Design and Implementation of Hair Salon Reservation System
Daisuke Kamagami
Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences
Hosei University
m03k0011@cis.k.hosei.ac.jp
Abstract
In this research, we developed a web application to
reserve for beauty salon. Currently, most customers use
telephone to make an appointment with their beauty salon
stores. The system can provide services so that customers
can make reservation online for the date and time that fits
their schedule through the Internet as a substitute for
telephone reservation. In addition, customers can use the
system to upload pictures of sample hair styles, to own
private pages by registering for membership and
communicate with other customers or hair salon staff in
bulletin board system. The implementation of the web
application relies on the techniques such as PHP, HTTP
Server and database software.
1. Introduction
Nowadays, thanks to rapid and widespread diffusion of
the Internet, anyone who can access internet via a
computer can enjoy many services such as shopping,
information search, listening music, electronic commerce,
Internet banking, and so on. In the future, different kinds
of services will appear and our life will become more
convenient.
In this paper, a system providing the customers a new
reservation procedure to replace the current reservation
procedure for hair salon is developed. Currently
customers have to call the hair salon and talk to the shop
staff to decide the time and date of the appointment and
the service they want from the hair menu of the store.
Then the shop staff confirms the status of booking. If the
time and date appointed by the customers is free, the
reservation will be accepted. But if not free, the customers
have to choice another time and date.
Some people may feel that it is inconvenient to have to
make reservation through the telephone line. One reason
is that the customers have to call during opening hours of
the hair salon to reserve, or when the customers want to
confirm or change their reservation, they have to call the
hair salon and change their schedule in conversation if
they have another appointment on the reserved day or
want to add/delete hair menu or cancel the appointment.
Supervisor: Prof. Shietung PENG
In these cases, mistakes often occur due to the difficulty to
communicate by telephone. These reservation procedures
can be easily and quickly made by using a web application.
Our online reservation system provides a new
reservation procedure which allows the customers to
submit their request and confirm or change their
reservation status.
2. Environment for Development
2.1. PHP
PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective
programming language originally designed for producing
dynamic Web pages. PHP is used mainly in server-side
application software, but can be used from a command
line interface or in standalone graphical applications. PHP
generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its
input and creating Web pages as output, but command-
line scripting and client-side GUI applications are part of
the three primary uses of PHP as well. PHP can be
deployed on any web server and on almost every OS
platform free of charge.
2.2. MySQL
MySQL is a multithreaded and multi-use SQL
Database Management System (DBMS) with more than
six million installations. It works on many different
platforms including Windows, MacOS X, GUN/Linux
and more. There are APIs available that allow
applications written in numerous programming languages
to access MySQL databases, including C, C++, Java, Lisp,
and PHP etc.
2.3. Smarty
Smarty is a web template system written in PHP.
Smarty separates PHP, as business logic, from HTML,
presentation logic, and generates web content by the
placement of special Smarty tags within a document.
The compartmentalization created by Smarty allows
the presentation of a web page to change separately from
the back-end, thus allowing applications to be developed
in a more organized fashion. Using this development
model, designers are hidden from the back-end coding
and PHP programmers are hidden from the presentation
coding.

2.4. Apache

The Apache HTTP Server is a web server for Unix-

like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and
other operating systems. Since April 1996 Apache has
been the most popular HTTP server on the World Wide
Web, serving as the de facto reference platform against
which other web servers are designed and judged. By May
1999 Apache installations served 57% of all websites. Its Figure 2. Top Page of the Hair Salon
popularity continued to rise, and in February 2006 Apache
served 68% of all websites. Apache continues to be the Figure 2 shows the top page of the web application,
most popular web server in use. where the customers can select menu such as viewing hair
Apache supports a variety of features, many menu and price, looking for hair style, searching hair
implemented as compiled modules which extend the core salon, making reservation and communication with BBS.
functionality. These can range from server-side When customers want to make reservation, they have
programming language support to authentication schemes. to register for membership at first. Figure 3 shows a
registration page for membership.
3. Implementations
Figure 1 shows the components of the reservation
system. This web application is used by users through the
Internet with web browser such as Internet Explorer or
Firefox.

Figure 3. Registration Page for Membership

To become a member, the customers have to fill out all

forms. After finished, they will receive a confirmation
mail from the server like the one in Figure 4. Personal
data the customers inputted is temporarily stored in a pre-
member table

Figure 1. Web Application Components

Figure 4. Confirmation Mail

 To finish the registration, the customer needs to click status are stored and managed in the reservation table of
link in the identity verification mail. When they click the the database.
link, the personal data in the pre-member table is deleted
and added to the member table in the database. After that,
they can login the member pages from the member login
page (Figure 5.) with user ID and password, which are
inputted in the registration form.

Figure 7. Reservation Page

The customers can also choice the uploading pictures

Figure 5. Member Login Page
After login to the member page, the member can
reserve and upload pictures which are favorite hair styles.
In addition, they can also modify their registration
information or cancel the membership.
menu. In this page, they can upload the pictures to select a
favorite hair style and to show the beautician. There are
two methods for uploading to the page. One is to upload
the pictures prepared by the customers from their
computer to the page (Figure 8-1.). Another method is to
upload by selecting the pictures prepared in the hair salon
site (Figure 8-2.).

Figure 6. Member Top Page

When the customers choice the reservation menu on

the member top page, they can make reservation by
selecting the shop, the hair menu and the time and date Figure 8-1. Upload Pictures from Computer
(Figure 7.). They can also take a look the detailed pages
such as prices of the hair menu, shop location, hair style
catalogue etc. and decide the plan. If the reservation has
already done, the details of the reservation are shown in
that page. The member can confirm their schedule and
also modify or cancel the reservation. All the reservation
 view the uploaded pictures and schedules in the calendar
form is also considered.
In this research, we construct the site for the hair salon.
But it is also possible to expand the versatility of this
system and construct the web site for another category.

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Figure 9. Administration Page

4. Conclusion and Future Work

In this study, a web application of the online

reservation system for the hair salon is developed. The
system provides convenient services for the customers so
that they can make reservation to the hair salon through
the Internet instead of using telephone line.
As for the future work, the development of a
reservation system for the mobile site is considered, so
that it is possible to reserve and upload the pictures with
mobile phone. To improve the administration functions to