Booking systems?

Joe · 09-02-2004

Hey,

I'm making a site for a friend but he requires a booking system on his site, now I'm sure these are powered by PHP but I'm not to good with PHP... anyone got any open source booking systems I can use or help me develop one?

Thanks,
Joe.

GoldNetX · 09-02-2004

What kind of booking system are you looking to make? Such as a restaurants booking, where people reserve seats, or a system to book artists for a performance night, etc.

I can most likely help if you could specify what it is for, and what it needs to do.

Evdawg · 09-02-2004

what do you mean by booking system? like a hotel booking system?

Joe · 09-02-2004

Its for a fear of flying course, all we need is an admin panel where he can check dates that are booked etc.. and the actual booking system to take them booked dates of the list so that no one else can book a course on those days.

www.confidentflying.co.uk

is the website but the actual site is not up yet, just a simple page giving updates.

Joe.

*The Eagle* · 09-02-2004

I was curious and a quick search on Google showed me that the average hotel booking system goes for more than 1500 euros, so this is oubviously not what you're looking for.

As far as I'm concerned, there is not that much work that goes into such software, so I'd be willing to help at some point. A good templating system would also help you a lot.

Joe · 09-02-2004

Thanks for the reply Jean, sorry to be a pain but could someone explain templating systems etc... as well as what they do?

Joe.

Order · 09-02-2004

hotscripts.com

great resource, look under php, there is bound to be something there. May look into calendar scripts also.

FYI: A templating system allows your code to be seperate from your design, being new to php, I would recommend against using one until you are familiar with the language.

*The Eagle* · 09-02-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Order

FYI: A templating system allows your code to be seperate from your design, being new to php, I would recommend against using one until you are familiar with the language.

Sorry I was quite unclear. What I meant is that if in the end Joe is not the one who codes the scripts, he should request that the programmer uses some sort of templating system.

I would advise against using one of those generic calendars since there isn't a really universal one that fits every job. A respectable booking system is much more than just a calendar anyway.

Order · 09-02-2004

I was pointing him to the general area that he should look, after all, a booking system is in the same category as a calendar, or organizer.

Joe · 09-03-2004

Thanks for the replys guys, I have absolutly no idea where to start with this so could anyone give me some pointers on how to make one or where one can be found?

Thanks,
Joe.

Evdawg · 09-05-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Order

hotscripts.com

great resource, look under php, there is bound to be something there. May look into calendar scripts also.

FYI: A templating system allows your code to be seperate from your design, being new to php, I would recommend against using one until you are familiar with the language.

Actually hotscripts probably wont find you what joe needs. If i've read all the posts correctly he looks like he needs a customizable solution. Something that will outfit the company and what they need EXACTLY.

What I would reccomend to do is go to http://www.sourceforge.net and search "booking" (do NOT search "booking system"). What's great about sourceforge is EVERY SINGLE ONE of the projects are open source!

and most of them and GNU GPL. This means that you can use one of those projects as a base and build on top of or edit and modify to suit your needs.

Yay!

**Man1c M0g** · 09-06-2004

God bless GPL scripts. I mean, nearly everything on Biorust (except vbulletin) has been adapted from various scripts with GPL licenses. You don't even need an amazing knowledge of programming to adapt them either - I just hacked bits in and out and slapped the scripts around until they worked....

Joe · 09-06-2004

Evdawg, thanks for that link, I found exactly what I needed

Thanks!
Joe.

Joe · 09-06-2004

Well after trying to mod some of them scripts which proved pointless I'm now asking if anyone could actually create one for me... if anyone could then please PM me.

Sorry for bugging you guys about this!
Joe.

09-07-2004

I could try if you want... ?