Development of Online Home Sharing

Web Application
Khondoker Aminuzzaman, Md. Junayed Miah, Md. Anisur Rahman and Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North South University
Bashundhara, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh
junayed.miah@northsouth.edu,junayed.miah@northsouth.edu,anisur.rahman@northsouth.edu,monirujjaman.khan@northsouth.edu

Abstract² Home Sharing is a web-based lodging system In a tourism place, only the big hotels are mostly
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that will provide homestay or renting system for tourism highlighted. So, people will only find the locations of these
in Bangladesh. Our website will be a platform that will costly hotels where they could have found a better resident
connect those users who are willing to rent their rooms in a lower price. Even if they manage to find a cost efficient
and users who are searching for a home to stay. Our one, they will need to look all around the place to get that. It
platform will not own any of the real estates. Our goal is has been quite a problem now. But through our website a
to make a responsive and user-friendly website and we person will be easily able to track down the nearby available
will build it especially for tourism purposes. In order to houses with homestay services according to their needs.
build our website, we have used HTML, CSS, Bootstrap,
JavaScriptfor the font-end side and Php, MySQL for the In our country there¶s no such platform available except
back-end side of the website. Currently in Bangladesh Airbnb where a person can find all the homestay related
there are no such websites like Home sharing. Airbnb is information of tourism places. That¶s why people are
currently approaching towards our country, but they finding it hard to get their desired places to stay during their
have not been able to cover most of the areas yet. Our vacation tours.
website will be much more helpful for those people who
are visiting a place for the first time and through our In other countries there are lot of online companies which
website they will be able to find the best available home are already working on this problem. So, we also thought
stay at a low cost. that we should also take steps to implement those ideas.
Hence, we come up with the idea to build this online Home
Keywords²home, tourism, room, room location, lodging,
sharing. Sharingplatform to solve this kind of problems in our
country as well. Through our website any person will be
able to find his/her nearby lodging very easily. They will get
I. INTRODUCTION
different filter options such as lodging type, location,
photos, price and available dates in our website while
Thiswebsite will simply point those real estates which are searching for an accommodation. They will also be able to
interested in this sector, but it will not own any real estates. get the view of those houses by seeing the images of the
It will just act like a medium to connect the people who will houses orrooms.
need a lodge and people who will rent their houses in this
business. The lodging type will be short-term and especially There¶s a website that called Airbnb which provides short-
for tourism activities. There are many tourism places in term lodging information for the tourism purposes. Most of
Bangladesh that people like to visit in their vacation. But the countries are already under their coverage¶s. They have
during a vacation the major problem is to find a suitable and recently stepped into our country for managing online
cost-efficient place to stay. For a University student it has lodging system. Except Airbnb there¶s no such platform in
become a trend nowadays to go on a tour during their our country that provides short term lodging information.
semester break. It¶s also necessary as well for refreshment.
Students always look for a place that are cost-effective Due to not having any available platform with short term
rather than staying in a luxury place. So, this website will lodging information people are going block to block of a
help them a big time to find a cost-effective place.Another tourism place to find a cost effective and suitable place for
issue is that there are plenty of people who are living in a homestay.
big house with 3 or more extra rooms. They don¶t really use
those rooms. In some cases, there are people who even own At present there is no easy way to find a short-term lodging
more than one house. So, they keep their whole house where a tourist can stay during travel. It is a big problem in our
abandoned for no reason which is not a productive idea. country. There is no proper website that provides lodging
They should simply rent or share those abandoned rooms or information in Bangladesh.
houses with the tourists to earn some extra
money.Furthermore,they will provide their rooms for only
short periods.

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 Airbnb provides short-term lodging information for the
tourism purposes. Airbnb is available in 191 countries and
boasts more listings than any of the services featured on our
roundup, including some truly unique options like
treehouses or famed locations from movies and televisions.
Prices on Airbnb can range widely depending on whether
you are looking to rent a room, an entire house or an
apartment. Other factors ± like location, dates and number of
guests ± also influence pricing. Some of these prices may be
offset by discounts provided by hosts for travelers seeking
longerstays.

There is another website that called VRBO which also

providesroom sharing related information. VRBO, originally
an acronym for Vacation Rental by Owner, is the oldest
home-sharing service still in existence. With more than 20
years of experience successfully connecting travelers to
hosts throughout the globe, many consider VRBO to be a
trusted travel partner. While many of its competitors offer
hosted experiences, VRBO exclusively rents private
properties.

Another website is Homestay. Unlike other home sharing

sites and services, Homestay guarantees a hosted
experience. With hosted homestays in morethan
160 countries, Homestay offers a unique experience to
Fig. 1. Block diagram structure of Home Sharing . connect with the local and gain insider insight about the city
in which you are traveling. Due to this shared hosting
In figure 2 we make the use case diagram of our website.
experience, Homestay offers the most competitive pricing
when compared to similar services but may not be ideal for
those who prefer theirprivacy.

II. Software Used for the System

Html:

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard

markup language for documents designed to be displayed in
a web browser.Web browsers receive HTML documents
from a web server or from local storage and render the
documents into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the
structure of a web page semantically and originally included
cues for the appearance of the document. HTML elements
are the building blocks of HTML pages. With HTML
constructs, images and other objects such as
interactiveforms may be embedded into the rendered page.

