Design och implementering av ett webbaserat personalhanteringssystem

Sammanfattning: Quickmatch is a company that recruits students to other companies that need temporary workers. Today all administration is done by hand, which is very time demanding and therefore inefficient. Employees send assignment reports by e-mail about the working hours and breaks to the administration office. Since these reports are handled manually, there is a great need for an automated system that makes the company more scalable. The purpose of this work was to solve the defined problem, i. e. increase the efficiency of the assignment administration by automation. In practical terms the solution was described as a web based information system. The requirements of such a system is high. Properties like compatibility with future software, platform independence and security are particulary important. Also aspects like usability and cost effectiveness influence the system design. The technology that was chosen was the web server Apache, the database server MySQL and the scripting language PHP. Because of the importance of the aspect of platform independence, no special platform came to attention; the goal is a working system on all platforms. The information system on the client side is based on normal browser software. No extra plugins should be needed for being able to use it. The decision was based on the goal that you should be able to use it on any computer connected to the Internet. To achieve the aspects of future and platform independent compatibility the page description language XHTML 1.0 Strict was chosen in combination of CSS. The language JavaScript was also selected to create DHTML functionality. On the server side the aspects of future and platform independent compatibility made the decision of minimizing dependencies. No other software than Apache, MySQL and PHP should be nessecary on the server. To minimize the dependency a SMTP client was written with PHP's socket functions. The mail function was used to send forgotten passwords to employees and to send assignment reminder messages. The database model that was chosen was UML. The decision was made because of the model's frequent uses for both academic purposes and in the industry. It was also because of the need for a model to guarantee an efficient system design. The work resulted in a information system that solved the defined problem. The assignment administration was made more efficient than before, which reduces the burden of work. The general aspects of the system was considered within acceptable limits. That consideration was based on the achieved specifications of requirements and the results of the testphase of the implemented system. Because of the limited time frame the system was reduced to only solve the defined problem. The design of the system does however have the capabilities for future extensions.