Course code: IP401 Course Name : Internship Program III

A
REPORT
ON

“HOTEL MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM”

BY
RAJEEV KR. CHATURVEDI (05JPCS018)

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 The ICFAI Institute of Science and
Technology
(Jaipur)

A Report

On

Hotel Management System

By

Rajeev Kr. Chaturvedi

ID No. 05JPCS018

Approved by:
Dr. O.P. Daga
The Dean, ICFAI Tech, Jaipur

Evaluated by:
Mr. Arun Kumar Saini
Instructor-In-charge

A report submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirement

IP 401 (Internship Program III)

The ICFAI Institute of Science & Technology

Jaipur
February 19, 2009

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my deep sense of gratitude to Dr. O.P. Daga, the Dean, ICFAI
Tech, Jaipur for providing me an opportunity to Internship Program III as per the course
requirements. Words indeed are inadequate to express my deep sense of gratitude to Mr.
Arun Kumar Saini for providing guidance at every stage of our work. It is a great
privilege to have an opportunity to work and learn a lot under his guidance.

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 The ICFAI Institute of Science and Technology

Date of Submission: - February 19, 2009

Title of the project: - HOTEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Name of Student ID. No. Discipline

Rajeev Kr. Chaturvedi 05JPCS018 CSE

Faculty In-charge: - Mr. Arun Kumar Saini

Keyword: - HOTEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract: -
This project deals with the development of a system called ‘Hotel Management System’
to be developed in Visual Basic programming language. To start with, this system
indulges in the task of managing the the general tasks of a hotel like room management,
staf in the hotel, guset check-ins etc.

Signatures of Student Signature of faculty

Date: Date:

Introduction
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Today computer have become an indispensable part of our lives, and when it is ushered
into the fields of hospitality management a new and promising path is open to us.

Visual BAsic lets us write our programs clearly and simply it has decent control flow
facilities so our code can be read straight down the page, it lets us write code that is
compact without being too cryptic; it encourages modularity and good program
organization; and it provides good data-structuring facilities.

The need to develop this system has found its importance, realizing today’s advancement
in technology. It is apparent that today’s fast paced life is totally dependent on automated
working feature.

By using this type of software the Hotel management can keep records of all the
functions and events. This user friendly program delivers a direct interface with users.

So in this project, an effort is being made to develop a system which would provide a
mean to make the Hotel Management very easy without facing any difficulties.

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 Table of Contents

Topics Page Nos.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I
Abstract II
Introduction III

1. The Language Used 7

1.1 Visual Basic 7
1.2 Evolution of Visual Basic 8
1.3 Timeline of Visual Basic (VB1 to VB6) 8
1.4 Language features 10
1.5 Characteristics present in Visual Basic 12
1.6 Derivative languages 13
1.7 Performance and other issues 13
1.8 Other criticisms levelled at Visual Basic 14

2. The Back End 15

2.1 MySQL 15
2.2 Uses 16
2.3 Platforms and interfaces 16
2.4 History 17
2.5 Features 17

3. About the Project 18

3.1 Introduction 18
3.2 Minimum System Requirments 18

4. Snaps of Main Project 19

5. References 27

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 1. The Language Used

1.1 Visual Basic:

Visual Basic (VB) is the third-generation event-driven programming language and

integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming
model. VB is also considered a relatively easy to learn and use programming language,
because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage.

Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development
(RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data
Access Objects DAO, Remote Data Objects RDO, or ActiveX Data Objects ADO, and
creation of ActiveX controls and objects. Scripting languages such as VBA and VBScript
are syntactically similar to Visual Basic, but perform differently.

A programmer can put together an application using the components provided with
Visual Basic itself. Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, but
doing so requires external function declarations.

The final release was version 6 in 1998. Microsoft's extended support ended in March
2008 and the designated successor was Visual Basic .NET (now known simply as Visual
Basic).

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1.2 Evolution of Visual Basic:

VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991. The drag and drop design for creating the user interface
is derived from a prototype form generator developed by Alan Cooper and his company
called Tripod. Microsoft contracted with Cooper and his associates to develop Tripod into
a programmable form system for Windows 3.0, under the code name Ruby (no relation to
the Ruby programming language).