CSS:

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used

for describing the presentation of a document written in a
markup language like HTML.[1] CSS is a cornerstone
technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and
JavaScript. CSS is designed to enable the separation of
presentation and content, including layout, colors, and fonts.
This separation can improve content accessibility, provide
Fig. 2.Use case diagram of our website.
more flexibility and control in the specification of
presentation characteristics, enable multiple web pagesto
share formatting by specifying the relevant CSS in a
separate css file, and reduce complexity and repetition in the
structural content. Separation of formatting and content also
makes it feasible to present the same markup page in
different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-
screen, in print, by voice (via speech-based browser or
screen reader),
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accessed on a mobiledevice.

Programming Language:

PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor (or simply PHP) is a general-

purpose programming language originally designed for
webdevelopment. It was originally created by Rasmus
Lerdorf in 1994 the PHP reference implementation is now
produced by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for
Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive
initialize. PHP code may be executed with a command line
interface (CLI), embedded into HTML code, or used in
combination with various web template systems, web
contentmanagement systems, and web frameworks. PHP
code is usually processed by a PHP interpreter implemented
as a module in a web server or as a Common Gateway
Interface (CGI) executable. The web server outputs the
results of the interpreted and executed PHP code, which may
be any type of data, such as generated HTML code or binary
image data. PHP can be used for many programming tasks
outside of the web context, such as standalone graphical
applicationsand robotic dronecontrol.

Server:
We have primarily used local host for our website. A local
Fig. 3.Home Page of our website.
host is a server that is running in a local or a mounted folder
and whose document root is not the parent of the project
root. We did our development, then copied the sources to the
server. For the second type of users, they will need to go through
the following processes.

MySQL Server: First of all, they will need to register. For that purpose, they
will simply need to click on the account button available on
the navbar. Then, the user will be provided with a
MySQL is developed, distributed, and supported by Oracle registration page where they will be asked to enter their user
Corporation. MySQL is a database system used on the web name, email, and password, confirm password, phone,
and runs as a server. MySQL is ideal for both small and image, address and may be some additional information
large websites. It is very fast and good for using database. related to their post.After entering all this information
We have created some table over here for our dynamic finally their account will be created.
project and we have also stored information. MySQL is a
database that widely used for accessing query, updating, and
managing data in database.

III. SYSTEM

In Our Website, there will be two types of user. One type

of user will look for the homestay, another type of user
will put adds for renting their houses or rooms. First type
of user will simply type the name of our website in their
search bar and they will enter in our website, no login
needed for this type of user. After entering our website,
they will be able to see all the availableposts.

Fig. 4.Registration Page of our website.

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 On their Profile all the information they have provided will
be displayed. On the bottom Section There will be an add V. CONCLUSION
button and an Edit option and just below them, there will be
a list of post that a user has posted. Our project is an online web-based system which will
provide homestay or renting system for the tourists in
To add a post user will need to click on the add button.
Bangladesh who wants better accommodation at cheaper
Then they will be provided with a page where they will be
asked to enter their name, email, phone, specification, type, price. Although there are few systems like Airbnb which has
image, address, home or room related information. After the same characteristics as our project, but those system are
entering the information, they will simply click in the not perfect in the basis of Bangladesh. Our project will
submit button and their ad will be posted on the website. solely focus on the tourism in Bangladesh.

VI. ACKNOWLEDGMEMNT

This work is a part of the CSE 499 Senior Design project at

North South University conducted by Dr. Mohammad
Monirujjaman Khan. We would like to thank him for his
guidance and valuable insights that helped us accomplishing
this project.

VII. REFERENCES

[1] AirBnb, "Airbnb," [Online]. Available:

https://www.airbnb.com/.
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[3] https://www.vrbo.com/?CID=a_ph_6&utm_source=aff_p
h&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=indoleads2019
_1101l252&utm_content=1100l20389&k_clickid=1011l7
y6Wv7B, "Vrbo," [Online]. Available:
https://www.vrbo.com/?CID=a_ph_6&utm_source=aff_p
h&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=indoleads2019
Fig. 5. Registration Page of our website.
_1101l252&utm_content=1100l20389&k_clickid=1011l7
y6Wv7B. [Accessed 22 05 2019].
IV. FUTURE WORKPLAN [4] https://www.homestay.com/, "Homestay," [Online].
Available: https://www.homestay.com/. [Accessed 22 05
In future, we are planning to add more features in our 2019].
websites to make tourism experience much better. In [5] https://www.flipkey.com/, "Flipkey," [Online]. Available:
near future we may add a criterion for food where people https://www.flipkey.com/. [Accessed 22 05 2019].
will be able to post ads to offer the tourists with their
home-made foods besides renting their houses. Different
categories of food will be available on that menu. In
addition,we have another idea that we would love to
implement in the future which will display suggestions
to the users about the nearby famous places that they
might visit. Moreover, the website will show how far the
places are, how to reach there, reviews of people
regarding that place. Then there¶s another feature which
we might add that as well which will suggest
transportation services and this feature will provide
various types of vehicles for roaming around that
tourism spot. It will suggest from bicycle to different
size of cars.

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