Parkwood Vale Library
Parkwood Vale Library serves the valley's southern end, and all library services are available on a smaller scale here. Public computers, a black and white printer, and a photocopier are available.
Parkwood Vale Library serves the valley's southern end, and all library services are available on a smaller scale here. Public computers, a black and white printer, and a photocopier are available.
During this project there have been several external libraries used, I will acknowledge each library and its use here.
Primarily used for CSS Bootstrap has been included within the library system to give a professional look, Bootstrap has a JavaScript element
that manages input on form fields ensuring the form isn't submitted until all the required fields are complete.
This free WYSIWYG editor transforms a simple text area into a rich text field, this is used on the edit book function.
This is used on each page of the site, it provides an improved toast notification system allowing feedback between the site and its users.
I have imported the font Lexend Deca to use within my website, I have downloaded the .woff file from google and stored it on the remote server
to speed up loading times.
I have used the Google Books API during the add book function to pull all the books information from Google, this saves the user
time when entering book details. It includes the:
The information is stored on the local database rather then constantly accessing Googles API to improve load times.
On the index page, the aid with locating the library I have included a Google Map using the Google Maps API
I have used PHPMailer as an upgraded version of the standard mail() function in PHP as it allows for SMTP integration.
SMTP is required to ensure delivery to @gmail.com accounts as well as @outlook.com accounts.
I have coded the whole project using Sublime Text 3, with the SFTP package installed.
When working with the database I have used Heidi SQL to connect to and manage my PHPMyAdmin based MySQL database.
When developing this project I have used UwAmp a portable WAMP stack installed on a memory stick.