Meeting Room Booking System http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------- The Meeting Room Booking System (MRBS) is a PHP-based application for booking meeting rooms (surprisingly!). I got annoyed with the piles of books which were being used to book meetings. They were slow, hard to edit and only at the reception desk. I thought that a nice web-based system would be much nicer. Some parts of this are based on WebCalender 0.9.4 by Craig Knudsen (http://www.radix.net/~cknudsen/webcalendar/) but there is now very little which is similar. There are fundamental design goal differences between WebCalendar and MRBS - WC is for individuals, MRBS is for meeting rooms. ------ To Use ------ See the INSTALL file for installation instructions. Once it's installed try going to http://yourhost/mrbs/ - if you loaded the sample data, this should give you a view of the first area meeting rooms for today. The (+) symbol means you can add new meetings by clicking there. Try it - it should all be pretty obvious. If you haven't loaded the sample data, start by clicking on Admin to add your Areas and Rooms. By default, anyone can connect and only demo users "alice" and "bob" can add new meetings (passwords "a" and "b"), and only connections from user "administrator"/"secret" are administrators. Only administrators can add rooms and areas, and modify any other users' meetings. See AUTHENTICATION for a more complete description of the authentication. If you copy testdata.php into your web site, you can view http://yourhost/mrbs/testdata.php - it will generate a whole load of random appointments to fill up the calendar and let you play around. (Don't leave testdata.php in your web site, though.) The latest version was tested with PHP 4.3.2, Apache 1.3.28, and either MySQL 4.0.14 or PostgreSQL 7.2. It should work on just about anything that's got PHP4 with MySQL or PostgreSQL support but PostgreSQL 7.3 and above. MRBS has also been somewhat tested on PHP 5.1.2, MySQL 5.0.18 and Apache 2.2.0, using both the mysql and mysqli database access methods. It should be pretty easy to adjust it to your corporate colours - the file mrbs.css is used on every page, as is style.inc. Just fiddle with these until you get the result you like. See COPYING for licensing info. See NEWS for a history of changes. See AUTHENTICATION for information about user authentication/passwords. ------------- Requirements: ------------- - PHP4/5 with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL support - MySQL or PostgreSQL - Any web server that is supported by PHP Recommended: - JavaScript-enabled browser - CSS-enabled browser - PHP module connection to the server (also called SAPI) if you want to use any of the basic http authentication schemes provided. (If you are considering porting MRBS to another database, see README.sqlapi) Warning: - Some users reported errors using some accelerators (APC, PHP Accelerator). If you get messages like this : "Internal Zend error - Missing class information for ...", your accelerator is the cause. ------ Usage: ------ The current project maintainer reports using it at work with about 150 clients. Many other reports of successful use have been seen on the MRBS mailing list, and your report would be welcome there too. Let us know who is using MRBS! $Id$