Automated University Timetable Generation System using PHP

Abstract

The proposed work focuses on preparing the timetable for university departments and scheduling examinations for each semester. Most universities today have multiple departments, each offering different undergraduate and postgraduate programs. To manage all these courses effectively and without any chaos or confusion, a proper timetable or schedule is essential. Proper scheduling, with reserved time slots for each subject, avoids confusion among students and lecturers, preventing overlaps in class timings for the subjects assigned to each teacher. Since manual timetable preparation is very tedious, time-consuming, and prone to conflicts, there is a need for an automatic timetable scheduler that reduces human intervention. To address this need, the proposed method introduces an automatic timetable generator using PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS. PHP is used as the programming language, MySQL for the database, and HTML and CSS for the frontend. The system is integrated with Oracle for advanced data management.