General items
The ReservMe suite is designed to handle online reservations for a restaurant. Installing the software is very easy, you just have to extract the files to any directory where your web server has access to. It is recommended that the admin part is installed in a directory where simple clients don't have access. Please refer to the user manual of you HTTP server how this can be achieved. The first steps of managing users, desks and further actions are described in the admin part of that manual.
The client part of the software is described in the client section.
The customers can create reservations on the available tables. The admin user(s) can query and delete existing reservations. Of course all actions done by the clients can also be done by the admin users if using also the client entry point.
The ReservMe suite is programmed in PHP and Javascript. To run that suite the following prerequisites are necessary.
- JavaScript in the browser must be enabled
- The HTTP server must be able to handle PHP escape sequences
- The code is written in PHP3
- A mysql server must be available
The software is freeware, but if you are using it, a link to the ReservMe Homepage, http://gvogt.saxen.net is very much appreciated. In further versions there will be a logo that should be displayed, including the link to the ReservMe homepage.
Currently the software is organized in three packages: admin, client and documentation whereby the admin and the client part are put together as software and the documentation is separate. But there is also a common directory for the GIF files. If you want to install the three parts at different places you have to copy the files of the directory "GIFs" to the appropriate places. The parts client, admin, doc and GIFS are on the same hierarchy level.
Installation
There will be four directories in the zipped tar-file: admin, client, GIFs and doc. As you can imagine in the admin directory all files regarding admin actions
are located and so on... Be aware that all files assume that the pictures are in a separate directorys called GIFs that is on the same hierarchy as the admin and the client directories.
You can install them whereever you want by just de-taring it in any appropriate directory.
Database format
The ReservMe suite is actually using two tables in the database, a table called "RM_Tische" where all the tables are adminitered by the admin user and a second table called "RM_Reservation" where all the Reservations from the users are stored.
The table "RM_Tische" is changable by the admin user only.
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Gerhard Vogt,
Gerhard.Vogt@bigfoot.de