Mini Project

Report on
MULTIPLEX THEATER ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM
Submitted by
SREEJESH.P.V
RAMEEZ.E.A
YASEEN ASHRAF.U.T
NIJIN RAJ.A
in partial fulfilment for the award of the
Degree of
B. TECH DEGREE
in
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
KOCHI-682022
MARCH 2014

Mini Project Report

On

MULTIPLEX THEATER ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM

Submitted by

SREEJESH.P.V
RAMEEZ.E.A
YASEEN ASHRAF.U.T
NIJIN RAJ.A
in partial fulfillment for the award of the Degree
of

B.TECH DEGREE
in

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY KOCHI- 682022
MARCH 2014

Division of Computer Engineering

School of Engineering
Cochin University of Science& Technology
Kochi-682022
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CERTIFICATE
Certified that this is a bonafide record of the
project work titled

MULTIPLEX THEATER ONLINE BOOKING

SYSTEM
Done by
SREEJESH.P.V(12120085)
RAMEEZ.E.A(12120070)
YASEEN ASHARF.U.T(12120092)
NIJIN RAJ.A(12120053)

of VI semester Computer Science & Engineering in

the year 2014 in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the award of Degree of Bachelor of
Technology in Computer Science & Engineering of
Cochin University of Science & Technology

V.DAMODARAN
PAVITHRAN
Project Guide

PRAMOD
Head of the Division

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I take this occasion to thank God, almighty for blessing me with his grace
and taking our endeavour to a successful Culmination. I extend my
sincere and heartfelt thanks to my esteemed guide, Mr.V. Damodaran,
for providing me with theright guidance and advice at the crucial junctures
and for showing me the right way. I extend my sincere thanks to my
respected Head of the division Mr.Pramod Pavithran, for allowing me to
use the facilities available. I would like to thank the other faculty members
also at this occasion. Last but not the least, I would like to thank my
friends and family for the support and encouragement they have given me
during the course of this work.
Rameez E.A
Sreejesh.P.V
Nijin Raj.A
Yaseen Ashraf.U.T

ABSTRACT
Our project basically manages the ticket booking process of a
multiplex, providing an interface to the user to book movie tickets in
a more easy way. At the front end we have used PHP and at the
back end My SQL server. The project proceeds through a sequence
of well-designed forms provided with validations to ensure
consistency, reliability and most importantly correctness of
information fed into the database.

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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 OBJECTIVES
Cinema-going is one of the
most

popular

out-of-home

cultural activities, affecting a

serious of social, economic
and cultural phenomena in
modern societies. Cinemas
are considered to be an
integral part of cities and
they

contribute

definition

of

to
a

the
local

geography and identity. They

also

contribute

to

the

preservation of the collective

memory,

since

they

constitute a significant social

and cultural practice linked
to a specific place, which
acts as a common reference

or

landmark

for

many

individuals.
Through
present

this
a

project

we

comprehensive

solution for ticket booking in

multiplexes.

Theater

management

system,

an

online ticket selling software

that is easy to understand,
easy to use and offers the
simplicity of fast point-andclick

service

to

the

customers.
This powerful software
program

is

specifically

designed for theater owners,

to sell tickets online. This
intuitive

visual

interface

makes day-to-day aspects of

selling,

exchanging,

refunding, and reporting fast

and easy for both the user
and administrators. Theater
management

controls

all

back-end functionalities like,

movie details, ticket rate and
show

time,

customer

information and sales history

saved in a database, etc.
Theater admin manages the
report details like counter
wise report, daily, weekly,
monthly report and movie
report etc.

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1.2 LIMITATIONS
Our project has the following
limitations:1. In this system the
customer

will

not

select seat number.

The

authorized

people

in

this

process will be the

employee who works
at the cinema.
2. In this system the
customer can book
the tickets only for
the present day.
Advanced booking
for the upcoming
movies (2 or 3
months before the
movie is released) is
not included but can
be included later.
3. Also,

printing

system will not be in

this project. In future,
a

ticket

printing

system

can

be

integrated.
4. The customers who
have
tickets
the

booked
must
multiplex

the
reach
30

minutes prior to the

show time or else
ticket

will

get

cancelled.

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CHAPTER 2
STUDY OF EXISTING SYSTEM
For studying the existing system on ticket booking, we conducted a case study
on a major ticket booking venture present today in India.

