1.

Introduction
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The purpose of this project is to develop an On-line Doctor Finder System
that provides customers/Patent with the facility to search doctor and get appointment
on-line. The system will provide all the facilities to its customers when their
authentications [user id and password] match, including viewing account information,
performing transfers, giving the customer an option of changing address, password
retrieval, performing transactions, viewing appointments. The system should also
support an online enrolment facility for new customers.
The administrator should have the ability to perform various operations like
inserting all details regards Hospital for the customer and performing functions like
providing facility to user to search easily, when the customers want take appointment
they have to register first and then admin verify their status after cheeking all details .
The administrator also has the privilege to close the customers account on the request
of the customer. The customer should be able to access his/her account from
anywhere just by inputting the correct user-id and password.

Chapter 2
System Analysis
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Identification on need
Need to locate a provider quickly? Our online Doctor Finder (provider search)
gives you flexibility in a simple format. Be sure to check your criteria for the
provider search webpage most appropriate for your plan. This online Doctor Finder
helps you find a perfect match for your medical needs Doctor Finder provides you
with basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician.
While it is our goal to provide the most up to date information, our provider
network is constantly developing. Always verify that the provider you choose is
participating in our network before you receive services Schedule appointments 24
hours a day, 7 days a week
Whether its 2:00 AM and your office is closed or its 2:00 PM and your phones are
busybe there for your patients and fill your schedules, too.

Turn your website traffic into real appointments

Potential patients are visiting your site right nowand leaving. In a matter of
minutes Doctor Finder can allow these visitors to book appointments with you
instantly.

You receive the appointment details!

Patients provide their reason for visit and insurance information, so your practice
always runs smoothly. We send several appointment reminders to make sure your patients
show up on time. Patients can even book appointments directly from your personal website

Search Hint:
The optimal way to search for a physician by name is to search by Last Name
only and the State. You may also want to perform a "sounds-like" search if you are
unsure of the exact spelling of a name or city, or if your search did not return the
desired results. This option is available beneath the name and address fields on the
"Search
by
Physician
Name"
page.
The optimal way to search for a physician by specialty is to select
a Specialty and State. If your search result is larger than the predetermined limit, you
will be asked to modify the search by adding City and/or Zip Code.
Occasionally, a physician is difficult to locate because:

The physician has moved to a different state and the AMA has not yet received
the new address;

A small number of physicians have requested a "no contact" designation on

their AMA records (no contact records are managed like an unlisted phone
number and are not released);
Physicians without active licenses do not appear in DoctorFinder;
The physician's name may have a space in it, like "Mc Donald" (use of the
space is required);
DoctorFinder uses the primary medical specialty designated by the physician
(your physician may practice more than one medical specialty).

2.2

Preliminary Investigation:

In this process, the development team visits the customer and studies their
system. They investigate the need for possible software automation in the given
system. By the end of Preliminary Investigation, the team furnishes a document that
holds the different specific recommendations for the candidate system. It also includes
the personnel assignments, costs, project schedule, and target dates. Main Tasks of the
preliminary investigation phase are:

Investigate the present system and identify the functions to be performed

Identify the objectives of the new system. In general, an information

system benefits a business by increasing efficiency, improving
effectiveness, or providing a competitive advantage
Identify problems and suggest a few solutions
Identify constraints, i.e. the limitations placed on the project, usually
relating to time, money and resources
Evaluate feasibility - whether the proposed system promises sufficient
benefit to invest the additional resources necessary to establish the user
requirements in greater detail

To conclude the preliminary examination, the systems analyst writes a brief

report to management in which the following are listed:

The problem that triggered the initial investigation

The time taken by the investigation and the persons consulted

The true nature and scope of the problem
The recommended solutions for the problem and a cost estimate for each
solution

The analyst should then arrange a meeting with management to discuss about
the report and other matters if need be. The end result, or deliverable, from the
Preliminary Investigation phase is either a willingness to proceed further, or the
decision to abandon the project.

