Online apartment rental site that allows university students to search for accommodations. Software Engineering project developed in collaboration between SFSU and HS-Fulda.
Website: gator-renter.herokuapp.com
- Apartments for rent can be posted/advertised by anybody (Fulda or non- Fulda students) with the idea that main rental customers are Fulda students.
- The application allows Fulda students to browse, search, filter apartments for rent and send messages to landlords.
- People who wish to rent (Fulda or non- Fulda students) can post the apartment info (data, rent, images).
- Users are able to see on Google Maps the location of an advertised apartment.
- Administrators are able to manage accounts and site content.
- Developed using LAMP/MAMP stack.
- Optimized for standard desktop/laptop browsers. It degrades for different sized windows, so it can be adequately rendered on mobile browsers.
- Intuitive and easy to use application.
- Implemented SEO and SEM.
- Data-source. MySQL relational database.
- RESTful API developed and exposed to read and write data. MINI PHP framework was used to develop the API.
- Front-end developed using AngularJS, HTML5 and CSS3.
- The application runs on Apache web server.