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Easy On-Line Event Ticketing?

Posted by timothy on from the graveyard-tours-free-to-all-takers dept.

Ronster writes "Dear /.ers (slash-daughters?) I am looking for an elegant online solution to a real-world annoyance. I lead regular tours of my local cemetery, which I enjoy immensely. However, I hate the administration - can you recommend an on-line service, or some software (ideally open source) that I could host on my website, that would allow people to register for these tours, perhaps issue them with a ticket, and even let them cancel their reservation, all without allowing the total number of reservations for each event becoming more than, say, 25? Thanks."

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  1. Not sure of any open source software but... by mattboston · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Any good PHP/MySQL coder could do this in a couple hours work.

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    1. Re:Not sure of any open source software but... by venomkid · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Define "couple hours"... because from what this person's asking, it could get pretty complex. Any time a calendar's involved, things can get pretty hairy pretty quickly with business rules, open days, etc. Not to mention setting up a system so they can return to the site and cancel (registration? some kind of random # on the ticket?) And if registering involves paying a fee of any kind...

      The way I see it, you might be able to design this in a "couple hours". Coding, testing...

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    2. Re:Not sure of any open source software but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This was rated insightful? Holy ... Just settling on the business rules for this might take you a couple of hours so don't go around saying it can be done in a couple of hours. I try to stay away from people like you.

  2. Re:Two words... by vandalman · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I hate paying the Ticket master "tax". They add way too much to the already expensive tickets.

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