Online Vacation Package Booking Software Specification
**Context**
We are building online booking for vacation packages, and we require contract programming help in implementing the booking process. The successful bidder will work with our lead booking engine programmer to implement a supplied graphic design and the software to drive the booking process. The booking process itself will be implemented in PHP, communicating with the booking engine API in order to retrieve vacation packages selected for booking, collecting information from the online client necessary for booking a package, then completing the booking process.
Contractor knowledge required: PHP and SOAP-PEAR package
**Project Specification**
Project Tasks:
* Using the graphic design and Use Case provided, write a technical design documentation with diagrams describing in detail how the software implements the booking process
* Milestone: upload design document for review
* Write a test plan that describes how the booking process will be tested in order to ensure its reliable operation
* Milestone: upload test plan for review
* Implement PHP driven forms to drive the booking process.
* Thoroughly document the PHP code
* Milestone: review forms code and documentation
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Booking Process**
The booking process is the most complex and important part of the Vacation Package Booking Engine to implement because all financial data must be absolutely correct.
**Booking workflow**
Once information about the saved itinerary and booking details have been collected via PHP accessor methods, the contractor will use these to construct the following forms:
1. Insurance options page
2. Summary form page that retrieves information from user's loaded profile and pre-populates it in the form.
3. Receipt page
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.
3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).
## Platform
**Contractor Development Environment
**The target server environment is Linux.
* PHP Version 5.2.x
* SOAP-PEAR package installed and configured to work with PHP (soap enabled, dom enabled, xml enabled)
* Apache 2.x web server (optional)
* Limited SSH access to staging server containing PHP files necessary for development