Meeting Room Booking System

Meeting Room Booking System (MRBS) is a free, GPL, web application using PHP and MySQL/pgsql for booking meeting rooms. This project is similar in concept to Netscape Calendar, but much cheaper!

MRBS is very reliable at this point. All the features that are needed in day-to-day operation are included. It's very intuitive for users, so very little or no instruction is needed. It is in production use at many large organisations around the world for uses as diverse as it's originally intended meeting rooms to restaurant tables and aeroplanes at a flying school!

Different languages are supported, there are translations for many languages available (currently Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish). If your language is not supported it is very easy to customize as all strings are stored in language-specific files.

Features:

• Web/Intranet based - Available from any workstation through a Browser
• Simple to follow, Web based options and intuitive presentation
• Flexible Repeating Bookings
• Authentication with your existing user database (eg Netware, NT Domain, NIS etc.)
• Ensures that conflicting entries cannot be entered
• Reporting option
• Selectable DAY / WEEK / MONTH views
• Multiple auth levels (read-only, user, admin)
• Multiple languages supported (translated to Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish)
• Stable and in use at many organizations
• mySQL and Postgres support

What is new in this release:

• This version can skip conflicting bookings when making repeat bookings.
• It adds AJAX on the booking entry form for checking for scheduling and policy conflicts.
• The LDAP authentication scheme now allows all config parameters to be set separately for each configured LDAP system.
• A tabbed dialog has been added that can be displayed to give more details of schedule and policy checks on the booking form.
• Various pages are now sortable, searchable tables.
• Admins can also do bulk deletes from a report.
• This release adds support for booking to be created and modified by dragging in the day and week views.

What is new in version 1.4:

• Added Hungarian internationalision, in preparation for an offered translation.
• Removed all HTML entities apart from   from the translations, so that the flawed PHP function html_entity_decode() doesn't need to be used in the email sending code - solving a problem when running MRBS with PHP 4.
• Booking highlighting is now performed with CSS rather than JavaScript by default, except in IE6, which doesn't support the appropriate CSS feature. This improves performance in IE7/8, and makes the highlighting not depend on JavaScript, which is good.
• After making a booking (change), you now return to the view you came from, be in day, week or month.
• Improved highlighting of booking links in month view.
• The day/week you're browsing is now maintained as you change between day, week and month views, as far as is possible. This so-called "sticky day" is highlighted in the mini-calendars also.
• "Plus" graphics for adding new bookings are now not shown by default.
• Fixed bug that stopped correct booking of meetings when in "periods" mode. Reported and solved by Chris Cook.
• Fixed bug in the add booking screen that caused selection of multiple rooms to not work, and a similar bug that stopped selection of booking type in the report screen.
• Fixed bug in the date selector.
• Deleted .cz translation, in preference of the .cs translation, which is the right language code.
• Added Dutch FAQ, provided by Cor Marjee.
• Translation updates for Slovenian (Martin Terbuc), Dutch (Cor Marjee), Italian (Erica Maria Peressini), Turkish (Ahmet YILDIZ), Spanish (SoTMaR), French (Alain PORTAL), Japanese (MATSUURA Takanori).
• Improved display of the trailer.
• Implemented a configuration option for a simple trailer, as suggested by Chris Cook.
• Improved layout of the "type" colour key.
• The area select box is no longer shows if there is only one area.
• Fixed some problems shows up by 1.4beta1.
• MRBS now validates as HTML 4.01 Strict, a lot of this work is courtesy of Claudio Strizzolo.
• MRBS now uses CSS for all styling, courtesy of sterling effort by Campbell Morrison.
• Improved default styling, courtesy of Campbell Morrison.
• Added Simplified Chinese translation, provided by 'sunjunps'.
• Made the MySQL database use an explicit database connection throughout.
• Updated Japanese translation, provided by MATSUURA Takanori.
• Added Basque translation, provided by Juan Ezeiza Gutierrez.
• Updated Postgresql schema to match the MySQL one.
• Improved HTML and SQL escaping throughout.
• Improved code style/indenting throughout.
• Improved form handling, individual form components are now pulled out as their expected types, improving security.
• Improved way in which MRBS calls the database, to make things tidier/safer.
• Improved print preview functionality, now use a print media CSS stylesheet.
• Updated German translation somewhat.
• Added server time to the help page, to help diagnose time zone issues.
• Improved the output of the "browser language" section in the admin page, and show it in the help page too.
• Fixed a bug in the 'mysqli' database abstraction.
• Added default duration configuration variable to the config file, to allow administrators to change it without editing the MRBS code.
• Corrected short PHP tag in testdata.php.
• Improved security of 'cookie' session scheme - utilises Crypt_Blowfish PEAR module.
• Fixed AIX internationalisation function, patch provided by bwiberg in SF tracker #2057646.
• MRBS now encodes the subject of emails correctly.
• Moved the translation of strings used in MRBS emails into the lang.* files, where they belong - most languages now have no translation for these strings.
• Changed default booking slot configuration to give half-hourly slots from 07:00 to 19:300, with the last slot being 18:30->19:00.
• Fixed a bug that made all-day bookings not reserve the last slot in the day.
• Help, report and search pages now show the logon box in the header.
• Fixed HTML escaping of period descriptions, period descriptions must be valid HTML in config.inc.php.
• Bookings that cover more than one slot now show as merged slots in day and week views, replacing the previous "ditto marks" behaviour.
• Fixed a number of issues that were reported during the 1.4 beta phase.
• You can now set the timezone that your meetings run in from config.inc.php. In some configurations this must be done to get proper DST behaviour.
• The 'db' authentication scheme now ensures that usernames are unique.