Tripod did not include a programming language at all. Microsoft decided to combine
Ruby with the Basic language to create Visual Basic.

The Ruby interface generator provided the "visual" part of Visual Basic and this was
combined with the "EB" Embedded BASIC engine designed for Microsoft's abandoned
"Omega" database system. Ruby also provided the ability to load dynamic link libraries
containing additional controls (then called "gizmos"), which later became the VBX
interface.

1.3 Timeline of Visual Basic (VB1 to VB6):

• Project 'Thunder' was initiated

• Visual Basic 1.0 (May 1991) was released for Windows at the Comdex/Windows
World trade show in Atlanta, Georgia.

Visual Basic for MS-DOS

• Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS was released in September 1992. The language itself
was not quite compatible with Visual Basic for Windows, as it was actually the
next version of Microsoft's DOS-based BASIC compilers, QuickBASIC and
BASIC Professional Development System. The interface used the "COW"
(Character Oriented Windows) interface, using extended ASCII characters to
simulate the appearance of a GUI.

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• Visual Basic 2.0 was released in November 1992. The programming environment
was easier to use, and its speed was improved. Notably, forms became instantiable
objects, thus laying the foundational concepts of class modules as were later
offered in VB4.
• Visual Basic 3.0 was released in the summer of 1993 and came in Standard and
Professional versions. VB3 included version 1.1 of the Microsoft Jet Database
Engine that could read and write Jet (or Access) 1.x databases.
• Visual Basic 4.0 (August 1995) was the first version that could create 32-bit as
well as 16-bit Windows programs. It also introduced the ability to write non-GUI
classes in Visual Basic. Incompatibilities between different releases of VB4
caused installation and operation problems. While previous versions of Visual
Basic had used VBX controls, Visual Basic now used OLE controls (with files
names ending in .OCX) instead. These were later to be named ActiveX controls.
• With version 5.0 (February 1997), Microsoft released Visual Basic exclusively for
32-bit versions of Windows. Programmers who preferred to write 16-bit programs
were able to import programs written in Visual Basic 4.0 to Visual Basic 5.0, and
Visual Basic 5.0 programs can easily be converted with Visual Basic 4.0. Visual
Basic 5.0 also introduced the ability to create custom user controls, as well as the
ability to compile to native Windows executable code, speeding up calculation-
intensive code execution. A free, downloadable Control Creation Edition was also
released for creation of ActiveX controls. It was also used as an introductory form
of Visual Basic: a regular .exe project could be created and run in the IDE, but not
compiled.
• Visual Basic 6.0 (Mid 1998) improved in a number of areas including the ability
to create web-based applications. VB6 has entered Microsoft's "non-supported
phase" as of March 2008.
• Mainstream Support for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ended on March 31, 2005.
Extended support ended in March 2008. In response, the Visual Basic user
community expressed its grave concern and lobbied users to sign a petition to
keep the product alive. Microsoft has so far refused to change their position on the
matter. Ironically, around this time (2005), it was exposed that Microsoft's new
anti-spyware offering, Microsoft AntiSpyware (part of the GIANT Company
Software purchase), was coded in Visual Basic 6.0. Its replacement, Windows
Defender, was rewritten as C++ code.

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1.4 Language features:

Like the BASIC programming language, Visual Basic was designed to be easy to learn
and use. The language not only allows programmers to create simple GUI applications,
but can also develop complex applications. Programming in VB is a combination of
visually arranging components or controls on a form, specifying attributes and actions of
those components, and writing additional lines of code for more functionality. Since
default attributes and actions are defined for the components, a simple program can be
created without the programmer having to write many lines of code. Performance
problems were experienced by earlier versions, but with faster computers and native code
compilation this has become less of an issue.

Although programs can be compiled into native code executables from version 5
onwards, they still require the presence of runtime libraries of approximately 1 MB in
size. This runtime is included by default in Windows 2000 and later, but for earlier
versions of Windows like 95/98/NT it must be distributed together with the executable.

