Booked

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Introduction

"Booked is a simple but powerful reserve-anything scheduler. With flexible layouts, custom rules, a powerful administrative backend, and an unbelievably simple user experience, Booked can fit almost any need. From conference rooms to lab equipment to airplanes - it's Booked." Demo

Installation

This Howto describes how to install 'Booked' in an SME Server Ibay, but it can of course it can also be installed in e.g. /opt/booked.

Booked does not have the greatest or most intuitive install procedure or documentation, hence the procedure below.

• Download the latest version from sourceforge and save the .zip file in e.g. /root/install

• Create a new IBay called "booked" with read everyone and web serving capabilities

• Unzip the downloaded .zip file into the "booked" IBay:

unzip booked-2.5.8.zip -d /home/e-smith/files/ibays/booked/html
mv /home/e-smith/files/ibays/booked/html/booked/* /home/e-smith/files/ibays/booked/html
rm -f /home-e-smith/files/ibays/booked/html/booked
chown -R www:www /home/e-smith/files/ibays/booked/html/ *

• Set the PHPbaseDir for the "booked" IBay:

db accounts setprop booked PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/booked:/tmp
signal-event ibay-modify booked

• Create the MySQL database, replace credentials to your likings:

mysql -e "create database booked;"
mysql -e "grant all privileges on booked.* to 'booked_user'@'localhost' identified by 'verysecretpass';"
mysql -e "flush privileges;"

• Copy the example config file

cp /home-e-smith/files/ibays/booked/html/booked/config/config.dist.php /home-e-smith/files/ibays/booked/html/booked/config/config.php

• Adjust config.php and replace/add settings from above

Edit the config file by adjusting at least the following settings/values:

$conf['settings']['admin.email'] = 'admin@example.com'; <-- change to your email address
$conf['settings']['script.url'] = 'http://localhost/Web'; <-- must have this value
$conf['settings']['database']['type'] = 'mysql';
$conf['settings']['database']['user'] = 'booked_user';        // database user with permission to the booked database $conf['settings']['database']['password'] = 'verysecretpass'; $conf['settings']['database']['hostspec'] = 'localhost';        // ip, dns or named pipe $conf['settings']['database']['name'] = 'booked';

and very specifically the installation password:

$conf['settings']['install.password'] = 'j3kfd982nd3'; <-- example password, set own password