Checking availability and booking

2014-09-26T12:05:56+02:00

Checking availability and booking General information MDSWS maintains an internal data cache of operator data. This means that in the offers response, some prices will be out of date. Once the end user has selected a offer, a check request must be submitted to MDSWS. This will cause a live request to be made to the operator and so an up-to-date price will be returned.

Cancelling reservation

2012-10-04T13:14:39+02:00

Cancelling reservation The action (function) bookingcancel cancels the reservation, when it is possible. WARNING: Cancellation possibility, and possible costs, should be checked beforehand with action bookingcheckcancel. Sample inquiry: LOGIN PASSWORD bookingcancel ITAK 6345224

Checking possibility of cancelling reservation

2012-10-04T13:02:05+02:00

Checking possibility of cancelling reservation The action (function) bookingcheckcancel checks possibility and costs of cancelling the reservation. WARNING: Cancellation may still lead to possible costs. Sample inquiry: LOGIN PASSWORD bookingcheckcancel ITAK 6345224

Checking the status of reservation

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Checking the status of reservation The action (function) bookingstatus returns the current status of reservation. Sample inquiry: LOGIN PASSWORD bookingstatus GREC 976272 1

General information

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General information Following actions are used to book in version 4 of webservice [WebService address]/bookV4/ Example addres: List of possible action types Action (link to detailed description)Descriptioncheckavailavailability check simplifiedcheckavailability check

Checking availability (simplified)

2012-06-18T14:40:10+02:00

Checking availability (simplified) Action “checkavail” is a simple version of action “check”, in order to obtain the availability of a specific list of times/hotels, where can be check multiple offers in a row. Example of query: LOGIN PASSWORD checkavail 05e168d7b6144142125ff99c1d4faa3d6a30eaee64f0233e835d8e85fba93022 2

Print the reservation

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Print the reservation Action confirmationprint returns a link to a PDF containing data of reservation. Print is generated to agencies number that access (login) the MDS service. Sample query: LOGIN PASSWORD confirmationprint ADR 82578

Examples

2015-09-18T09:39:25+02:00

Examples Requirements To run the sample code you need PHP5 with the following modules: * SimpleXML * XMLWriter * cURL Availability checking The following code sample checks the availability of the offer, and it displays the price and possibly additional information from the organizer.

extradata

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extradata Action extradata returns a field extra_id needed when setting up on some of the organizers of the service Merlingate WSDL. If you return the item with the attribute extra_data type=“Extra” specify the contents of the line multi-function for checking the availability of the Merlingate.

booking form - general rules

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booking form - general rules WARNING: When filling the form fields do not use local language characters. Local language characters must be converted to their ASCII equivalents - “ó” -> “o” etc. To simplify, only a selected fragment of returned form is explained, but same rules apply to the rest of responce.

Confirmation for Optional reservation

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Confirmation for Optional reservation To confirm a reservation which is optional, please send a request with type optionconfirm and give an organizer and a reservation number. LOGIN PASSWORD optionconfirm ITAK 111111 TEST …

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