PHP with MySQL: Build Hotel Booking Management System

Install XAMPP to set up a local server with Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin for backend development, learn to start the control panel and access localhost.

Install and set up Visual Studio Code as the text editor for the hotel booking management system course. Learn downloading, installing, and launching VS Code, with mentions of alternative editors.

Explore the project design and code by outlining a hotel booking interface with header links, hotel listings, room details, a booking form, validation, and a payment flow.

Create a config file with host, db name, user, and password constants to connect to hotel booking database. Use a PDO connection with try-catch and set error mode to exception.

Create a reusable site structure by adding an include folder with header.php and footer.php, then require them on every page to save time and support future authentication.

Explore implementing sessions and validations in a PHP with MySQL hotel booking system, including session management, user menus, and redirects that prevent access to login or register when signed in.

Use PHP with MySQL to power the index page: query hotels with status 1 and display cards showing images, names, descriptions, locations, with a rooms link.

Create a rooms table with id, number of persons, size, view, beds, hotel_id, status, created_at, and image; then loop on the index page to display rooms and link to details.

Add dynamic utilities for each room in a PHP with MySQL hotel booking system by creating a utilities table and linking it to rooms, including tea and coffee and showers.

Master booking validations in PHP with MySQL, ensuring future check-in and check-out dates, proper order, and secure form submissions to store user and hotel data.

Integrate PayPal payments into a PHP hotel booking system using the sandbox, creating merchant and buyer accounts, an app with client ID, and a PayPal SDK front-end button.

Add a price column to rooms, use PHP sessions to pass the price at checkout, and enable PayPal payments with booking status and payment tracking.

Finish the payment flow by computing the date difference between check-in and checkout, multiplying by the nightly price, and recording the final price and payment via the pay page.

Implement session-based validation to prevent direct access to the pay page and add a 404 page to gracefully handle invalid room IDs with a home page redirect.

Explore dynamic room listings by hotel, linking from the index to rooms.php, retrieving rooms by hotel_id with PHP and MySQL, and navigating to room details to start booking.

Develop and display each user's bookings by pulling data from the bookings table using the session user ID, render with a Bootstrap table, and enforce per-user access with session checks.

Fix and clean up the hotel booking system by validating file names, using count to display bookings or a bootstrap alert, and standardizing navigation with app URLs.

Develop an admin login for the hotel booking system using PHP and MySQL, building an admin panel with header and footer layouts and a login form with password verification.

Fix the admin panel styling by correcting the base URL for style.css and updating admin links, then implement session protection and fetch all admins to display on the admins page.

Create and manage admin accounts within the hotel booking management system by building an admin creation form, validating inputs, hashing passwords, and inserting admins into the database.

Build the index page to show counts of admins, hotels, rooms, and bookings using SQL count queries in PHP, retrieving data via the config connection.

Display hotels data by converting the show hotels page to PHP, looping through all hotels, and rendering name, location, and status with dynamic update and delete links.

Create hotels guides you through building a form to capture a hotel's name, description, location, and image, then insert it into the hotels table and upload the image to hotels_images.

Update hotel statuses to control visibility on user end by selecting a status (0 or 1) and updating the hotels table using the hotel id.

Update hotels in the PHP with MySQL hotel booking system by editing name, description, and location, with data prefilled from the database and submitted by an update form.

Delete the hotel and its image in PHP by getting the id, deleting the image with unlink from hotel_images, and removing the database record.

Build and manage hotel rooms with an admin panel in PHP and MySQL, displaying rooms, statuses, and actions to create or delete rooms.

Create a dynamic room form in PHP with MySQL, link to hotels, upload room images, and insert room data (name, price, persons, beds, size, view) with hotel id.

Update a room’s status by submitting a form that passes the room id and chosen status to rooms.php, which updates the database and refreshes the rooms view.

Delete rooms and their images via the admin panel by using the room id to delete the image from room_images and remove the room record from rooms.