plan*

A PHP-based application that help students of NTU (Nanyang Technological University) to plan their courses.

The application do web-scraping of course data from NTU public server, parses the data and stores them into meaningful content, and then do the scheduling of the courses based on user input.

Back-end Architecture

• Getter (getter.php)
  • fetch data from NTU's server (course schedule _{(directly to this)} and exam schedule)
  • store the HTML file locally
• Parser (parse.php and parse_exam.php)
  • clean and parse the HTML file (read the file as XML file) 😣
  • store the PHP object as JSON file
• Scheduler (scheduler.php)
  • fecth locally-stored JSON file
  • convert as PHP object
  • do scheduling as requested from user input