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Make Your Own Booking Widget

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[[Category:How to]]
[[Category:Developers]]
[[Category:Widgets]]
<div class="heading">Create a custom booking widget</div>
This page explains how to create your own booking widget
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== Introduction ==
Making your own booking widget is not hard. It only involves opening the booking page and optionally passing some information to it.
Common ways to open the booking page are using an HTML <A> link or using a <FORM> with selectors and inputs.
We will only focus on the technical aspects of getting the form to submit information, we will not show any styling, labels, javascript Javascript and CSS, that is completely up to you to create any style you need.
Modify to suit and paste the samples into your web page.
== Create a Widget ==
'''Create a Form'''
A basic HTML FORM can be created like this
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="https://www.beds24.com/booking2.php">
<input type="hidden" name="propid" value="2035">
<input type="submit" value="Book Now">
It is possible using jQuery or javascript to keep the select options up-to-date with the current month/year but that is beyond the scope of this How To.
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="https://www.beds24.com/booking2.php">
<select name='fdate_date'>
<option value='1'>1</option>
We can add selectors for the length of stay and number of guests as follows
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="https://www.beds24.com/booking2.php">
<select name='fdate_date'>
<option value='1'>1</option>
4. Paste the code into the source code of your web site
<nowiki><div style="color: #2f2f2f; font-size:14px; width: 100%; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: center; background: #339900; background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #66cc00, #339900); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#66cc00), to(#339900)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #66cc00, #339900); background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #66cc00, #339900); background: linear-gradient(top, #66cc00, #339900); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#66cc00', endColorstr='#339900');" class="b24bookingstrip"><form method='GET' target='_blank' action='https://www.beds24.com/booking.php' style='margin:0; padding:0;'><span style='padding-right: 10px; display: inline-block;'><a style='color: #2f2f2f;text-decoration:none;' target='_blank' href='https://www.beds24.com/booking.php?propid=3103&page=getdates&type=0&referer=BookingStrip'></a></span><span style='display: inline-block; padding-right: 10px;'>
<select id='fdate550775_date_propid3103' name='fdate_date' style='font-size:inherit; margin:0; padding:0;color: #2f2f2f'<option value='1'>1</option><br></select>
<select id='fdate550775_monthyear_propid3103' name='fdate_monthyear' style='font-size:inherit; margin:0; padding:0;color: #2f2f2f;'>
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== Create a booking form for a preselected room and dates ==
Create a URL like this:
 
https://beds24.com/booking2.php?propid=13434&checkin_hide=2016-11-24&numnight=2&numadult=1&br1-32906=Book
 
You need to define:
 
1) propid
 
2) one of checkin or checkin_hide (different date formats)
 
3) one of checkout, checkout_hide or numnight
 
4) numadult and/or numchild
 
5) br1-32906=Book where "br1 is offer 1, br2 is offer 2 etc. and 32906 is the room to book.
 
== Redirect to your own property landing page ==
 
You can do this with the menu SETTINGS->BOOKING ENGINE->BEHAVIOUR.
 
Set "Booking Redirect" = Immediately
 
Set "Booking Redirect Url" = your landing page for the property. The landing page can contain can iframe with the property booking page. If you do have an Iframe embedded make sure you do not set the number of nights or people in the URL.

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