Thanks Chris, I'm looking into them now. Can these be modified for such?
Dan -----Original Message----- From: Chris Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Project for a newbie (me) or for hire? you should check out www.x-cart.com its sweet. another is www.oscommerce.com if you need something for reference, www.php.net -- Chris Edwards Web Application Developer Outer Banks Internet, Inc. 252-441-6698 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.OuterBanksInternet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Sabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: [PHP] PHP Project for a newbie (me) or for hire? > Hi, > > I have a huge potential project and I'm fairly new to PHP. I've been > managing shopping carts for years for people, Miva Merchant, doing sites, > etc., but would like to try my hand at a custom PHP cart if possible. I Was > wondering if for the project requirements below ... > > a.) Any PHP ready made scripts already exist for the something similar to > the below requirements, for sale or free, that I could modify, customize, > etc. Something with a GUI admin page like PHPbb would be great. Or > > b.) If any PHP coders reading this might be interested in quoting this job, > or > > c.) Can anyone point me towards any books, sites, etc that would have a how > to, or sample scripts, snippets of code, etc geared towards the below > project that I myself could use to do this project myself? > > > > What I'm looking for is a hotel reservation system, just for a small bed and > breakfast, six rooms. It would enable a potential hotel guest to rent a > room on either one or a consecutive block of dates. Using a click able > calendar tied to the payment system. Once the renter is ready to pay via > credit card, the code would generate a price and then go into a simple > shopping cart where the customer can enter in his billing info and pay by > credit card. > > Maybe the same customer could rent more than one room with the same date > ranges, or on the same order rent different rooms for different dates, and > date ranges, etc., with discounts available for quantity purchases of either > rooms, or extended date ranges, or both. Also with the ability (for me) to > set discounts differently (in the code) depending on if a customer rents > more than one room, or more than one day, and extra discounts for renting > multiple rooms only, multiple days only, and also additional discounts for > renting both multiple rooms and multiple days, like for a convention. With > ability to set my own discounts in various ways, i e depending on length of > stay, number of rooms rented, number of days, etc etc, etc. > > I'd like it so that a customer could place a deposit on a room or group of > rooms for the reservation, with the administrator (me) able to set the > required deposit depending on what the price range is for the reservation, i > e, a percentage of the purchase price of the total order. This option is > not absolutely necessary but it would be a very nice feature. > > I need a service fee for cancellations, with variable cancellation fees > settable by me, which depend on both the closeness of the reserved date to > the cancellation and the amount of the sale, independently. The > cancellation would be automatic, so that if a customer cancels a > reservation, they are auto refunded on their CC either their deposit or paid > in full price, minus a pre cancellation fee which is variable, with the > ability to set that cancellation fee depending on the total sale price. > > Is this do able by a newbie with lots of gumption and the right books, > snippets? I already have Wellings PHP and MySQL web Development and > Professional PHP 4 Wrox. I read on another forum that there is a book > written for Dreamweaver MX and a sample project is a hotel reservation > system in PHP, but I use Go Live 6 and don't want to waste the money on that > one. > > Thanks. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
