There are few Web sites that use direct services from Sabre, Amadeus, or Galileo. Most of these sites support ASP.net and Java, which exlucded PHP. Vaganga requested PHP due to its long term cost-saving advantages.
The project needed services directly from Sabre, unlike many sites out there that collect data from other travel sites. Xillent's challenge was to create the Sabre connection in PHP and conform with Vaganga's current business model.
An important request from Vaganga was to have multiple-language support. This allows the user to toggle between languages, and helps Vaganga expand into a global market. It's important to note that Xillent had no experience working with South American API development in a foreign language. Xillent created a framework | that allows said challenge and ahas the ability to be easily updated to meet the growing company's future needs.
The client also requested an automated hotel registration tool using a highly customized calendar system with a highlighting capability. The highlighted regions and shading represent pricing, vacancy, and other attributes.The end result is comparable to Google's calendar.
Xillent created a new PHP-based programming platform. Some of Xillent's key accommodation for the new framework included direct Sabre integration, multi-langauge support, model-view control, tight JQuery Ajax capability and advance caching.
With the new structure that allows a tight JQuery integration, Xillent completed the hotel calendar within a week for | demo.
The structure of the framework takes into consideration any project that requires a clean organization of the files in a coherent structure. The outcome is a reduced debugging time for any developer who has not worked with the code before. This literally means a reduction of maintenance cost and quicker development time.
The backend of Vaganga utilizes Xillent SiteManager (TM) Content Management System. This allows Vaganga admins to go in and change the global settings and edit the content of its portal. The solution results in a light application running highly-complex services.
Xillent implemented PHP, MySQL, custom-Web platform and a custom SiteManager (TM) CMS system. |