Forms are created using drag-and-drop techniques. A tool is used to place controls (e.g.,
text boxes, buttons, etc.) on the form (window). Controls have attributes and event
handlers associated with them. Default values are provided when the control is created,
but may be changed by the programmer. Many attribute values can be modified during
run time based on user actions or changes in the environment, providing a dynamic
application. For example, code can be inserted into the form resize event handler to
reposition a control so that it remains centered on the form, expands to fill up the form,
etc. By inserting code into the event handler for a keypress in a text box, the program can
automatically translate the case of the text being entered, or even prevent certain
characters from being inserted.

Visual Basic can create executables (EXE files), ActiveX controls, DLL files, but is
primarily used to develop Windows applications and to interface web database systems.
Dialog boxes with less functionality can be used to provide pop-up capabilities. Controls
provide the basic functionality of the application, while programmers can insert
additional logic within the appropriate event handlers. For example, a drop-down
combination box will automatically display its list and allow the user to select any
element. An event handler is called when an item is selected, which can then execute
additional code created by the programmer to perform some action based on which
element was selected, such as populating a related list.

Alternatively, a Visual Basic component can have no user interface, and instead provide
ActiveX objects to other programs via Component Object Model (COM). This allows for
server-side processing or an add-in module.

The language is garbage collected using reference counting, has a large library of utility
objects, and has basic object oriented support. Since the more common components are
included in the default project template, the programmer seldom needs to specify

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additional libraries. Unlike many other programming languages, Visual Basic is generally
not case sensitive, although it will transform keywords into a standard case configuration
and force the case of variable names to conform to the case of the entry within the
symbol table entry. String comparisons are case sensitive by default, but can be made
case insensitive if so desired.

The Visual Basic compiler is shared with other Visual Studio languages (C, C++), but
restrictions in the IDE do not allow the creation of some targets (Windows model DLL's)
and threading models.

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1.5 Characteristics present in Visual Basic:

Visual Basic has the following traits which differ from C-derived languages:

• Boolean constant True has numeric value −1. This is because the Boolean data
type is stored as a 16-bit signed integer. In this construct −1 evaluates to 16 binary
1s (the Boolean value True), and 0 as 16 0s (the Boolean value False). This is
apparent when performing a Not operation on a 16 bit signed integer value 0
which will return the integer value −1, in other words True = Not False. This
inherent functionality becomes especially useful when performing logical
operations on the individual bits of an integer such as And, Or, Xor and Not. This
definition of True is also consistent with BASIC since the early 1970s Microsoft
BASIC implementation and is also related to the characteristics of CPU
instructions at the time.
• Logical and bitwise operators are unified. This is unlike some C-derived
languages (such as Perl), which have separate logical and bitwise operators. This
again is a traditional feature of BASIC.
• Variable array base. Arrays are declared by specifying the upper and lower bounds
in a way similar to Pascal and Fortran. It is also possible to use the Option Base
statement to set the default lower bound. Use of the Option Base statement can
lead to confusion when reading Visual Basic code and is best avoided by always
explicitly specifying the lower bound of the array. This lower bound is not limited
to 0 or 1, because it can also be set by declaration. In this way, both the lower and
upper bounds are programmable. In more subscript-limited languages, the lower
bound of the array is not variable. This uncommon trait does exist in Visual Basic
.NET but not in VBScript.

• Relatively strong integration with the Windows operating system and the
Component Object Model.
• Banker's rounding as the default behavior when converting real numbers to
integers with the Round function.
• Integers are automatically promoted to reals in expressions involving the normal
division operator (/) so that division of an odd integer by an even integer produces
the intuitively correct result. There is a specific integer divide operator (\) which
does truncate.
• By default, if a variable has not been declared or if no type declaration character
is specified, the variable is of type Variant. However this can be changed with
Deftype statements such as DefInt, DefBool, DefVar, DefObj, DefStr. There are
12 Deftype statements in total offered by Visual Basic 6.0. The default type may
be overridden for a specific declaration by using a special suffix character on the
variable name (# for Double, ! for Single, & for Long, % for Integer, $ for String,
and @ for Currency) or using the key phrase As (type). VB can also be set in a
mode that only explicitly declared variables can be used with the command
Option Explicit.