2.1 A case study on KVR Cinemas:An Online Ordering, Payment And Loyalty Management Solution For Krishna
Village Roadshow (KVR) Cinemas
KVR Cinemas has broken many national records in field of cinema exhibition.
Their theatres, the first chains of multiplexes in the country, boast of the highest
box office collections in India for 5 consecutive years. The cumulative admissions
till date have exceeded more than 6 million movie goers.
KVR Cinemas is a brand name synonymous with state-of-the-art cinema
exhibition in India. It started operations as a joint venture between Krishna
Exhibitors and Village Roadshow Pictur distribution conglomerates. KVR Cinemas
specializes in developing and operating state-of-the-art Multiplexes and has been a
pioneer in multiplex development by setting up India's first - KVR Anupam 4, at Saket in
city of Delhi.
Over the last three years, KVR Cinemas has established itself as a very strong
brand associated with movies, quality exhibition, food and youth targeted
promotions. The company presently has 4 multiplex theatres with 12 screens in
the city of Delhi with another 7 screen theatre under construction in city of
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Gurgaon, which is the fastest

growing suburb in India. By
attracting a record number of
urban

middle

&

upper

income consumers to the

complex, major national &
international brands - have
opened their outlets in the
multiplexes, making KVR the
destination

for

complete

family entertainment.

Situation
Faced with an increasing
number

of

standing

in

customers
long

queues

outside their theatres, KVR

faced

the

challenge

of

providing

"Customer

Delight".

Customers

desperately wanted a easy

way of ordering and paying
for their tickets without the
delays and inconvenience of
standing in long queues.KVR
needed

mechanism

to

administer

their

loyalty

program "The KVR Movie

Club", as well as provide for
other

promotional

and

membership services to help

partners

maximize

their

presence at the multiplexes.

KVR

Cinemas

had

introduced phone booking

but it was not to prove
viable, as customers were
often "no-shows", leading to
un-sold seats. This affected
business profits.

Solution
1. Movie Ticket Booking
over the Internet
In response to the KVR
Cinemas requirements, we
proposed
solution

an

Ebusiness

using

Microsoft

Platform which would enable

movie goers to book their
tickets electronically over the
Internet from the comfort of
their office or home. With the
advent of the modern age,

the typical user didn't have

enough time to stand in line
outside the theaters. The
online solution allows users
to select their

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shows, book and pay for

their tickets. This guarantees
them a ticket even before
they arrive at the cinema
hall.

2. Secure electronic
booking through bank
payment gateway
Customers

were

provided

with a convenient option of

booking tickets through the
Internet via a secure channel
using Verisign SSL (Secure
Socket Layer) and for the
first-time

the

customers

experienced the advantages

of

an

electronic

ordering

system. This feature enabled

customers to get confirmed
tickets online from the web
site

by

making

payment

using their credit card or

debit cards. Trisoft integrated
the

online

transaction

seamlessly with the bank

Payment Gateway Server.

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In order to market
the website to the customers
and increase the customer
base

for

online

booking,

KVR Cinemas introduced the

concept of a movie club for
those users who register
themselves

as

members.

Once a customer becomes a

member, they are allowed to
buy tickets within minutes
using their credit cards and,
can participate in contests
and win prizes. Members
can

also

subscribe

newsletters

to

containing

movie-related

events

and

movie charts.

3. Statement of Account
and Payment
Reconciliation
The

application

provides

the

facility

also
to

generate an end-of-month
statement

of

transactions

executed by the system.

This helps the KVR staff to

reconcile their accounts with
the

Citibank

Payment

Gateway and has drastically

reduced the time-consuming
process

of

manual

reconciliation.

4. The Technology
The

website

Microsoft

runs

Windows

on
2000

Server and Microsoft SQL

Server

2000.

It

receives

more than 200,000 hits a per

day and has the capacity to
cater

to

250

concurrent

users at any given time.

Benefits
The

movie

portal

has

benefited KVR in many ways

out of which a few have
been outlaid below:

Convenient
online
ticket
booking
through the Internet,
which in turn leads

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to more, and repeat

customers and
shorter queues.

Access to information
and

other

related
news

movie-

promotional
through

the

newsletters.

Increased
Operational
Efficiency
painless

through
transaction

reconciliation at the
month end.

Online

Brand

extension
projecting
savvy

by
a

image,

techand

appealing

to

Generation

consumers

who

spend a lot of time

browsing the Internet.

The

Club

memberships

Class

through

the

portal

have built successful

and

lasting

relationships

with

customers who are

provided with special
services
contests,

like
loyalty

points
redemption

and
against

exciting gifts, home

delivery of tickets at a
nominal cost, online
account maintenance
and more.

2.2 Proposed System

We propose a
system which is more
reliable, entertaining
and easy than the
present system.

