Hi Everyone,

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but here goes.

I have been looking for a script for a client but I can't find a suitable option.

I am wanting an online ticket booking system (box office - such as for use in a theatre or cinema). Preferably in PHP and MySQL. Allows online payment by PayPal.

Other requirements such as multiple ticket prices, multiple showings, multiple shows, booking fees.

Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks in advance.

I did a little searching around, and this is definitely not the easiest thing to find!

I couldn't find any installable software specifically for this purpose. I went to a couple sites that run online box offices to see if I could discover if they used particular scripts (usually there's something about the software in site source code), but in every case, it appears they're running custom scripts.

I searched around for outsourcing companies that specialize in ticket sales, and here's what I found.

http://www.inticketing.com/info.php?i=3282 - it looks like a POS system provider, but it mentions online sales. Maybe it's worth checking out.

http://www.ticketweb.com/tm/ticketyourevent.html - you could probably use TicketMaster to power your online venue sales, depending on the nature of what you're selling.

http://www.tix.com/online-ticket/index.asp - this looks quite promising. I'm not sure why I've listed it 3rd :)

http://www.regonline.com/ - has seating management, and looks like it's pretty scalable.

If it must be hosted by your customer, you're probably looking at a custom app. My research indicates there was once an application called phpMyTicket, but it looks like it's a dead project. This isn't the sort of thing I'd consider to be a simple or inexpensive project, particularly if want/need to have functionality that allows visitors to lock out others temporarily through their purchasing sessions (or else you might end up selling the same seats to two different people a lot). I'd try contacting venues that appear to host their own applications, find out who built them, how they are built and get a sense for what they paid. I wouldn't be surprised if the costs were somewhere in the $50-100k range, depending on scalability and features.

Thankyou for your effort. I did look at phpMyTicket and couldn't find a download anywhere.

I did find one system which could work. But would require some minor work to change it to meet exact needs. http://www.cescripts.com/event-registration-php-script/ticketbooth-event-registration-php-script/

I was assuming the client would need functionality like the ability to create venue seating charts, reserve specific seats, set pricing on a per-event basis, that sort of thing. Yeah, if a simpler application meets there needs, I can't see why it would hurt to give that script a try. At worst, you waste $60, which should barely touch a budget for this sort of endeavor!

No specific seating is needed. But with the $60 script you can set different prices for different events. I'll try it out. Might have to buy the developer licence though.

I had to do this for a price of coursework for college, its difficult and long.

I have an idea for you which i did in the end.

Scrap the PHP and MySQL approch.

You if you used C++, and ASP (.NET), you can use All the microsoft office suite to make the database, create the forms / interfaces / ect. and use visio (professional) to create the user front end.

Its quicker but you dont learn alot from it.