using codeigniter and I havnt been having issues with it, started the project already...besides they are all the same MVC modelling...and yes am serious about being open source

Yes they are allMVC but no it's not interopeable with other PHP packages and it doesn't follow PSR Conventions, in Yii2 i can take Symfony and Laravel Packages and use them but not in CI and it supports PHP 5.2 that's too backwards. you're missing out a lot honestly, look at Open School there's an existing stuff.

Codeigniter supports PHP 5.5, tried codeigniter 3.0? Yes there's an existing one on open school, but with limitations, how about offering their paid version in mine as open source?

sleepingdemon:
Codeigniter supports PHP 5.5, tried codeigniter 3.0? Yes there's an existing one on open school, but with limitations, how about offering their paid version in mine as open source?

Obviously that's a given, what i mean is that it was built with PHP 5.2 in mind, meaning it doesn't have support for Namespace PHP5.3, and PHP 5.3 and upwards features, I evaluated it before because I was to take up a CI Project but i rejected it because as far as am concerned it's outdated CI 4 is what should be standard.

Anyway I am derailing the thread by taking you from your main point, I wanted to say why not take an existing open source and fork it and add features on top of it, or even strip out features not necessary, Open School was built in Yii and each part is a module running independently just like your CI controllers.

anyway wish you all the best, because most of the school packages out there are bloated with features most Nigerian schools will never use.

Thanks a lot, I went through the open school now, and noticed, I have developed further than where their free edition basically stops in some aspect.....once again, thanks a lot

@pcguru1 Please can I get symfony2.7 installer from you?

matthew80:
@pcguru1

Please can I get symfony2.7 installer from you?

symfony ke I no sabi symfony and i don't intend to at least maybe not now it's too complicated and am not sure if it's really fast out of the box, but you should be able to install via Composer that's the preferred way these days