💸 Expense Management System

A full-stack web application for tracking, managing, and organizing daily expenses — built with PHP and MySQL.

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📖 Overview

Expense Management System is a CRUD-based web app that lets users add, update, delete, and categorize their daily expenses, then view their spending through an analytics dashboard. Built to practice full-stack development with a relational database backend.

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✨ Features

• Add, update, and delete expense records
• Categorize expenses
• View full expense history
• Analytics dashboard with spending breakdown
• Responsive, mobile-friendly UI

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	PHP
Database	MySQL
Frontend	HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• XAMPP or WAMP installed
• PHP 7.4+ and MySQL

Installation

1. Clone the repo into your htdocs (XAMPP) or www (WAMP) folder:

   git clone https://github.com/areebaathar-dev/expense-management-system.git

2. Start Apache and MySQL from your XAMPP/WAMP control panel
3. Create a database and import the schema:

   mysql -u root -p expense_tracker < database/schema.sql

4. Copy the config template and add your local DB credentials:

   cp config/db.example.php config/db.php

5. Visit http://localhost/expense-management-system in your browser

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📁 Project Structure

expense-management-system/ ├── config/ # Database configuration ├── includes/ # Shared PHP components (header, footer, auth) ├── pages/ # Feature pages (add, edit, delete, dashboard) ├── assets/ # CSS, JS, images └── database/ # SQL schema

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📸 Screenshots

Login Page

Dashboard

Analytics

Settings

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🔭 Future Improvements

• Export expenses to CSV/PDF
• Multi-user support with authentication roles
• Budget limits with alerts

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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👩‍💻 Author

Areeba Athar LinkedIn · GitHub