Pet Adoption Portal

Animal shelters do heroic work, but most still advertise adoptable pets through scattered social-media posts that get buried in days. Genuine adopters cannot browse reliably, and shelters drown in unstructured "is this available?" messages. This project builds a dedicated adoption portal with two sides: a public browse experience with photos, filters (species, age, size, good-with-kids) and detailed pet profiles, and a shelter side with listing management, health-record tracking and an application review pipeline. The adoption application is a structured form — housing type, pet experience, reasons — so shelters evaluate serious applicants instead of chat messages. A verification step keeps listings trustworthy: every pet's vaccination and vet-check status is recorded before the listing goes live. The demo ships with realistic shelter and pet data so the whole flow works end to end.

1. A shelter registers, passes admin verification, and creates pet listings with photos and the pet's details.
2. The shelter (or its vet) records the pet's health data — vaccinations, deworming, neutering — and the listing earns its verified badge.
3. Adopters browse and filter pets by species, age, size and traits, and open a pet profile for the full story and health record.
4. The adopter submits the structured application form; it is stored with a reference number and linked to the pet.
5. The shelter reviews applications in its dashboard, shortlists candidates, and schedules a home visit or meet-and-greet.
6. On approval the listing is marked adopted and archived; declined applicants receive the decision with the shelter's note.
7. Admins moderate new shelters and listings, and can suspend accounts that violate listing standards.

Tech stack:

• Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (responsive)
• Backend: PHP (Laravel) or Node.js + Express
• Database: MySQL (shelters, pets, health records, applications)
• Image handling: upload, resize and thumbnail generation
• Auth: role-based (adopter, shelter, admin)
• Notifications: email on application status changes
• Deployment: shared hosting or VPS

• [Pet listings with photos] Shelter-managed listings with multiple photos, breed, age, gender, size, energy level and temperament notes.
• [Verified health records] Vaccination, deworming, neutering and vet-check status tracked per pet; listings show a verification badge only when records are complete.
• [Smart filters] Filter by species, age group, size, gender, city and traits like good-with-kids or good-with-pets.
• [Structured adoption applications] Multi-section application form (adopter details, housing, pet experience, motivation) with a reference number per submission.
• [Shelter review pipeline] Applications move through submitted → under review → home visit → approved/declined, with status visible to the applicant.
• [Admin moderation] New shelter accounts and pet listings pass through a verification queue before going public.
• [Favourites & alerts] Adopters can save pets and get notified when a matching new listing appears in their city.

• Complete web application source code (frontend + backend)
• Database schema with migrations and seeded shelter/pet data
• Browse, pet profile, application and shelter-dashboard modules
• Admin moderation queue
• Project report PDF (background, system design, database schema, methodology)
• PPT presentation for final review
• Viva Q&A preparation document (role-based auth, image handling, workflow state machines)

• The demo uses generated pet photographs as placeholders; a live deployment needs real shelter photography uploaded by shelters.
• Email notifications are implemented but need the buyer's own SMTP credentials to send.
• The 8-photos-per-listing figure is a design target; actual upload limits depend on the buyer's hosting storage.
• Payment or adoption-fee handling is out of scope — fee arrangements stay between shelter and adopter.
• Identity/background verification of adopters beyond the application form is a shelter-side process, not automated.