IOS Reservations 2.5

[aiden11]

is any way to have a external form for hoteliers who want to join?
not linked to the database just like a contact form but with more information

like : hotel name, owners or company name, address,city,number of rooms  email, phone number, etc?

[datahell]

You can do this easily with wrapper. Create an html form and add it inside Elxis with wrapper.

[aiden11]

Thanks for that, will do a html form

The other question i do have

How can i make the images of the hotels to open like they do on some of the other iso websites like (http://www. e-bookingonline.com)
i think mine its not using Ajax ?
is any fix to this?

[aiden11]

the other question was, is any way we can limit the users to add one hotel only?

[datahell]

Here is how you can do this on IOS Reservations 2.0:

open components/com_reservations/reservations.php
Go to line 1822 (function editHotel), which is an empty line and exactly bellow there is this line:
$lists = array();
 
Add on line 1822 (above $lists = array();) the following:


if ($edit == 0) {
   $database->setQuery("SELECT COUNT(hid) FROM #__res_hotels WHERE ownerid='".$my->id."'");
   $c = intval($database->loadResult());
   if ($c > 5) {
      $backLink = sefRelToAbs('index.php?option=com_reservations&Itemid='.$Itemid, 'com_reservations/');
      mosRedirect($backLink, 'You are not allowed to add more than 5 hotels!');
   }
}


Change 5 with your desired number of maximum allowed hotels.

The above will redirect the user that tried to add a 6th hotel to the front-page and will display him a message. If you wish to alert him a message and redirect him back where he was change this:
$backLink = sefRelToAbs('index.php?option=com_reservations&Itemid='.$Itemid, 'com_reservations/');
mosRedirect($backLink, 'You are not allowed to add more than 5 hotels!');

with this:
$resmaster->sendHeaders();
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">alert('You are not allowed to add more than 5 hotels'); window.history.go(-1);</script>\n";
exit();

[aiden11]

on mine its on line 1815
 $lists = array();

do i have an older version ?

[datahell]

On January 16, 2009 captcha images were added to the comments form. That's the only difference.

[mgrc]

For multiple hotels, links to sort by price and stars would be nice.

[mgrc]

Food for thought:
Any hotel is or will be subscribed to several hotel websites, especially if they are free .
To log into each one in order to adjust price and occupancy changes on a daily basis would be repetitive long task.
You would want to adjust occupancy often in order to avoid overbooking.
After all, it is bad customer service to have to send a reservation refusal letter because you overbooked.
Maybe rss feeds are the solution. Providing specific rss format for the hotel to complete whenever they wish to update the price and occupancy. This means that hotel would broadcast and automatically update occupancy on all relevant reservation sites at once.
In the hotel profile a space can than be added to ask hotels to provide this rss feed with the before mentioned data.
What do you think?


 

[datahell]

As IOS Reservations 3.0 is still under heavy construction I can not discuss many things. The only thing I say for now is that IOS Reservations 3.0 will be, by-far, the best booking system for it's money. The new version is almost completely different than v2.0. IOS Reservations 3.0 is a really professional booking system, with easy administration, smart tasks, high security and an awesome front-end layout (full css templates are supported).

[de-active]

As IOS Reservations 3.0 is still under heavy construction I can not discuss many things. The only thing I say for now is that IOS Reservations 3.0 will be, by-far, the best booking system for it's money. The new version is almost completely different than v2.0. IOS Reservations 3.0 is a really professional booking system, with easy administration, smart tasks, high security and an awesome front-end layout (full css templates are supported).

Hi Datahell

I know you can't discuss release dates or won't give such information and I understand and appreciate that, but is it possible to give divulge any information or indication as to duration required to complete the new version of IOS R? Can we expect it within the next three months? Six months? We've heard so much about the new version that we're dying for it. Lets hope it comes out before we actually die! LOL   

[datahell]

The season ends and I must admit that I am very tired and I need vocations... I am not so productive these days. You know the hot, the sun, the sea, have you heard about summer in Greece?

Everything must be ready by the end of July as I will be on vocations on August. So this is the final date but I can not guarantee anything. I will release it when it will be absolutely ready and will fulfil 100% my quality standards.

[de-active]

WOW!  Maybe I should take a break in Greece too! That picture is just breath-taking!

Just a comment, if I've not already mentioned this elsewhere - is it possible to write a small caption (i.e description) on the images of the rooms and locations. So let's say I have a picture of the city centre, I can have a caption on it saying "Main City Centre" or if I have a picture of the lobby of the hotel I can write "Hotel Lobby". Just an idea.

Looking forward to the looming deadline! 

[andre747]

It would be great if IOS Reservations had a sms notification feature when a booking is made like other websites have 

[de-active]

Yeah the new version will have SMS confirmations as optional.