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

Last Updated: September 28, 2023

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.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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.

 

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

  1. edgar

    can you help me to send sms or emails to the absents?
    If we have the phone #, email, and status of the attendance, this shouldn’t be a problem, right?

  2. ammar al abdali

    its really great work and a very good job
    thanks a lot

    but I face a problem
    it show a massige
    ” Unable to create database – SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1007 Can’t create database ‘iwashere’; database exists”
    please guide me
    thanks again

    1. W.S. Toh

      If it is a new installation, just delete the database and reinstall. Also, redownload the latest build. It should be easier for updates in the future.

  3. Michele Fioretti

    Helllo , I have error 404 only on export attendance as csv. The remain function already works. Can yo have suggestions ? Thanks in advances.
    Can provide me example api call for register attendance of a student ? Thanks in advances.

    1. W.S. Toh

      1) Not getting 404 on my test server. The export CSV points to http://YOUR-SITE.COM/admin/export-attend and resolves to pages/ADMIN-export-attend.php as intended.
      2) Page updated, see reference above.

  4. Ryan

    Hi, when I run Iwashere with php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 it works fine but as soon as I upload it redirects to localhost/login and I get a 404 message. I am using 18.04 php ver 7.2.24 Apache2 ver 2.4.29. I cleared the.htaccess file and it didn’t work.

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