Install a PHP Hospital Management System

This is the real, complete process for installing the Hospital Management System — a PHP (CodeIgniter 3) and MySQL application — on shared hosting or a local XAMPP setup. Unlike most products in our catalog, this one ships with an actual guided web installer, so you don't hand-edit a config file or import SQL manually. Follow it in order and you'll have it running in 15–20 minutes.

What you'll need

• PHP with the mysqli, GD, cURL, mbstring and zip extensions enabled — all standard on general-purpose PHP hosting, and the installer checks for each of these itself before letting you proceed
• MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10+, with a database and database user already created
• Hosting with FTP or file-manager access, or XAMPP for local testing
• The product zip file — no separate SQL file to track down, the installer handles the import for you

Step 1 — Choose Your Hosting (or Set Up XAMPP Locally)

If you're testing before deploying, download XAMPP and start the Apache and MySQL modules from its control panel. For a real deployment, this product runs on standard PHP + MySQL shared hosting. We use and recommend Hostinger for exactly this kind of install: PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, and FTP access are all included on their basic shared-hosting plans.

Step 2 — Extract and Upload the Files

Extract the downloaded zip. On XAMPP, copy the contents into htdocs. On shared hosting, upload everything to public_html via FTP or your host's file manager. There's no build step and nothing to edit yet — leave the config files alone, the installer writes them for you in the next steps.

Step 3 — Create Your MySQL Database

In your hosting control panel (or XAMPP's phpMyAdmin), create a new, empty database and a database user with full privileges on it. Note the database name, username, password, and host — the installer will ask for exactly these in Step 5. Don't import anything into it yet.

Step 4 — Run the Installer

Visit your-domain.com/install/start (or localhost/your-folder-name/install/start on XAMPP) in a browser. The first screen checks your server's PHP extensions and file permissions automatically and tells you exactly what's missing if anything fails — you don't need to guess.

Step 5 — Enter Your Database Details

On the next screen, enter the hostname, database name, username, and password from Step 3. The installer connects to verify them immediately and writes application/config/database.php for you — there's no manual file editing involved.

Step 6 — Create Your Admin Account and Finish

The final screen asks you to set your own admin email and password — there's no shared default login to remember or change afterward, since you choose your real credentials right here. Submitting this screen imports the full database schema and creates your admin account (added to the system as "Super Admin") in one step. Once it finishes, log in at your domain's root with the email and password you just set.

Common installation errors

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