I Was Here - PHP Student Attendance System (Free Download)

I Was Here is an open-source PHP Student Attendance Management System. Featuring NFC and passwordless login, also allows students to take attendance by scanning a QR code.

Download & Installation

How To Use

For The Developers

DOWNLOAD & INSTALLATION

First, here are the download links and a quick “setup guide” for the impatient folks who don’t want to read through everything.

LICENSE & DOWNLOAD

GitHub | SourceForge

I Was here is released under the MIT License. You are free to use it for personal and commercial projects, and modify it as you see fit. On the condition that the software is provided “as-is”. There are no warranties provided and “no strings attached”. Code Boxx and the authors are not liable for any claims, damages, or liabilities.

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REQUIREMENTS

LAMP/WAMP/MAMP/XAMPP
Apache Mod Rewrite
PHP MYSQL PDO Extension
PHP OpenSSL Extension
At least PHP 8.0

INSTALLATION

Just copy/unzip into your HTTP folder. Access http://your-site.com in the browser and walk through the installer.

FAQ

AJAX Error? Bad Server Response? Change the domain? Change the timezone? Check out the FAQ here.

HOW TO USE

So far so good? Let us now go through a quick crash course on how to use I Was Here.

EQUIPMENT RECOMMENDATIONS

NFC tags – 10 pieces of Ntag213 only cost 2-3 bucks. Buy them in bulk, and one piece will only cost a few cents.
Label printer – Print QR codes or “student cards” if you want. There are Bluetooth ones that can pair with smartphones.

STEP 1) REGISTER USERS

Start by registering the administrators, teachers, and students. You can do it one by one, but the smarter/faster way is to upload a CSV file.

STEP 2) REGISTER COURSES

Next, register all your available courses – Again, you can do it one by one or upload a CSV file.

STEP 3) TIE USERS TO COURSES

Now that the users and courses are registered, tie the users to the respective courses.

STEP 4) REGISTER CLASSES

Finally, register the classes for the courses.

STEP 5) TAKE ATTENDANCE

There are two ways to take attendance:

The “old school” way, manually check/uncheck each student.
Show a QR code during class – Students will log into the system and scan the QR code.

FOR THE DEVELOPERS

This section is for the developers, with a couple of development notes for customization.

BUILT ON CORE BOXX

At least go through the very short tutorial.
Thereafter, go into the deeper concepts:
I Was Here has also adopted the following modules:

34 thoughts on “I Was Here – PHP Student Attendance System (Free Download)”

victorhuggo
November 8, 2022 at 8:19 pm

1. How do I leave the camera facing backwards by default when starting reading, and not the camera facing forward.

2. Where do I translate camera names, front and back? I couldn’t get the file

1. W.S. Toh
  November 9, 2022 at 1:31 am
  
  Ask the guy who made the QR scanner – https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode
LANNY
November 4, 2022 at 12:06 am

How to redirect the student area to a specific page after login?

1. W.S. Toh
  November 4, 2022 at 1:44 am
  
  Edit PAGE-home.php? Or change S-home.php entirely?
2. LANNY
  November 4, 2022 at 3:14 pm
  
  I need to be precise, when the student logs in, instead of being redirected to /s, redirected to /s/homepage which is a page that creates
3. W.S. Toh
  November 5, 2022 at 1:33 am
  if ($_SESS["user"]["user_role"]=="S") { $_CORE->redirect("/s/homepage"); } else { $_CORE->redirect(strtolower($_SESS["user"]["user_role"])); }
  
  Sorry, I cannot provide free consultation for your personal project beyond this. Good luck – https://code-boxx.com/faq/#help “Help on a deeper level”

I Was Here – PHP Student Attendance System (Free Download)

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