2.3 Feasibility Study

It is a test of system proposal, according to its workability, impact on

application area, ability to meet user need, and effective use of resources. It focuses
on four major questions:

1. What are the users demonstrable needs and how does a candidate system meet
them?
2. What resources are available for given candidate system? Is the problem worth
solving?
3. What are the likely impacts of the candidate system on application area?
4. How well does it fit within the application area?

These questions revolve around investigation and evaluation of the problem,

identification and description of candidate system, specification of performance and
the cost of each system, and final selection of the best system. Objective of feasibility
study is not to solve the problem but to acquire a sense of its scope. During the
analysis, the problem definition is crystallized and aspects of the problem to be
included in the system are determined. Feasibility analysis is to serve as decision
phase to have an analysis of questions that, is there a new and better way to do the job
that will benefit the user, what are the cost and savings of the alternatives. Three key
considerations are involved in feasibility analysis: economic, technical, and
behavioural.

2.3.1 Economic Feasibility

Economic analysis is the most frequently used method for evaluating the
effectiveness of a candidate system. More commonly known as cost benefit analysis,
the procedure is to determine the benefits and savings that are expected from a
candidate system and compare them with costs. If benefits outweigh costs, then the
decision is made to design and implement the system. The benefits and savings that
are expected from a candidate system are mainly in terms of time. When a user is

directly able to handle a project through interfaces provided by OBS without

the burden of coding for every kind of modification a lot of time and human effort is
saved.
There was a need of estimating the bearing cost on the resources needed
(manpower and computing systems) for the development of the system. Full Cost
estimation of the resources was done prior to the project kick off.
There was procurement costs, consultations cost, purchase of equipments,
installations cost and management cost involved with the development of the new
proposed system. In addition, there are start up costs, and no new costs for operating
system software, communications equipment installations, recruitment of new
personnel, cost of disruption to the rest of the system required. There is further no
need to purchase special applications software, do software modifications, training
and data collection, and just a meager documentation preparation cost involved.
Lastly, there is a system maintenance, depreciation or rental cost involved with the
new system.

2.3.2 Technical Feasibility

Technical feasibility centers on the existing computer system (hardware,

software, etc.) and to what extent it can support the proposed addition. This phase
involves financial considerations to accommodate technical enhancements. If the
budget is a serious constraint, then the project is judged not feasible.
System Technical feasibility is one of the most difficult areas to assess at this
time of systems engineering. If right assumptions are made anything might seem
possible. The considerations that are normally associated with technical feasibility
include:

1) Development Risk:
Can the system element be designed so that necessary function and
performance are achieved within the constraints uncovered during the analysis
of the present system?

The new system proposes to bring significant changes to the present

system to make it more efficient. The new system proposed meets all the
constraints requirements and performance requirements identified for the
system to become successful.

2) Resource availability:
Are skilled staffs available for the development of the new proposed
system? Are any other necessary resources available to build the system?
The Participants working with the proposal are seniors who have
sufficient knowledge and learning skills required to know about the
development of the new system. There is also no need of any other special
need of resources with the development of the proposed system and it can be
very well developed using the computing and non-computing resources
available within the present system.

3) Technology:
Has the relevant technology progressed to a state that will support the
system?
Technology in the form of different works done in the related field is
already available with the commercial world and has been already
successively used in many areas. Therefore, there is no need of any special
technology to be developed.
The new system is fully capable of meeting the performance,
reliability, maintainability and predictability requirements.
The social and legal feasibility encompasses a broad range of concerns
that include contracts, liability, infringement etc. Since the system is being
developed by the students of the institute themselves there are no such
concerns involved with the development of the proposed system.
The degree to which alternatives are considered is often limited by cost
and time constraints. However variations should be considered which could

provide alternative solutions to the defined problem. Alternative

systems that could provide all the functionality of the desired system are not
available and hence the present solution is itself the most complete solution of
the defined problem.
FBTS has a feasibility of around 95% to be implemented. The
candidate system fully supports the existing computer system (hardware,
software, etc).

2.3.3 Behavioural Feasibility

People are inherently resistant to change, and computers have been known to
facilitate change. An estimate should be made of how strong a reaction the user is
likely to have towards the development of a system. The introduction of candidate
system Work Planner will not require special effort to educate, sell and train the user
on new ways of conducting the system. As far as performance of the system is
concerned the candidate system will help attain accuracy with least response time and
minimum of programmers efforts through the user-friendly interface.

