Travel Community Portal

This is a nice application for travelers across the world who loves to travel different places of the world. This site contains information about several tours taken by site users and site users share information about them with their friends or rest of the world. These tours can be of several natures and presented with multiple information for them in easily accessible manner. This website is basically for providing tour guide and creating tours as per the selection from the continents or location basis. This site has very rich Google Map, AJAX use for smooth & easy navigation for the users end.

Industry

Travel, Social Networking

Technology

Linux, Apache, CakePHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, AJAX, CSS

The Client

A Europe Client

The Challenge

• Providing a solution which could be able to assist site users in providing tour information in a very rich user interface as well as in easy to understand manner
• Google map integration
• Tour information PDF generation
• Tour altitude & path creation using KML
• Altitude Mapping
• Profile Management
• User Group Management
• Photos Management
• Integrating the Google Map with KML Support.
• Integrating Videos as per the tour selection.
• PDF Generation for the selected Tour & Print options.
• Managing the tours on the basis of selection from the Map for Continents.

The Solution

The solution covers all client requirements as follows:

• This site is developed in highly scalable manner using the power of MVC pattern of CakePHP framework.
• For KML & Google map integration, we have used Google APIs with a tightly coupled bridge to interact with rest of the site.
• For PDF generation, we have some of the existing HTML to PDF libraries to solve the issue quickly to meet the client requirements.
• Fully dynamic admin panel to handle the dynamic contents of the website

The Benefit

This website enables several users around the world to share their tour information with photographs, videos and many other kind of advanced information. This site has a very nice use of Google APIs and KML maps etc with PDF printing facility and helped many people around the world to share their experience easily with other people. The site helps its customers to select the tours, view the existing tours, can have a look at the Map for the particular tours and they can easily plan their tour on the basis of provided facility.