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By seaneffel on
Ok kids,
Lets see if anyone has attemped to make this module yet, before I try to string something together.
What I need is a solution for a small, non-profit cinema to automatically list all the showtimes of all their films once per week. It would have to do these things:
1. List a set of reoccuring showtimes for each film across a couple of days. For example, Brokeback Mountain plays at 5, 8, 11PM on Mon - Thurs. That information should only need to be listed once. The Events.module can handle a little bit of this, but not all.
2. Display this info in a calendar or weekly calendar layout.
3. Embed a link to purchase tickets for each showtime.
4. Import this data from a CSV or XML or any other sort of text file generated from their booking software.
So, is this the kind of job that a modified events.module could do for us? Has anyone tried something like this before? Are there other uses for this module beyond cinema, such as schools, sports and fitness centers, adult ed classes, etc?
If anyone has a lead for me then this would help us out greatly!
Sean
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this sounds good!
Other uses would be for school plays, church events, business seminars, the list goes on and on.
I have a need for this very thing but know nothing about php.
How about adding maximum seating capacity;
allow % over maximum capacity to register (for no shows);
then allow 'reservations' - up to maximum capacity - for each event?
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Example;
Event: The Main Event
times: Today at 6pm, tomorrow at 6pm and 8pm
Max capacity: 200
__________________________________________
M A K E R E S E R V A T I O N S (form)
Which Event? (drop-down list) Today 6pm; Tomorrow 6pm, tomorrow 8pm.
How many seats would you like to reserve? _____
Your e:Mail address (to confirm reservations): ___________
(submit) (cancel)
____________________________________________
After the form was submitted the amount reserved would be subtracted from the Maximum Capacity. Then the Remaining Capacity could be displayed somewhere on the Make Reservation Form.
Just a though . . . B U T . . . I have seen several other post for people asking about this very thing so I know it would be widly accepted.
I currently have a site who
I currently have a site who displays movie showtimes for a big city.. so many theaters with many movies.
I am working to port the site to drupal.
The whole thing will consist break up in three modules:
-A movies module: It's basically a content type to display movie info (can user movie review) or you can create your own content type for a play, or any other type of event..
-A theater module: To list all the venues.. i have many cinemas but if you have just one.. perhaps you don't need it..
-A shows module: The show module actually links the movie to the theater with a detailed schedule.. here's where the work is gonna take place..
I'll start working on it in a couple of weeks. If anyone is interested, contact me.
Zis, Did you manage to get
Zis,
Did you manage to get anywhere with the module?
I would also like to see the
I would also like to see the movie times displayed for the users location. For example, if a user registers with the site and fills in 12345 as the zipcode, it would display all movie theaters in a X mile radius with the times that movie is showing.
Is this possible?
Hi ! Have you had any
Hi !
Have you had any progress on this module? I have a very similar need...
Cheers,
Francisco
A Little Late....
Even though it's a bit late, you can accomplish all those things with a combination of the following modules:
- Views: List of Showtime nodes
- Views Bonus: Export to CSV
- Calendar: Display the information in a calendar view
- CCK: Put in some fields for movie details
- Computed Field: Generate a link to purchase the tickets
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