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1.6 Derivative languages:

Microsoft has developed derivatives of Visual Basic for use in scripting. Visual Basic
itself is derived heavily from BASIC, and subsequently has been replaced with a .NET
platform version.

Some of the derived languages are:

• Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is included in many Microsoft applications

(Microsoft Office), and also in many third-party products like SolidWorks,
AutoCAD, WordPerfect Office 2002, ArcGIS and Sage Accpac ERP. There are
small inconsistencies in the way VBA is implemented in different applications,
but it is largely the same language as VB6 and uses the same runtime library.
• VBScript is the default language for Active Server Pages. It can be used in
Windows scripting and client-side web page scripting. Although it resembles VB
in syntax, it is a separate language and it is executed by vbscript.dll as opposed to
the VB runtime. ASP and VBScript should not be confused with ASP.NET which
uses the .NET Framework for compiled web pages.
• Visual Basic .NET is Microsoft's designated successor to Visual Basic 6.0, and is
part of Microsoft's .NET platform. Visual Basic.Net compiles and runs using the
.NET Framework. It is not backwards compatible with VB6. An automated
conversion tool exists, but for most projects automated conversion is impossible.
• Star Basic is a Visual Basic compatible interpreter included in StarOffice suite,
developed by Sun Microsystems.
• Gambas is a Visual Basic inspired free software programming language for
GNU/Linux. It is not a clone of Visual Basic, but it does have the ability to
convert Visual Basic programs to Gambas.
• KBasic is a Visual Basic inspired free software programming language for Linux,
Mac and Windows. It is not a clone of Visual Basic, but it does have the ability to
convert Visual Basic programs to KBasic.

1.7 Performance and other issues:

Earlier counterparts of Visual Basic (prior to version 5) compiled the code to P-Code or
Pseudo code only. Visual Basic 5 and 6 are able to compile the code to either native or P-
Code as the programmer chooses. The P-Code is interpreted by the language runtime,
also known as virtual machine, implemented for benefits such as portability and small
code. However, it usually slows down the execution by adding an additional layer of
interpretation of code by the runtime although small amounts of code and algorithms can
be constructed to run faster than the compiled native code. Visual Basic applications
require Microsoft Visual Basic runtime MSVBVMxx.DLL, where xx is the relevant
version number, either 50 or 60. MSVBVM60.dll comes as standard with Windows in all
editions after Windows 98 while MSVBVM50.dll comes with all editions after Windows
95. A Windows 95 machine would however require inclusion with the installer of
whichever dll was needed by the program.

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1.8 Other criticisms levelled at Visual Basic editions prior to VB.NET
include:

• Versioning problems associated with various runtime DLL's

• Poor support for object-oriented programming
• Inability to create multi-threaded applications, without resorting to Windows API
calls
• Lack of unicode support
• Inability to create Windows services
• Inability to create console applications
• Variant types have a greater performance and storage overhead than strongly-
typed programming languages

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 2. The Back End

2.1 MySQL:

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software, with over 100 million
copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout its history. With its superior
speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice for Web, Web
2.0, SaaS, ISV, Telecom companies and forward-thinking corporate IT Managers because
it eliminates the major problems associated with downtime, maintenance and
administration for modern, online applications.

Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time
and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, and
packaged software — including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google,
Nokia, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Booking.com.

MySQL is a key part of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python), the fast-
growing open source enterprise software stack. More and more companies are using
LAMP as an alternative to expensive proprietary software stacks because of its lower cost
and freedom from platform lock-in.

The MySQL database is owned, developed and supported by Sun Microsystems, one of
the world's largest contributors to open source software. MySQL was originally founded
and developed in Sweden.

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) which has more than 11
million installations. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a
number of databases.

MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company
MySQL AB, now a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, which holds the copyright to most
of the codebase. The project's source code is available under terms of the GNU General
Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

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2.2 Uses:

MySQL is popular for web applications and acts as the database component of the
LAMP, BAMP, MAMP, SAMP, and WAMP platforms, and for open-source bug tracking
tools like Bugzilla. Its popularity for use with web applications is closely tied to the
popularity of PHP, which is often combined with MySQL. Several high-traffic web sites
(including Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google, Nokia and YouTube) use MySQL for its
data storage and logging of user data.

