On 2/17/2012 4:01 AM, Tompkins Neil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of starting to design a hotel booking system that will
> eventually consist of over 10,000 hotels all with different room types,
> rates and availability for different dates. My question is does anyone
> have any experience with regards the best way to store the daily rates. Am
> I best using the following pattern
>
> (1) Default rates/rooms stored in a generic table
> (2) Any exceptions/changes/closed days to the daily rates are store in
> a separate table.
> (3) Any special offer exceptions are stored as a rule
>
> All, should I consider that for any hotel, for any room, for any day I have
> a record in a huge single table ???
>
> Thanks for any help and input.
>
There is already more than one package out there that does what you are
trying to do, so why not take a look at how they do the db stuff.
also keep in mind that you are working two reservations at once for each
entry
a guest requests an asett (the room)
a guest then promises to pay a certain amount for an asset
an asset can be tied to a variety or prices, but only one at a time,
unless certain conditions are met.
so no its not easy to do, but it has been done.
http://drupal.org/project/uc_hotel
(ps. no i do not do drupal)
