MODx Calendar / Booking System

Hi there,

I used MODx a few months ago and really liked it. I’ve recently been given a new project and I am thinking of using MODx to implement it. Basically it will be a rental website where the user will be able to see which days the vehicle is available or unavailable for rent on a calendar. They will then be able to select the day and book the vehicle. Once they have booked the days the want to rent the vehicle I want them to automatically become unavailable (shaded/coloured) on the calendar.

I have spent today doing some reading and someone suggested using the EventCalendar and I understand that I would be able to show availble/unavailable dates on the calendar but I am unaware whether the calendar can be automatically updated when a user books dates?

Could someone advise me if this is possible and what would be the best add-on to use to achieve this?

Many thanks

Would be a really cool add-on. I’ve used JustBookIt (http://www.justbookit.uochm.com/), a frighteningly obscure php script that needs a serious English-translation overhaul...but it was surprising effective (after some customized CSS) when I used it to block out hourly timeslots for Salvation Army bellringers for our church last year. Can be adjusted to do days or longer time-slots, as well. I know it’s not a built-in modx piece, but it may work for your needs. Don’t really want to mod it for other needs, as it is a nightmare to get around the code at times. Keep that in mind if using

You can also try to integrate php Booking with MODx...
http://www.phpbookingcalendar.com/ @ sourceforge... and it is FREE

Hi,

rental website where the user will be able to see which days the vehicle is available or unavailable for rent on a calendar.

someone on the german forum posted a solution for something like that once, have a look at this: http://bruno.tattoocms.de/64.html i can check if it’s still available

aaaah - here you go Xett
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,26825.0.html

Yes, in this example the owner can change avaliable/unavailable directly in the frontend, when he is logged-in. One click on a free start-date and he can choose with a datepicker free end-dates.
It is done with a newer version of xett with own cache-system for the different month-views. At the moment I’m trying to integrate this example into blox/xedit, our new frontend-editor. blox is the next version of xett for listing/editing nested arrays from tables and documents with modx- or file-chunks.
I’m working on some examples for testing at the moment here: http://bruno.tattoocms.de/62.html

Very cool

I wished I had found this one out earlier !
Is it in the Repository ?

Wow thanks everyone for the great response!

I will certainly give some of these options a go and let you know how I get on, in the mean time if anyone has anymore suggestions please still let me know - always good to keep options open

Quote from: sharkbait at Sep 21, 2009, 11:44 PM

Hi,

rental website where the user will be able to see which days the vehicle is available or unavailable for rent on a calendar.

someone on the german forum posted a solution for something like that once, have a look at this: http://www.sylt-watthaus.de/fewo-freie-termine.html&month=10&year=2009 i can check if it’s still available

aaaah - here you go Xett
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,26825.0.html

Thanks for this, its pretty similar to what Im loking for, ideally I would like the user to be able to click on the avilable date and then take them to a booking form, basically something similar to the system used on this site:

http://www.oconnorscampers.co.uk/van_details.php?v=25

Thanks

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Quote from: PH!L at Sep 22, 2009, 05:54 AM

Quote from: sharkbait at Sep 21, 2009, 11:44 PM

Hi,

rental website where the user will be able to see which days the vehicle is available or unavailable for rent on a calendar.

someone on the german forum posted a solution for something like that once, have a look at this: http://www.sylt-watthaus.de/fewo-freie-termine.html&month=10&year=2009 i can check if it's still available

aaaah - here you go Xett
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,26825.0.html

Thanks for this, its pretty similar to what Im loking for, ideally I would like the user to be able to click on the avilable date and then take them to a booking form, basically something similar to the system used on this site:

http://www.oconnorscampers.co.uk/van_details.php?v=25

Thanks

hi, did you managed to create this booking system to work under modx?
I need to do something similar now.

thx