Our solution targets

those users who do
not have spare time
to stand in queue for
booking tickets. We
propose an easy way
of
ordering
and
paying for the tickets

without any delays

and inconvenience.

The people who book

tickets are assured of
a ticket before going
to the theater without
their
physical
presence.
Customers who book
tickets will receive an
instant message (mticket) in

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their mobile phone.

By splashing this mticket at the counter
of multiplex, the
customer can get the
physical ticket.

The

staff

at

the

multiplex no longer
needs
complicated
manual
ticket
availability
and
tracking mechanisms
for issuing tickets.
The ticket information
is stored securely in
a database which
can be accessed any
time for verification.

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Chapter 3
DATABASE DESIGN
The
phase

database-planning
begins

customer

when

requests

to

develop a database project.

It is set of tasks or activities,
which decide the resources
required in the database
development and time limits
of different activities.

3.1 SOFTWARE
REQUIREMENT
SPECIFICATION(SRS)
3.1.1 Collection of
Requirements
Requirements

analysis

is

done in order to understand

the problem, which is to be
solved.
important

That
activity

development

of

is

very
for

the

database

system. The requirements

and the collection analysis

phase produce both data

requirements and functional
requirements.

The

data

requirements are used as a

source of database design.
The

data

requirements

should be specified in as
detailed and complete form
as possible.
In
specifying

parallel

with

the

data

requirements, it is useful to
specify the known functional
requirements

of

the

application. These consist of

user-defined operations that
will

be

applied

to

database

(retrievals

updates).

The

the
and

functional

requirements are used as a

source

of

application

software design.

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The Data-requirements are

given as follows :User Module

User Registration
User Register with
Name, A
Username(for
logging in
later),Password,
Phone Number, Email address.

User Login
User Can Book the
Ticket After Log in.

User Login with User

Name and Password.

Forgot Password use

for
Retrieve
Password.

Check Availability

After Login, User,

Can Search Movie
From Movie List.

User Can Check

Ticket Availability.

User can also check

the Movie Running
Hours.

If Ticket is Available
User
Can
Book
Ticket.
Book Ticket.

User can book ticket

by
specifying
username and Phone
Number.

Then Select Number

Of Seats to Book.

conformation

Message

will

be

sent to the Given

Number.
content
message

The
of
is

the
as

shown below:Film
nameRandom
5 letter
CodeShow
Time

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Admin Control:

Admin User Login.

Admin User Login
with Admin User Name
and Password.

Show Manage.
Admin Can Change
Show Name and
Show Time.
Movie Mange.

Admin Can Add New

Movie.

Admin Can Edit Old

Movie Details.

Admin Can
Movie.

Delete

Schedule Manage.

Admin Can Add New

Movie Schedule.

Admin
Can
Edit
Movie Schedule.

Admin Can Delete

Movie Schedule.

User Manage
Admin Can control
the signed up users

Admin can delete the

account of users

who didn't show up

for the movie after
booking tickets.

Counter Control

Counter
Employee
Login with Counter
User
Name
and
Password..

Counter
type
shown

the

Employee
message
by

the

Customer in the field

given and confirm the
user.

Tickets are issued

from the Counter.

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3.1.2 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

1. The schedule of the movies will be generated via a query according to the
data selected by the user.
2. A way in which users(both customer & admin) can login to the system to
perform different operation.
3. A way in which the customer can commi method.
4. The system can verify the data before transaction.

3.1.3 SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Intel core i3 2nd generation is used as processor because it is faster &

provide reliable and stable working environment.
A RAM size of 1gb is used as it will provide fast reading & writing
capabilities.

3.2 CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

Once all the requirements have been collected and analyzed, the next step is to
create a conceptual schema for the database, using a high-level conceptual data
model. This phase is the conceptual design. The result of this phase is an EntityRelationship (ER) diagram. It is a high-level data model of the specific application
area. It describes how different entities (objects, items) are related to each other.
It also describes what attributes (properties) each entity has. It includes the
definitions of all the concepts (entities, attributes) of the application area.

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3.3 Logical Design

There are rules how the ER model or class diagram is transferred to relation
schemas. The relation schemas are the basis for table definitions. In this phase (if
not done in previous phase) the primary keys and foreign keys are defined.

While preparing the logical design part, we applied relational data model.
To do this, we decided to use MySQL Server.

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Activity Diagrams
1. Booking Tickets

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3.4 IMPLEMENTATION
The various system tools
that have been used in
developing both the front
end, back end and other
tools of the project are being
discussed in this chapter.

