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Building a Portable Online Voting System: PHP and MySQL Source Code Guide

Technology Stack

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap (for responsiveness).
• Backend: PHP (Core PHP or CodeIgniter/Laravel depending on the version).
• Database: MySQL.
• Server: XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP (Local Server).

Features of Online Voting System

Criteria to choose a good repo:

• Voter registration and eligibility verification.
• Ballot creation and management (single/multi-choice, ranked choice optional).
• Secure authentication and vote casting.
• Vote recording with immutability and audit logs.
• Result tallying with exportable reports.
• Admin dashboard for election configuration and monitoring.

11. Testing and Verification

• Use HTTPS in production.
• Use prepared statements via PDO; never interpolate user input into SQL.
• Hash passwords with password_hash().
• Rate-limit login attempts; lock account after repeated failures.
• Enforce server-side checks so one user cannot vote more than once per election.
• For privacy-preserving voting, separate user identity from votes (use tokens or store votes without user_id).
• Validate and sanitize all file uploads; restrict file types and sizes.
• CSRF protection: include tokens in forms.
• Escape output (HTML encode) to prevent XSS.
• Regularly back up DB; store backups securely.
• Do not store sensitive personal data unless necessary.