JSON_HotelAvail

Instructions

Post JSON data here to get room price and availability.

See here for information about using the JSON API.

Note, this function uses API JSON V1 apikey and propkey for authentication as per other JSON functions, not the OTA channel password.

Example Data

{
    "authentication": {
        "apiKey": "apiKeyAsSetInAccountSettings",
        "propKey": "propKeyAsSetForTheProperty"
    },
    "roomId": 12345,
    "from": "20241223",
    "to": "20250121"
}

Request Data Fields

Field	Description	Data Type	Required	Notes
apiKey	apiKey for account	string	required
propKey	propKey for property	string	required
roomId	room id for room	integer	required
from	from date	date (yyyymmdd)	optional	default=today
to	to date	date (yyyymmdd)	optional	default=+30 days

Response Data

Response is an array of date objects for the OTA channel with the following elements

Field	Description	Data Type
i	inventory	int	number of units available for booking
r	rates	object	rates are further grouped into objects by their ratecodes
p1 - pN	prices for the specified occupancy	number	for example p2 is a price for up to 2 people
m	minimum stay	int
mx	maximum stay	int
r	restriction type	int	0=stay through, 1=first night, 2=gap filler
c	closed	int	0=rate open, 1=rate closed
ci	checkin allowed	int	0=no, 1=yes
co	checkout allowed	int	0=no, 1=yes

Sample PHP code

<?php

/*
* The following sample uses a PHP array to construct the JSON data and php-curl to post it to the API.
* This sample will get one room with the specified parameters. 
* Change the parameters to values for your account.
*/

$auth = array();
$auth['apiKey'] = 'apiKeyAsSetInAccountSettings';
$auth['propKey'] = 'propKeyAsSetForTheProperty';

$data = array();
$data['authentication'] = $auth;

$data['roomId'] = 12345;
$data['from'] = date('Ymd', strtotime('+1 day'));
$data['to'] = date('Ymd', strtotime('+30 days'));

$json = json_encode($data);

$url = "http://soft.4twa.com/api/ota/JSON_HotelAvail";

$ch=curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1) ;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo $result;	

?>