3.4.1 FRONT END:

JSP, HTML, CSS, JAVA
SCRIPTS are utilized to
implement the frontend.
Java Server Page (JSP)
Different pages in the
applications are designed
using jsp. A java sever page
component is a type of java
servlet that is designed to
fulfill the role of a user
interface for a java web
application.
Web
development write JSPs as
text files that combine HTML
or XHTML code, XML
elements, and embedded
JSP actions and commands.
Using JSP, one can collect
input from users through
web page.
HTML (Hyper Text Markup
Language)

HTML is a syntax used to

format a text document on
the web.
CSS (Cascading Style
Sheets)
CSS is a style sheet
language used for describing
the look and formatting of a
document written in a
markup language.
Java Script
JS is a dynamic computer
programming language. It is
most commonly used as part
of web browsers, whose
implementations allow clientside scripts to interact with
the user, control the browser,
Communicate
asynchronously, and alter
the document content that is
displayed.

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PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also
used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code is interpreted by a
web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the resulting web
page: PHP commands can be embedded directly into an HTML source document
rather than calling an external file to process data.

3.4.2 BACK END

The back end is implemented using MYSQL which is used to design the
databases.
MYSQL
MySQL is the worlds second-source relationalmostdatabasewidely us management system
(RDMS). The SQL phrase stands for structured query.

3.4.3 SMS GATEWAY

An SMS gateway allows a computer to send or receive short message services
(SMS) transmissions to or from a telecommunications network. Most messages
are eventually routed into the mobile phone networks. Many SMS gateways
support media conversion from email and other formats. A direct-to-mobile
gateway is a device which has built-in wireless. GSM connectivity. It allows SMS
text messages to be sent or received by email, from web pages or from other
software applications by acquiring a unique identifier from the mobile phone's
subscriber identity module, or "SIM card". Direct-to-mobile gateways are different
from SMS aggregators, because they are installed on an organization's own
network and connect to a local mobile network.
The connection to the mobile network is made by acquiring a SIM card number
from the mobile operator and installing it in the gateway. Typically, direct-tomobile gateway appliances are used for hundreds to thousands of text messages
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per month. More modern

appliances now offer the
capability of send up to
100,000 messages each
day. Several vendors that
have historically provided
GSM Gateway equipment for
voice also have SMS
capability. Some are more
primitive than others. The
more capable devices are
designed
with
SIM
management to regulate the
number of SMS messages
per SIM, ODBC to connect
to a database, and HTTP
interfaces to interact with
third party applications.
Text messages can be sent
from a personal computer to
mobile devices via an SMS
gateway, using most popular
email client programs, such
as Eudora, Thunderbird, and
so on. The messages must
be sent in ASCII "text-only"
mode. If they are sent in
HTML mode, or using nonASCII characters, they will
most likely appear as
nonsense on the recipient's
mobile telephone. Before the
message can be sent, one

must determine the domain

of the mobile carrier's SMS
gateway.

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CHAPTER 4
USER INTERFACES
4.1 FIRST SCREEN

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CHAPTER 5
TESTING
We tested our program with the help some SMS Gateways.
In this Project SMS are sent to the Customer by the ClickatellsSMSGateway.
Clickatell's SMS gateway can be used to SMS-enable any application, website or
system and send messages around the globe with a variety of connection options.

Test Reports are as given below:

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TEST NO.1

DATE:10-03-14

SCENARIO: For Checking the message receival, Our Website was hosted locally.
Logged in with username a booked for the Movie ABC.

SMS Gateway Used: Ozeki Message Server

Outcome: It is found that the Ozeki server is found to be not responding. Test was
repeated for about 5 times. But no reply was obtained.

Table 5.1 Test Number1

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TEST NO.2

DATE: 20-03-14

SCENARIO: For checking the message receival once again with a different SMS
Gateway. Logged in with username ab booked for the Movie ABC.

SMS

Gateway

Used:

Clickatells

Outcome: Message was received.

Table 5.2 Test Number 2

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CHAPTER 6
CONCLUSION
Nowadays, traditional reservation ways of where technology dominates human life. With the
software and technological
devices, exceptions are reduced and even terminated. Also, people prefer easy,
quick and safe way for every part of his life. This project is designed to meet the
requirements of a cinema ticket booking system. It has been developed in PHP
and the database has been built in My SQL server keeping in mind the
specifications of the system.
In our project: with this cinema ticketing system; cinema companies can satisfy
comfortable facilities to their customers. The relationship between cinema
manager, employee, and customer satisfy a good communication to complete
ticketing process. With this platform we developed, we are hoping to reduce time
wasting, avoid misunderstandings, provide easy data flow, customer pleasure,
and less hard work. We believe that we have accomplished our goals and
satisfied with the code we developed.

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