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;"