VenueReserve - Venue & Room Booking System

VenueReserve is a self-contained PHP + MySQL script for taking venue and room reservations online, no framework, no Composer, no build step. Visitors browse your spaces, filter by capacity or date, and see a live day timeline showing exactly when a room is free before requesting a booking. Every request lands as "pending" until you approve or reject it from a clean admin dashboard, and the conflict-detection logic is enforced server-side on every submission and every approval so two approved bookings can never overlap. It installs in minutes on any standard shared-hosting PHP/MySQL stack: upload the files, import one SQL file, edit one config file, and you're taking bookings.

Features:

- Public venue browser with filters by minimum capacity and by date availability

- Interactive day timeline per venue showing booked, pending, blacked-out, and open time at a glance

- Click-to-select reservation form: pick an open gap, adjust the exact start/end time, submit

- Admin dashboard with pending-request queue and one-click approve/reject

- Server-side conflict detection re-validated on every submission AND every approval, inside a database transaction, no double-booking, ever

- Weekly recurring open-hours schedule per venue, plus one-off blackout periods for maintenance or private holds

- Optional venue photo upload, capacity, and hourly rate fields

- Public calendar never exposes visitor names, emails, or phone numbers, only availability

- CSRF-protected admin forms, hashed admin passwords, PDO prepared statements throughout

- Clean, modern, fully responsive UI built with plain CSS and vanilla JS: easy to reskin

- Works on any standard PHP 7.4+ / MySQL 5.7+ shared-hosting stack: no Composer, no CLI, no internet dependency at runtime

New in version 2:

- Recurring weekly bookings, a waitlist for full slots, and a manual payment status field per reservation

- An admin month/week calendar view and amenity tags with filtering on the public browse page

- Double-booking is now blocked at the database level with a locked transaction, not just application logic

- CSRF tokens on every state-changing form, rate limiting on login and public reservation submissions, and server-side image validation on venue photo uploads

- Database indexes, pagination on the venue and reservation lists, and a mobile-responsive nav and layout

Existing v1 customers can upgrade their database in place using the upgrade guide included with the download.

Requirements

PHP 7.4 or newer MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+

Compatibility

PHP 7.4 - 8.3, MySQL/MariaDB