Car Rental & Management System

The Car Rental & Management System developed in Java GUI provides a user-friendly interface for customers to browse available cars, make reservations, and manage bookings. Admins can oversee the car inventory, bookings, and user accounts. The system includes features like user authentication, interactive forms, data validation, and optional database integration for seamless functionality and efficient management of car rental operations.

Applications and files needed in the program

Apache Netbeans
Xampp
SQL file from this repository
Java SQL connector (https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/)
Date Chooser (provided in this repo)

Setting up the Xampp

Install Xampp
Open
Start Apache
Start MySQL and click Admin
Create table named "carrentaldb"
Import the SQL from this repository

Setting up Java SQL Connector

Open our project
Locate libraries
Right-click libraries
Click Add/JAR Folder
Locate the mysqlconnector.jar that you downloaded.

Setting up JDateChooser

Open our project
Navigate through the menu bar then find Tools
Click Tools -> Palette -> Swing/AWT Components
Click add from JAR
Locate JCalendar folder
Open JCalendar folder -> lib -> jcalendar-1.4 -> next
Click JDateChooser -> next -> Swing Controls -> finish
You should see JDateChooser in the Swing Controls

How to run the program?

Under the main branch of this repository click Code -> Download Zip File
Extract
Open Xampp Control Panel
Start Apache
Start mySQL
Open Apache Netbeans
Click file -> open project -> Locate the carRentalProject that you extracted -> Open
Under LoginPage Package
Right Click login -> Run file