2.4

Project Planning

Planning begins with process decomposition. The project schedule provides a

road map for a software project manager. Using a schedule as a guide, the project
manager can track and control each step in the software engineering process.

2.4.1

Project Tracking

S. N.

Work Task

Description

Timeline

1.

Requirements Specification

Complete specification of the system including

the framing of policy etc.

1-2

2.

Database creation

List of tables and attributes of each of them.

2-4

High Level Design :

3.

High-level
Design

and

E-R Diagram

DFD

Use case Diagram

Class Diagram & etc.

Detailed

4-7

Detailed Design :

Pseudo code or algorithm for each

activity

Implementation of

4.

Implementation of the frontend of the system

Login Screen

Screen that giving various options for

each login

Screens for each of the options

Screens connected to data base and updating

front-end data base as required.

7-10

5.

Integrating the
with the database

6.

Integration Testing

The system should be thoroughly tested by

running all the test cases written for the system.

11-12

Final Review

Issues found during the previous milestone are

fixed and the system is ready for the final
review.

12-14

7.

2.5 Project Scheduling

10-11

11-14
Weeks
TESTING &
10-11
Weeks

P
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O
C
E
S
S

7-10
Weeks

4-7
Weeks
DETAILED
2-4
Weeks
DATABASE
1-2
Weeks
REQUIREME
NT ANALYSIS

CREATION

DESIGN

IMPLEME
NTATION

INTEGRATIO
N

FINAL REVIEW

2.6. Software Requirement Specification

PHP started out as a small open source project that evolved as more and more people
found out how useful it was. Rasmus Lerdorf unleashed the first version of PHP way
back in 1994.
PHP is a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".
PHP is a server side scripting language that is embedded in HTML. It is used to
manage dynamic content, databases, session tracking, even build entire e-commerce
sites.
It is integrated with a number of popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and Microsoft SQL Server.
PHP is pleasingly zippy in its execution, especially when compiled as an Apache
module on the Unix side. The MySQL server, once started, executes even very
complex queries with huge result sets in record-setting time.
PHP supports a large number of major protocols such as POP3, IMAP, and LDAP.
PHP4 added support for Java and distributed object architectures (COM and
CORBA), making n-tier development a possibility for the first time.
PHP is forgiving: PHP language tries to be as forgiving as possible.
PHP Syntax is C-Like.

Common uses of PHP:

PHP performs system functions, i.e. from files on a system it can create, open, read,
write, and close them.
PHP can handle forms, i.e. gather data from files, save data to a file, thru email you
can send data, return data to the user.
You add, delete, modify elements within your database thru PHP.
Access cookies variables and set cookies.
Using PHP, you can restrict users to access some pages of your website.
It can encrypt data.

Characteristics of PHP:
Five important characteristics make PHP's practical nature possible:

Simplicity
Efficiency

Security

Flexibility

Familiarity

Minimum system requirements are listed below:

Hardware and Software Requirements
Processor

Intel Core i3

RAM:

256 MB or more

Operating System:

Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, 2007.

Database

SQL Server 2005

Hard Disk space:

50 GB

Web

Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, Google Chrome

Software

Dream viewer

2.7. Software Engineering Paradigm applied.

Conceptual Model
The first consideration in any project development is to define the projects life
cycle model. The software life cycle encompasses all the activities required to
define, develop, test, deliver, operate and maintain a software product. Different
models emphasize different aspects of the life cycle, and no single model is
appropriate for all types of softwares. It is important to define a life cycle model for
each product because the model provides a basis for categorizing and controlling the
various activities required to develop and maintain a software product. A lifecycle
model enhances project manageability, resource allocation, cost control, and product
quality. There are many lifecycle models, as:

i.

The Waterfall Model

ii.

The Prototyping Model

iii.

Spiral Model

The Waterfall Model:

The model used in the development of this project is Waterfall model. This is
due to some of the reasons like

The model is more controlled and systematic

All the requirements are identified at the time of initiating the project.