CourseRecommender

A web-based academic course recommendation and administration system built with HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and a database-backed authentication flow. The project combines a student-facing recommendation experience with administrative controls for managing access, viewing information, and supporting reporting.

Users can register, log in, recover account access, open a dashboard, and move through the course-recommendation workflow. The system also includes a separate administrator login and dashboard, authentication checks, session handling, database connectivity, API-style backend logic, and chart/reporting components. The project demonstrates how a front-end interface connects to PHP application logic and persistent database data in a multi-role web system.

• User registration and login
• Password recovery interface
• User dashboard
• Course recommendation workflow
• Separate administrator login
• Administrative dashboard
• Authentication checks and protected access
• Session handling
• PHP backend/API logic
• Database connection and persistent data
• Charts and reporting support
• Responsive web interface

Key files include:

• index.html — main entry page
• register.html / register.php — user registration
• login.php — user authentication
• dashboard.html — user dashboard
• admin-login.html / admin_login.php — administrator authentication
• admin.html / admin_api.php — administrative interface and API logic
• auth_check.php — authentication validation
• db_connect.php — database connection setup
• chart.js — charting library used by the project
• images/ — image assets

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Database-backed authentication
• Sessions and access control
• Chart/reporting components

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Place the project in a PHP-capable local web server environment such as XAMPP, WAMP, or Laragon.
3. Configure the database connection in db_connect.php for your local database.
4. Start the web server and database service.
5. Open the project through your local server URL.

This repository is an academic/software project. Review database credentials and environment-specific settings before deploying it publicly.