A company payroll management system made with Django and MySQL which lets the admin set income and credentials for the employee and provides leave request and approval functionality.

• Install Django
• Install mysqlclient using:

  • pip install mysqlclinet
    

• clone this project.
• Go to settings.py payroll_management_sys -> settings.py Change the database user credentials, this block of code:

  DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'payrolldb',
        'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
        'PORT': '3306',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': 'password',
      }
  }
  

• create database : payrolldb
• run these commands in cmd in payroll_management_system folder:

  python manage.py makemigrations
  python manage.py migrate
  python populate_user.py #To make dummy employee and admin account
  

• run populate_table SQL script in mysql
• Finally on cmd run,

python manage.py runserver

• If successful , the site will be running on localhost:8000/