Attendance Logger - Capstone Project

📌 Overview

Attendance Logger is a web-based application built using Flask that allows teachers or administrators to:

• Register and manage student details
• Mark daily attendance by semester
• View and download attendance reports
• Securely handle user login and password recovery via OTP

This project serves as a full-stack capstone project demonstrating backend logic, frontend forms, database design, and secure user management.

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🧠 Features

• 🔐 User registration and login
• 🧾 Student registration with full academic & personal info
• 📅 Attendance marking with logic to avoid duplicate marking
• 📊 Attendance dashboard showing present/today stats
• 📁 Attendance reports (filter by roll number, name, date, semester)
• 📄 PDF export for attendance data
• 🔑 Forgot password + OTP email verification system
• 🌓 Dark-mode-inspired UI with Bootstrap styling

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⚙️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Flask, SQLAlchemy, Flask-Mail, FPDF
• Database: SQLite
• Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Jinja2
• Others: Gmail SMTP (for OTPs), bcrypt (for password hashing)

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🚀 Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/byteephantom/Capstone-Project-Web.git
   cd Capstone-Project-Web

2. Create a virtual environment

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # For Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install required libraries

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Configure environment variables (if needed)
   • Replace the hardcoded Gmail credentials in app.py with environment variables for better security.
5. Run the app

   python app.py
   
   

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📬 Contact

• Made by Ayush Kumar and Ayush Kumar (https://github.com/strongayush) — feel free to connect or raise issues.

📜 LICENSE

---- This project is part of a capstone submission and is not licensed for production use.