International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Development

The proliferation of motor vehicles in urban environments has rendered manual parking management increasingly inadequate, resulting in revenue leakage, operational inefficiency, and poor audit traceability. This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of a web-based Vehicle Parking Management System (VPMS) built on PHP and MySQL. The system automates the complete operational lifecycle of a parking facility: vehicle entry registration with auto-generated unique parking identifiers, real-time tracking of parked and departed vehicles, parking charge computation and assignment, date-range report generation, and income analytics. The application is structured around a three-tier architecture — an HTML5/Bootstrap 3 presentation layer, a PHP 7.x business-logic layer, and a MySQL 5.6 relational data layer — and employs jQuery DataTables for interactive record browsing and Chart.js for dashboard visualisation. The database schema comprises four normalised tables (admin, settings, vcategory, vehicle_info) supporting multi-category vehicle types (Two Wheeler, Four Wheeler, Three Wheeler). Functional testing across 24 test cases confirmed complete coverage of all modules. The paper further analyses current security limitations and proposes a roadmap of future enhancements including prepared-statement-based SQL injection mitigation, bcrypt password hashing, multi-user role management, and hardware (RFID/barrier) integration. Results demonstrate that VPMS substantially reduces manual processing time and provides management-level visibility into parking revenue and occupancy.

Mr.R.Ramakrishnan, A.Shereen Begam,"Design and Development of a Web-Based Vehicle Parking Management System Using PHP and MySQL" International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Development, V9(3): Page(1731-1737) May-June 2026. ISSN: 2581-7175. www.ijsred.com. Published by Scientific and Academic Research Publishing.