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[Codger]

Hi all,

If I use a 'book now' button I am taken to the first available date but the form head says "No vacancies at this time!" If I then select a different available date from the drop-down it works OK and if I then return to the first availble date it also now works.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something? http://www.cottageholidayswales.com/availability

Codger

[Vince]

See this change which I believe resolves that problem:

https://jomres.trac.cvsdude.com/Jomres_core_v4/changeset/730

[Codger]

Thanks, Vince. I am grateful for your response.

However, I don't appear to have that file. 

This is how it looks:-
http://www.cottageholidayswales.com/changeset730.gif

I am probably being very dumb here - sorry.

Codger

[JK1]

Perhaps you are running an old version of Jomres?  See here: https://jomres.trac.cvsdude.com/Jomres_core_v4/changeset/579/jomres/libraries/jomres/functions

I think before v4.2 it was in /httpdocs/jomres folder, but I'm not shure.

[Codger]

I am running 4.2.1 lite

Codger

[Codger]

Vince, what have you done to this topic? After the first page, "next" takes us to a different thread!

Codger

[JK1]

If you are still searching for the dobooking.php file, you could install the eXtplorer on your website: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/file-management/2630

If the file is in one of your website's directories, it will find it when you use it's search utility.

[Codger]

Thanks JK1 for the suggestion.

I have located the file at /jomres/dobooking.php but the line numbers don't match the r711. The code $load['ONLOAD']="show_log();"; is at line 391 on my version. I tried making the change there but it threw an error, so I reversed the change. 

Codger

[Vince]

Sorry JK1 but the changes you note will only affect a 4.4 or greater version of Jomres. Lite is still using the old "two pass" method of processing the booking form.

[Codger]

Forgive me Vince, but I am unsure what to conclude from this. Is 4.2.1 Lite broken, then?

Codger

[Vince]

No, it just means that if you go into an SRP that uses fixed period bookings from the book now link the room internally isn't fully initialised (if I understand your problem correctly). It works ok from the availability calendar and it works fine in MRPs in any configuration.

There is some code in play to correct the issue, and as far as I know it works ok, but for some reason it's not working for you. The code's in j00015viewproperty.class.php and it is as follows:

$url=JOMRES_SITEPAGE_URL."&task=dobooking&selectedProperty=$property_uid";
if ( (($mrConfig['fixedArrivalDateYesNo']=='1'|| $mrConfig['fixedPeriodBookings']=='1')) && !isset($tmpBookingHandler->tmpsearch_data['jomsearch_availability_departure']) ) // We'll add an invalid arrival date if the fixed arrival date setting is set to Yes. This way we can force the booking engine to see the arrival date is wrong and it'll rebuild the available rooms list, which it doesn't if the date is correct when coming from the Book a room link.
  $url.="&arrivalDate=2009-01-01";

What that's doing is
1. Setting the url to the booking form
2. Asking if a number of scenarios aren't met. If they're not, add an invalid date to the end of the url. Doing this completes the initialisation internally.

By the sounds of it, for you that invalid date isn't being added to the url.

I believe that JK1 has a number of properties with a similar configuration, to the best of my knowledge this isn't an issue at all in 4.(5 with the change noted above).

[Codger]

Thanks for the response - it is appreciated.

I can confirm that the code you quoted is present and correct.
I can also confirm that (for me, at least) the date suffix is absent from the displayed url. However, if I add it (the code date of 2009-01-01) manually it still shows "No vacancies at this time!".

I have been testing different date suffixes and it appears that it behaves as expected only when the (invalid) date is in fact available. To me this seems natural enough, but I do understand that coding is not that straightforward.

Does this information give anyone a clue to where the problem might lie?

[cdwm]

I'm running 4.4 and am having this issue as well at http://hlcenterprises.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=3 and I did make the change from the previous post.

I have a fake booking for March 12-14 set up for testing purposes. So if you choose those dates and click search, the booking form correctly displays that "We have no vacancies" (besides the incorrect date being carried from the search form-I'm working on that separately) which is correct.

If you change the dates to a week later for instance, it still displays "no vacancies" yet adds the Accommodation Total of ( x nights ) and displays all pricing correctly, letting you proceed with the rest of the form.

[jskillet]

I'm also running 4.4 and having the same problem. If anyone gets this figured out, please share what you did to resolve this. It will be much appreciated.

[Gecko]

For the two posts immediately above this one, I think that http://forum.jomres.net/index.php?topic=2979.0 solves your problem.