IOSR Hotels v2.3

[jesusto]

Ok,

But why country page and why at least 4 times?

Im working with just one country, so Im not using country pages, can this be the problem?

I just want to understand.

Thanks.

[datahell]

It is a technical subject, iosr cron jobs have been designed wisely. It is not only the country page, they are several pages, country page is 1of them. Scheduled tasks check is a little heavy process, we don't want to run always and especially on heavy loaded pages with many database queries. They run on lighter pages and even on administration pages. Scheduled tasks are split in 4 parts, each time only 1part is executed. This is why you need to visit such a page at least 4 times, in order to make sure all tasks were executed.

[jesusto]

Hi Datahell,

It is clear now.

Thanks.

[jesusto]

Hi Datahell,

I need some visual improvements to achieve my custom design without touching your php code, mate, perhaps you can have them into account for the next version.

1 - Cities with accent mark are not highlighted in searh module if you look for it without the accent and it feels strage... I attach picture.
2 - It should be great that "Inside modules" in locations and hotel pages could be standalone ones so we can place them anywhere we want, above all the hotel filter and the search module inside the hotel (I remember there was a module for that in very old version), but also small map, latest reservation, hotels nearby and so on...

Thanks

[MangPutra]

Dear developer
first please apologize my bed english.

I hove IOSR can develop for Channel Manager to make it sync with most 3 hotel portal like;  agoda, bookingcom,expedia.
Without this features Hotel Owner wont update their price on our site, because they have alotof travel agent and hotel owner hard to update prices for all OTA.
that mean we can not compete with others travel agent.
Most of hotel portal system today offering with channel manager like siteminder and others, also for JoomlaHBS is already with channer manager.

if  their is possible to make it with IOSR i will invest for this feature.

[wieyoga]

Hi Mang,
I'm pretty sure you from Bali right :-)

regarding the connection interface, the developer already done with that.
IOSR system is support  XML connection  through (API )

Thank you

[datahell]

As wieyoga said IOSR Hotels has already an XML/JSON API which you can use to build a connection with ANY third party service provider. Moreover IOSR Hotels has push notifications. Each third party service provider has its own integration system with IOSR Hotels API you can connect these 2 systems. It is not my job to build such a connection for the hundreds of other systems exist on the internet. I have given you the tools, you should build that or hire a developer to do that for you.

Note 1
Push notifications (v2.2+) are extremely easy to setup. Just provide the URL of a third party system that can accept bookings events (new reservation, cancel reservation, etc) and IOSR Hotels will automatically push the data to that URL.

Note 2
The full version of JoomlaHBS costs 1200 USD while IOSR + IOSR Hotels costs 175 EUR and JoomlaHBS has not even the 5% of the features of IOSR Hotels. I have seen several booking software on the internet, none of these has IOSR features and costs so less. Do the comparison by yourselves.

Note 3
IOSR Hotels demo site updated to the latest versions:
Elxis 4.4, IOS Reservations 4.3, IOSR Hotels 2.3, IOSR Cars 1.1

[MG01]

Hi datashell,

Can you please explain how new Hotelier registration form exactly works?
Can i have direct link to that form for all users, or only registered user can see that option?

Thanks and best regards,

MG

[datahell]

Taken from IOSR Hotels users manual:
With this option guests can self register as hoteliers. After registration a notification email will be send to the site administrator to manually activate the hotelier account. The new hotelier will not be able to access hotelier's control panel till the administrator activate his account. Only for multiple hotels mode!

It works for both guests and logged-in users. By submitting the registration form if you don't own a user account IOSR Hotels will create one for you and log you in automatically. It will also create the hotelier's account but will keep it deactivated. Only a site administrator can activate that account.

The hotelier's registration page, if enabled, is been displayed in this url:
reservations/hotels/registration.html (for multiple IOSR extensions)
Elxis URI: reservations:hotels/registration.html
or
reservations/registration.html (if only IOSR Hotels extension is enabled)
Elxis URI: reservations:registration.html

See the form live: Hotelier registration at IOSR hotels demo site

[jesusto]

Hi Datahell,

By default lastest IOSR versions shows terrain google maps and I would prefer standard ones (satelite), not possible to change?

Thank you

[datahell]

The default map type in map library is "ROADMAP" although most maps are switched "HYBRID" which I believe is the best option.

To change all maps to "SATELLITE" open this file:
components/com_reservations/includes/map.class.php
Change line 23 from this:
'mtype' => 'ROADMAP', //ROADMAP, SATELLITE, HYBRID, TERRAIN
to this:
'mtype' => 'SATELLITE', //ROADMAP, SATELLITE, HYBRID, TERRAIN

Change lines 49-51 from this:
public function setOption($option, $value) {
   if (isset($this->options[$option])) { $this->options[$option] = $value; }
}
to this:
public function setOption($option, $value) {
   if ($option == 'mtype') { return; }
   if (isset($this->options[$option])) { $this->options[$option] = $value; }
}

[jesusto]

Hi,

Thank you for the superfast answer.

[judelgado]

Hello guys,

   I want to know if this is possible.  When a Tour Operator book a room or several on the site I want the booking comes directly to the site owner, not the hotelier.

    I create an additional column on the UserDB as email2, I try to achieve that when the Tour Operator logs in and make a reservation the booking info goes to email2 instead of hotelier email.  It doesn't matter that the reservation info appears on the hotelier control panel, just want the reservation request goes to email2 when logged as  Tour Operator.

   Any hint will be highly appreciated.

   Regards

[judelgado]

Anyone?

[datahell]

E-mails are collected automatically by the hotel mailer class (ext/hotels/includes/hotmailer.class.php). So, you must modify that class.

To detect if the current user is tour operator:

$iosr = eRegistry::get('icore');
$helper = $iosr->loadOnce('hothelper', 'hotels');
$helper->isTourOperator(); //returns true if the current user is a tour operator, else false


To detect if a specific used with uid = 7 is tour operator:
$helper->isTourOperator(7); // true or false