sports tour management system social networking event management

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Case Study

Sports Tour Management System


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The website aims at being one stop shop for information on products for sport tours.

The website behaves as a new revenue channel for clubs and tours through respective members

and supporters contributing during their participation in cash back affiliates.

The website targets at streamlining the communication between tour, tournament organizers and

tourists.

The end user is enabled to share his/her experiences during the tours with the virtual world.

Client Requirement

Project Challenges

Team faced the following challenges:

The site will be a comprehensive networking for the players of different sports and

different clubs.

The site will be a platform for the players of different clubs going on the tours for the

tournaments.

The site will be the one stop shop for the tours.

Incorporating the affiliates on the site and giving the players extra cash-back on the

products.

The site will be selling the virtual products on the site.

The site will be having the Facebook Application called My Sports Venues.

Incorporating Open ID concept.

Incorporating the real-time city finding and showing the map of the city using the

web-services.

Incorporating the features of accepting the tour/tournament fees on the site. The

payment will be directly credited to the club’s account.

Credit purchases through PayPal for the clubs and individual.

Interactive tour/tournament search based on the geographical region and sports.

Search the tours based on the tour destination, tour departure location etc.

The site will be having unique concepts of honors board, tour/tournament ranking,

league events etc.


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Technologies Used

Manpower

Planning

The following four-tier development approach was adopted to equip the site with

numerous features and functionality mentioned below:

The Database layer containing MySQL Server Database, Tables, Stored Procedures and so on.

The Data Access layer containing the Data Access DLL responsible for accessing data from the

database

The Business Layer DLL consisting of all the business logic procedures for modules like Offices,

Properties, Maps etc.

The User Interface layer which forms the Graphical User Interface of the website.

Operating System &

Server Management

Red Hat Linux OS, Multi-Server Architecture with Staging & Production

Environment through Version Controlling releases, Server

Optimization, Security & SSL Implementation, Scheduler for Back-ups,

Alert Monitoring System Integration, Server Performance Tuning at

regular intervals, Software Firewall Configuration & Maintenance

Development Tools &

Environments

PHP5+, Zend Studio, MS Visio, AJAX, Java Script, HTML5, CSS3 etc.

Database MYSQL Database Server, DB Clustering, DB Optimization, Master

Slave Replication, Query Optimization, Scheduler for Backups

Project Leader

1

Developers

5

Designers

2

Quality Assurance Testers

2


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Development Highlights

The design approach was built around PHP 5 and MySQL SERVER 5 due to the social networking

nature of the website. Modules like Offices, Properties, Maps etc. were developed in PHP such that

they can be executed directly from the UI layer. In order to most effectively access the database

in an object-oriented context, an interface translating the object logic to the relational logic was

used to communicate with the relational databases in an object-oriented manner.

An intermediary abstraction layer was created for accessing data from the database. The UI layer

was kept free of any business logic with images, applications and data being called from their

respective servers. Sub-domains were used for the different areas of the website to guarantee

scalability. Web usability guidelines were strictly followed during development and the interface

was made easily navigable through judicious use of AJAX, CSS and HTML controls. The site was

developed and fully functional within a span of 6 months.

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