Studify — Student Management (PHP + MySQL)

A simple student management app I built as a beginner to learn core PHP with MySQL: authentication, CRUD, file uploads, and basic page structure.

What’s inside

• Login/Logout (basic session auth)
• Students CRUD: add, list, edit, delete
• Image upload for student profile (stored in uploads/)
• Minimal, clean UI with plain PHP

Quick start (XAMPP)

1. Copy/clone this folder into your XAMPP web root (e.g. C:/xampp/htdocs/student_management).
2. Start Apache and MySQL in the XAMPP Control Panel.
3. Create a database in phpMyAdmin (e.g. student_management) and import seed.sql.
4. Update database credentials in config/db.php to match your MySQL setup.
5. Ensure the uploads/ folder is writable.
6. (Optional) Visit http://localhost/student_management/create-admin.php to create your first admin.
7. Open http://localhost/student_management/ in your browser.

Project structure

• auth/ – login/logout
• config/ – DB connection and path settings
• helpers/ – helper functions
• includes/ – shared header/footer
• students/ – add, edit, list, delete
• public/ – screenshots used in this README
• uploads/ – uploaded student images
• seed.sql – starter database schema/data

Why this project

Learning goals:

• Practice procedural PHP with MySQL (mysqli prepared statements)
• Handle forms, validation, sessions, and file uploads
• Organize a small PHP app with reusable includes

Notes

• This is a beginner learning project. Security/hardening and advanced patterns are intentionally minimal.
• Feel free to fork and improve things like password policies, input validation, CSRF protection, and error handling.