Urban Services

Urban Services is a web-based platform that facilitates seamless interactions between customers and service providers, offering a comprehensive solution for service discovery, booking, and management.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Screenshots
• Technology Stack
• Setup Guide
• Contributing
• License

Introduction

Urban Services aims to simplify the process of finding and booking services by connecting customers with service providers. The platform provides a user-friendly interface, efficient workflows for service providers, and transparent communication channels.

Features

• User-friendly registration and login processes.
• Seamless service discovery and booking for customers.
• Efficient workforce management for service providers.
• Real-time notifications for service updates.
• Robust feedback system for customers.
• Responsive and intuitive design.

Screenshots

Technology stack

• HTML
• CSS
• PHP
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• MySQL

Setup guide

1. Clone the repository into any folder inside xampp/htdocs

   git clone https://github.com/vinyas03/Urban-Services.git

2. In the project folder, install the PHPMailer library via Composer

   composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

3. Start the Apache HTTP Server and MySQL server via XAMPP

4. Open phpMyAdmin and create urban services database

5. Import the given .sql dump into the database

6. In the browser, go to localhost/Urban assuming you have cloned into Urban folder in htdocs

7. The project should run as expected in the local dev server

PHPMailer usage

Email features are used in the application to send confirmation emails to the customer by the service provider.

1. In the serviceprovider/includes folder, create a new file called mail-credentials.php

2. In that, enter your secret email credentials like email, password through which you are going to send emails to the customers

<?php
$smtpServer = ''; //SMTPserver (for example: smtp.gmail.com)
$senderEmail = ''; //Sender (your) email
$password = ''; //Sender password
$senderName ='Urban Services'; //Sender name
?>

3. This file is included by default in the sendbookingmail.php so you don't have to

4. You can always edit other email configurations like SMTP Port, reciever informations etc. in the sendbookingmail.php

5. For testing out the confirmation mails recieved, you can use free temporary email providers online and use them instead of customer email.