Multi-step admissions registration portal for Nawaz Sharif School of Eminence — guided form, validation, tracking codes, and an admin review panel.
School admissions used paper forms collected at the front desk. Lost forms, duplicate submissions, and slow review made the cycle painful for both the office and applicants. The brief was a portal that captures every required NSSE section in a guided flow, hands the applicant a tracking code, and gives the admissions office a sortable review panel.
Built the entire stack in PHP + MySQL: multi-step registration form with client-side validation, progressive save, tracking-code generation, and a JSON payload column that preserves the full submission shape for audit. Admin panel reads the same data with sortable, filterable review and status workflows.
Mapped every required NSSE section into a multi-step flow with progressive validation.
Each submission gets a unique tracking code surfaced to applicants for follow-up.
Full submission stored as JSON payload column alongside indexed fields for sort/filter.
Sortable review with status workflow (Submitted, Reviewed, Accepted, Waitlisted).
When the runtime is XAMPP/Hostinger PHP, the right answer is PHP — not a Node rewrite that deploys awkwardly. The interesting design call was the JSON payload column: indexed metadata for query performance, full payload for audit and revision. This avoided schema migration churn as the form evolved.
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