Designing Web Database Application for Local Medicinal Plants of Gorontalo Using MVC Architecture

摘要

There is a significant number of unpublished research by university lecturers and students about Gorontalo's local medicinal plants that have contributed to the insufficiency of information to the society regarding the benefits of local medicinal plants. Moreover, the public lacks digital backup and documentation of the medicinal plants referred. This research aims to create a web database of Gorontalo's local medicinal plant, by comprising waterfall method of software engineering approach. The waterfall method involves four steps. The first step is system requirement analysis through preliminary study and observation based on field study and library research. The second is system design, by context diagram and system architecture designs, i.e., use case diagram, class diagram, activity diagram, and database design. The third is coding using PHP programming language by OOP (object oriented programming) concept and MVC (model view controller) architecture. The last step is system test using the black-box testing method. The result shows that the web application designed is able to operate properly.