Build an Appointment Booking System With Laravel

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01. Introduction

01. Introduction and demo

02. Fresh project with Pest

02. Core functionality

03. How we build up availability

04. Employees and services

05. Employee schedules and exclusions

06. Setting up appointments

07. Working with date periods

08. Iterating over requested days in a period

09. Adding schedule availability

10. Subtracting employee schedule exclusions

11. Excluding time already passed

12. Writing tests for schedule availability

13. Generating slots

14. Building the service availability generator

15. Adding employees into slots

16. Removing empty slots

17. Removing slots with booked appointments

18. Using a custom date collection

19. Writing tests for service availablity

03. Building the booking UI

20. Base layout and Tailwind setup

21. Listing employees

22. Listing services for an employee

23. Scaffolding the checkout

04. Building the availability calendar

24. Installing Alpine.js

25. Installing and using easepick

26. Disabling unavailable dates

27. Showing available slots on the calendar

28. Requesting available slots

29. Fetching available slots

30. Displaying and selecting a slot

05. Booking appointments

31. Hooking up customer appointment details

32. Disabling future steps

33. Storing an appointment

34. Handling appointment collisions

35. Redirecting to a confirmation page

36. Building the appointment confirmation page

37. Cancelling an appointment

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okay this might be pretty obvious to you but we're going to go ahead and set up a fresh Laravel project now with pest we're going to run these tests so we make sure that everything is working then we can get building okay so we're going to go ahead and use the Laravel installer to create a new

00:12

project called Laravel booking system let's go ahead and choose no starter kit here and of course we'll choose pest for our tests although you can change that over to phpunit and we won't initialize a git repository just yet okay so once that's done we're going to go ahead and choose mysql as

00:26

our database and we're just going to wait for everything to finish up okay now that's done let's open our project up and we can get started on doing everything that we need to do so let's go ahead and run our migrations first just to get them out and running we

00:39

don't have the database created so let's create that first of all and if we add over to the database you can see we've just got the standard stuff in here okay so in terms of running our pest test the first thing that we're going to do is come over to

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phpunit.xml and we're going to make sure that we are using xqlite and the in-memory database drive that's really important so we don't go ahead and insert anything into our actual database while we're testing

01:07

so if you're new to testing and you're new to pest let's go over to our test directory and you can see that we've got two example tests already here written in the pest functional style so we can go ahead and just run pest on the command line if you don't

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already have this you might need to go ahead and create an alias for this something like this and save that out and let's go ahead and run pest so there we go we've got two tests working and of course that shouldn't have created anything in the database because

01:35

we've now swapped this over to use xqlite so before we get started i'm going to go ahead and get rid of these two tests we can use the command line to create any tests that we need a little bit later on and to be honest that is pretty much it we should now have

01:49

an application up and running that we can start to build our core functionality in so in the next section we're going to focus on this core functionality and we're going to build up all of these custom classes that we need to get this working

02:01

and then once we've done that we can go ahead and build the ui on top of it so there we go a really simple lara application setup our tests are running so we can make sure everything's working properly and still working if we make any changes

37 episodes•4 hrs 49 mins•1 year ago

Overview

Building an availability calendar and booking system is a notoriously difficult problem to solve. That’s exactly what we’re going to cover in this course.

Step by step, we’ll build an appointment slot generator that calculates availability based on employee schedules, employee’s booked time off, the length of service chosen, existing appointments, and cancelled appointments.

For maximum flexibility, we’ll also allow multi-employee availability checks, so we’ll be able to see every employee who can perform a service (and their available slots).

To finish up, we’ll build a simple UI with Alpine.js, with a beautiful booking calendar that shows detailed availability across multiple dates, the ability to choose a time slot — and finally the ability to book an appointment.

Phew. We’ve got a lot to learn — let’s build a booking system with Laravel!

Alex Garrett-Smith

Alex Garrett-Smith

Hey, I'm the founder of Codecourse!

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