2.3 Platforms and interfaces:

MySQL is written in C and C++. The SQL parser uses yacc and a home-brewed lexer.
MySQL works on many different system platforms, including AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD, HP-
UX, i5/OS, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris,
eComStation , OS/2 Warp, QNX, IRIX, Solaris, Symbian, SunOS, SCO OpenServer,
SCO UnixWare, Sanos, Tru64, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT,
Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. A port of MySQL to OpenVMS is also
available.

Libraries for accessing MySQL databases are available in all major programming
languages with language-specific APIs. In addition, an ODBC interface called MyODBC
allows additional programming languages that support the ODBC interface to
communicate with a MySQL database, such as ASP or ColdFusion. The MySQL server
and official libraries are mostly implemented in ANSI C/ANSI C++.

To administer MySQL databases one can use the included command-line tool
(commands: mysql and mysqladmin). Also downloadable from the MySQL site are
GUI administration tools: MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser. Both of
the GUI tools are now included in one package called tools/5.0.html MySQL GUI Tools.

In addition to the above-mentioned tools developed by MySQL AB, there are several
other commercial and non-commercial tools available. Examples include SQLyog
Community Edition, a free desktop based GUI tool and phpMyAdmin, a free Web-based
administration interface implemented in PHP.

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2.4 History

Milestones in MySQL development include:

• MySQL was first released internally on 23 May 1995

• Windows version was released on 8 January 1998 for Windows 95 and NT
• Version 3.23: beta from June 2000, production release January 2001
• Version 4.0: beta from August 2002, production release March 2003
• Version 4.1: beta from June 2004, production release October 2004
• Version 5.0: beta from March 2005, production release October 2005.
• Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB on 26 February 2008.
• Version 5.1: production release 27 November 2008

2.5 Features

As of August 2007, MySQL offers MySQL 5.0 in two different variants: the MySQL
Community Server and Enterprise Server. They have a common code base and include
the following features:

• A broad subset of ANSI SQL 99, as well as extensions

• Cross-platform support
• Stored procedures
• Triggers
• Cursors
• Updatable Views
• True VARCHAR support
• INFORMATION SCHEMA
• Strict mode
• X/Open XA distributed transaction processing (DTP) support; two phase commit
as part of this, using Oracle's InnoDB engine
• Independent storage engines (MyISAM for read speed, InnoDB for transactions
and referential integrity, MySQL Archive for storing historical data in little space)
• Transactions with the InnoDB, BDB and Cluster storage engines; savepoints with
InnoDB
• SSL support
• Query caching
• Sub-SELECTs
• Replication with one master per slave, many slaves per master, no automatic
support for multiple masters per slave.
• Full-text indexing and searching using MyISAM engine
• Embedded database library

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 3. About the Project
3.1 Introduction:

The Hotel Management System is a comprehensive software consisting of integrated

modules for various aspects of hotel management. This class of software is often referred
to as Property Management System in the industry. The important modules in the
Software include, Hotel Management Software, Hotel Reservation Software (Billing
Software), Hotel Reception Software and Hotel accounting software. In this lodging
software all modules are tightly integrated. This Hotel management software is developed
for Microsoft Windows operating system.

This is general purpose hospitality software that can be used at hotels, motels, inns,
resorts, lodges, hostel, military guest houses, ranch, suites, apartments, medical centers
and bed & breakfast operations.

3.2 Minimum System Requirments:

• Pentium 4 or better processor

• 256 MB of RAM or better (512 MB recommended)
• 20 GB of free hard disk space
• Color monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 pixel
• Broadband internet connection recommended for online support
• USB port for Swipe card reader, ScanShell reader, Signature pad and Webcam.
• Mouse or compatible pointing device
• Backup device such as USB Storage or External hard disk drive
• Modern Laser printer or Jet printer
• Windows Vista or XP operating system

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5.1 Websites:

• www.programmersheaven.com

• www.osborne.com

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