Design And Implementation Of Online Cinema Booking System

ABSTRACT

As businesses are getting better, and many lifestyle changes. The movie community has not changed preferences. Many people still queue to pay for placement to watch movie in cinema houses. For those who hated queuing, they would buy a VCD or DVD to watch at home. The introduction of e-services has shown that e-commerce website can promote a trendy way for people to perform booking/reservation. As far as the subject matter is concerned, online booking systems can be developed for bus stations, airports, hotels, cinemas and other centers that engage in reservation. However, in this research, we developed an online booking system for cinema house called FLOW entertainments. We used Hypertext MarkUp Language, Cascading Style Sheet and JavaScript for the front end and MySQL database as the back end; and PHP as the scripting language. The designed system was implemented using the XAMPP package. XAMPP comes with the Apache as the server, NetBeans and Dreamweaver CSS were used at the customer-side for the development. The developed system was successfully tested on a computer system with a 4 gigabyte RAM and a DUAL CORE processor with a processor speed of 2.16GHz.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

APPROVAL PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWELDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE

• INTRODUCTION
• BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT
• PROBLEM STATEMENT
• OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
• RESEARCH QUESTION
• SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
• SCOPE/LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
• DEFINITION OF TERMS
• APPLICATION OF THE STUDY
• PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
• PROJECT ORGANISATION

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

• OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY
• HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF E-BOOKING SYSTEMS
• REVIEW OF RELATED WORKS
• OVERVIEW OF FILM

CHAPTER THREE

METHODOLOGY

• SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
• TECHNOLOGICAL DESIGN OF THE SYSTEM
• ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF THE SYSTEM
• MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION

CHAPTER FOUR

4.1       IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF THE DESIGN

4.2       USER INTERFACE DESIGN

CHAPTER FIVE

• CONCLUSION
• RECOMMENDATION
• REFERENCES

CHAPTER ONE

1.0                                          INTRODUCTION

This project is aimed at developing an online ticket reservation system for Cinema Halls. The Ticket Reservation System is an Internet based application that can be accessed throughout the Net and can be accessed by anyone who has a net connection. This application will automate the reservation of tickets and enquires about availability of the tickets. This application includes message confirmation for the tickets.

1.1                                 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Online cinema booking system is basically made for providing the movie ticket anywhere and anytime and gets information about the movies online. The user can easily be able to know about the movies released and then make a choice.

It is a web-based system. The customers can buy ticket online and cancel the seat at a suitable time (2 days before the show to 1hour before the show). To enhance the refund function, all the customers have to register to become a number before buying the ticket. Staff can use the system to insert and delete data (example film description, time table) which will update the webpage. Also staff can check the statistic information from the system.

The system is to provide an alternate and convenient way for a customer to buy movie tickets. It is an automatic system. After the data has been fed into the database, the staff does not need to do anything with the order once it is received through the system.

The name “movie” originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay and flick.

Today, it is believed that the application of computer technology in any activity would go a long way in making that activity much easier.

To the researcher, this statement remains a theory until proven otherwise by the implementation of online movie ticket reservation system.

It also believed that the benefit and advantages of using computer out weight that of the manual methods beyond doubt by the researcher through the implementation of the new system.

1.2                                 PROBLEM STATEMENT

The major problem that give rise to this research project faced by cinema hall are:

(i)          Late seats reservation by customers.

(ii)        Fluctuation of network service.

(iii)      Inability to book seat by computer illiterate customers.

(iv)   Corrupt and tactical customers who have ways of sneaking into the cinema hall with fake seats number printout.

1.3                        OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The study sought to provide an alternate and convenient way for a customer to buy movie tickets. Specifically, the study sought to;

1. To establish an efficient way to promote the film on the internet.
2. To minimize the number of staff at the ticket box.
3. To increase the profit and obtain statistical information from the booking record.
4. To provide an anytime, anywhere service for the customers to book their movie ticket.
5. To create a reliable database of movies in the case study with their description.

1.4                                           RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. How can cinema online booking system establish an efficient way to promote the film on the internet?
2. Can cinema online booking increase the profit and obtain statistical information from the booking record?

1.5                                 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This research project will be unnecessary if it does not have significance to humanity. The newly designed system is faster, more convenient and you do not have to go to station twice. Online ticket reservation is always a safe option, unless the website is insecure. Booking online ticket is safe if the company you plan to use, uses a Secure Server Software (SSS). This basically hides year private information from there. It saves a lot of money in printing cost because the company do not need to printout ticket to give to customers which get binned after the film anyway. It also saves a lot of time for the customers because, they do not need to arrived early to queue for ticket in case they are all sold out. This study provides:

• Complete information of the movie and schedule to the customer, according to which he can book the tickets.
• An easy option for the customer who is willing to book tickets online for a movie.
• Recommendation and suggestion for best theatre available in city.
• Better user interface as displaying movie in transition way, through which user will see current movies detail very quickly which helps to reduce decision of user.

1.6                                 SCOPE/LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

This research project is restricted to the design and implementation of cinema online system using Tropicana as the case study.

Limitations of study

1. Financial constraint– Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).
2. Time constraint– The researcher will simultaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This consequently will cut down on the time devoted for the research work.

1.8                                 DEFINITION OF TERMS

In order to do away with ambiguity, some terms and keywords in the context of this research are here by defined.

Implementation:  Is the building of system and installation to ensure that it solve a particular task.

System: Is a combination of related parts into a complex whole.

Database: It is a collection of interrelated data stored together with controlled redundantly to serve one or more application in an optional fashion.

Reservation: Is the act of reserving something e.g hotel accommodation, a seat on an aero plane, in a theatre.

Ticket: Is a piece of paper, cardboard, etc, showing that the holder is entitled to certain rights, such as travel on a train or bus, entry to a place of public.

Internet: Internet (international network of computer) is a system of computer network connected to one another from different parts of the world, forming a very large network. Internet is an example of global area network.

Online: This is when something is connected to a computer or controlled by a computer or to the Internet.

Protocol: This is the agreed method computer used to communicate with each other. It can be also define as a convention or agreement between the operating system of two machines on what messages may contain.

Cinema: a movie cinema/theatre or movie house.

Server: This is a program or a computer that responds to request from other program and delivers the requested document. It can also be defined as a central computer that supervises the control of the network activities of other computer on a network.

Telebooking: booking done via a phone.

 WebPages: This is an individual page on the Internet. Every time you click on a link you are taken to a new webpage.

Website: It is a collection of related files this term describes a particular company’s users, or organization’s web pages served up by a web server.

1.9                            APPLICATION OF THE STUDY

Some major areas of application include;

1. Hotel for booking rooms
2. Cinema houses

• Airport for booking tickets

1. Event Organizations for football shows and concert seat reservations
2. Bus and train bookings
3. Used in making reservations in healthcare

1.10                                              PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

The purpose of the project is to put in place new solutions as per the end user expectations; so that the accuracy, speedup, digitalization of the system will be enhanced. To do this:

• Provide anytime anyplace service for the customer.
• Provide effective solutions for easily availability of movie tickets.
• Provide simpler way to choose our seat and area for movie show
• To minimize the number of staff at the ticket box.
• To promote movies the movies on the web.
• Try to increase profit as much as possible

1.11                                            PROJECT ORGANISATION

The work is organized as follows: chapter one discuses the introductory part of the work,   chapter two presents the literature review of the study,  chapter three describes the methods applied,  chapter four discusses the results of the work, chapter five summarizes the research outcomes and the recommendations.