How to set up a hotel reservation form in a WordPress page

Alex — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:00:22 +0000

A few days back I was asked by a client to set up a hotel reservation form in his WordPress powered website. The problem is easy to solve and implement. This tutorial consists of setting up a WordPress custom page template and some php for a Hotel reservation page.

By the end of this tutorial you will know hot to set up a hotel reservation page, a restaurant reservation page or anything that requires a reservation inside WordPress.

Step #1 – Set up a WordPress custom page template

This is fairly easy to do. Go inside your WP theme root and simply duplicate the page.php file and name it anything you want. I renamed my file reservation.php.

Next you need to delete everything in the page loop. So head over open up your reservations.php and delete this:

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		 the_title(); ?>
			
				 the_content('Read the rest of this page »
'); ?>
 
				 wp_link_pages(array('before' => 'Pages: ', 'after' => '
', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
 
			
		
		 endwhile; endif; ?>
	 edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '', '
'); ?>

The next thing to do is to tell WordPress there is a custom page template named reservations.php. To do this simply copy and paste the following before the get_header(); tag.


    /*
    Template Name: RESERVATION
 
    */
    ?>

So you got something like this:

    
    /*
    Template Name: REZERVARI
 
    */
    ?>
 
 get_header(); ?>

Next go inside your WordPress dashboard and add a new page, on the right you will have a option to select a custom page template. Select RESERVATIONS like in the image below.

Step #2 Setting up the reservation php code

Now the only place you will need to work is the reservation php file. Go and edit the file and copy/paste this code where the page loop was.


		Online Reservation 

 
 
To make a online reservation to one of our hotel rooms please fill out the form below:
 
 
                    
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        
 
                      
 
                        
 
                        First Name:* 
Last Name:* 
                      
Phone:* 
                      
E-mail: 
                      
Room number: 
 
												
                      
Room: 
												
                      
Arrival date: 
                        
Departure Date: 
                        
Other comments: 
                        
                      
                         
                        * required fields
                        

 
 
                            
                        
                    
 
 
      
 
 
 
if ($_POST['trimitecontact'] == "yes")
{
	$nume = $_POST['nume'];
	$prenume = $_POST['prenume'];
	$telefon = $_POST['telefon'];
	$email = $_POST['email'];
	$cam = $_POST['nr_camere'];
	$tip = $_POST['camera'];
	$di = $_POST['data_intrare'];
	$die = $_POST['data_intrare'];
	$mesaj = $_POST['observatii'];
 
	$message = "This reservation is from:\n" .
	"------------------------------------------------------------\n" .
	"First Name: $nume\n" .
	"Last Name: $prenume\n" .
	"Phone: $telefon\n" .
	"Email : $email\n".
	"Room Number: $cam\n" .
	"Room: $tip\n" .
	"Arrival Date: $di\n" .
	"Departure Date: $die\n" .
	"Other Comments : $mesaj\n".
	"\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\n" ;
	$uself = 1;
	$subject = "New room reservation at your hotel";
$headersep = (!isset( $uself ) || ($uself == 0)) ? "\r\n" : "\n" ;
$http_referrer = getenv( "HTTP_REFERER" );
$mailto = 'CHANGE@THIS.TOYOUREMAIL' ;
$ip = getenv(REMOTE_ADDR);
mail($mailto, $subject, $message,
	"From: \"$nume\" <$email>" . $headersep . "Reply-To: \"$nume\" <$email>" . $headersep . "X-Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.08" );
echo ' Quote sent';				
}
?>
 
   
 
The reservation will be considered after receiving payment.

And this is the result:

Note: You must set the action=”/reservation” of the form imput to match your custom page php name. Ex. if I have a custom page php called joomla.php i would rename the action to action=”/joomla”.

Remember to chage the $mailto = ‘CHANGE@THIS.TOYOUREMAIL’ ; to your desiered email where the messages will come.

First Name:*
Last Name:*
Phone:*
E-mail:
Room number:
Room:
Arrival date:
Departure Date:
Other comments:
	* required fields

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