Advanced options

Searching Display Text

Text and Graphics displayed on all searching screen's

  • Searching text
  • Retrieving prices
  • Retrieving brochure

    Add a default additional currency

    If you would like a default additional currency to show

    additionalCurrency: select a currency type from the pull down list

    Customize Searchbox Text

    The text to display in the searchboxes beside the city form field
    default: City,State,Country
    Use something list City, State if you set the default search country

    Default Search box Countries
    The format is for a link is citypick.php?Country=CountryCODE the rest of the formatting is up to you.
    The sample below display's Canada, United States and Great Britain each on a new line.

    <A HREF=\"citypicker.php?Country=CA\">Canada</A><br>\n<A HREF=\"citypicker.php?Country=GB\">Great Britain</A><br><A HREF=\"citypicker.php?Country=US\">United States</A><br><br>

     

    To restrict the browse cities in the search boxes

    CityPicker Country

    Set to the country code
    ex. CA for Canada US for USA

    To set a default search country

    The Search Country option changes the way result appear to show cities in that country first. Example
    If the option is set the CA and you search for Vancouver the results will show Vancouver,BC,CA and not ask to pick from Vancouver, BC and Vancouver, WA.
    This option can be put in your setup.php or add the the code in the head section of a single page if you are using the search box on other pages. If the line is added to the setup.php it will be site wide.

    Search_Country
    Set to the country code
    ex. CA for Canada US for USA

    Customize hotelprices page header html

    Prices header text
    Below is the default prices header html

    <HR width=90% SIZE=2>Book online or Call: <B>TOLL FREE 1-888-254-0637</B><Font Size=2 Face=Arial>, USA and Canada<BR>972-894-1173, International. <B>Give Promo Code $PromoCode</B> when calling.<BR>Reservations Center Hours: Open 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week<BR>Customer Service is available Monday through Friday, 9 AM through 5:30 PM, EST (Add 5 Hours to Times for GMT)<BR>

    Customize page navigation of listings

    These only show if there are more than 10 results or if the user on not on the first page

    nexttext = "More Available Hotels <IMG SRC='images/arrow_r.jpg' BORDER=0>";


    prevtext = "<IMG SRC='images/arrow_l.jpg' BORDER=0>Previous Page";

    The distance in miles for finding nearby hotels

    maximumDistance

    Default is 10 miles

    Booking form link

    This is the text or html to display for the link to the booking form.
    bookstring

    ex. Select or <IMG SRC=mybookingimages.jpg>

    Prices page link

    link text or html for listings page to the prices page
    availability

    Same format as above for Booking form link

    Aspell Options

    If your server has apsell and your php is not running in safe mode you can spell check search queries againt a city based dictionary. on each update this file is updated with the newest wct cities.

    Full path to apsell program - unix is usally /usr/local/bin/aspell and windows C:\Progra~1\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe

    dict_path
    full path to the dict_wct file in the includes directory
    ex. \users\mywebsite\includes\dict_wct for unix

    Click test before enabling this option

    Default Calendar Dates

    Check-in default
    The number of days the default calendar is set to from today date on the server

    Check-out default
    The number of days between check-in and check-out dates

    Logging Database Queries

    LogSQL
    This is for debugging of database queries. Do not leave this option enabled as it will slow the site and make 100's of entries

    Timeout Setting

    Timeout for getting xml resutls from wct servers
    Setting this option to high will result in users not getting an error when there is a problem getting to the xml server. The default setting is 15 seconds.

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