Laravel online appointment booking: schedule, update, and cancel with email notifications.

An appointment booking system built with PHP 8+, Laravel 11, Blade, and MySQL/SQLite. Users can book, reschedule, and cancel appointments. The app manages availability (hourly slots), prevents double-booking, and sends confirmation/cancellation emails.

This project implements an online appointment booking system that:

• Lets users book appointments (guest name, email, phone, date, time, notes) with validation.
• Manages availability with hourly slots (9:00–17:00) and prevents overlapping bookings.
• Supports updates – reschedule or change guest details and status (confirmed, cancelled, completed, no_show).
• Handles cancellation from the management panel and sends a cancellation email.
• Sends notifications – confirmation on book, update notice on change, cancellation notice on cancel.

It meets requirements for booking form, calendar view, management panel, and confirmation notifications. Default database is SQLite so you can run it without MySQL.

• Appointment scheduling – Form with guest name, email, phone, date, start time, notes.
• Availability management – Hourly slots 9–17; overlap check on book/update; JSON endpoint for available slots.
• Booking updates – Edit appointment (guest, date, time, status, notes); validation and conflict check.
• Cancellation – Cancel from manage panel or set status to cancelled; cancellation email sent.

• Booking form – /appointments/book – Full form with validation.
• Calendar view – /appointments/calendar – Month navigation and list of appointments.
• Management panel – /appointments/manage – List, filter by status/date, view, edit, cancel.
• Appointment detail – View single appointment and link to edit.
• Confirmation notifications – Email on create, update, and cancel (via Laravel Mail).

git clone <your-repo-url> appointment-booking
cd appointment-booking
composer install

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

Option A – SQLite (default, no MySQL needed)

.env already has DB_CONNECTION=sqlite. Run:

php artisan migrate

Option B – MySQL

Create a database (e.g. task2_appointments), set in .env:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_DATABASE=task2_appointments
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=your_password

Then:

php artisan migrate

php artisan serve

Open http://localhost:8000/appointments/calendar

• Created – Confirmation email with date/time.
• Updated – Email with updated date/time.
• Cancelled – Email confirming cancellation.

With MAIL_MAILER=log (default), emails are written to storage/logs/laravel.log. Set SMTP in .env for real email delivery.

MIT