1. Booking Virtual Tickets:
http://students.info.uaic.ro/~iuliana.cotofrei/web2/
ViTi Cinema Tickets

2.  ViTi is a Web application that offers registered
users (via Facebook) the possibility to book
tickets for the theater/cinema, selecting the
desired seats. Also, the application sends e-mail
confirmation invoice in HTML and PDF formats
for reserved seats.

3.  What does this application
use?
 HTML
 PHP
 JavaScript
 XML to store information
 CSS
 Facebook API
2 PHP libraries:
 FPDF, to create a ticket in
PDF format in a simple way
 PHPmailer Lite, to attach
the ticket to an email and
add HTML formatting

4.  The user is authenticated by signing in with his
Facebook account.
 The Facebook user’s e-mail address is easy to
obtain via Facebook’s API once the connection is
established.
 The obtained address is used to automatically fill
in an e-mail verification form before sending.
 The purchasing of tickets is done by selecting the
desired cinema, movie, seat location and date
from a form.

5.  Facebook authentication is done via e-mail and
name.
 The e-mail is taken on as a variables in
JavaScript. Logging in and e-mail confirmation
are written in JavaScript and are done client-side.
 The server also retains the e-mail of the user and
puts it to use into its PHP code. The client and
server have to communicate to get these
variables.

7.  After submitting, the application checks to see if
the information is valid. For instance, it will not
create a ticket without the ID of its owner.
 Afterwards, the user is asked to specify an e-mail
address to which the ticket will be sent. This is, by
default, the address used in the Facebook
account, but it can be edited so as to send a
ticket to someone else.
 The sent e-mail is in simple HTML format and
contains an attached PDF file with information on
the person attending the show, the name of the
cinema, date and movie.

8.  The application executes another part of PHP
code to write down the information inside an XML
file.
 This is done simply by recognizing the names of
the fields, drop-down menus or radio buttons and
writing down the information in the fields.

9.  The PDF file is created just before the message is sent,
using FPDF to extract information from the XML file.
 It is attached to the message using PHPmailer Lite.
 Out PDF file will contain a logo, the specification that this
ticket was bought using ViTi and the following data:
o the owner's name,
o the cinema,
o the movie,
o the date,
o seat,
o and seat number.

11.  The PDF ticket is created using FPDF, a library
which can create PDF files from various sources.
Here, we used the information from our XML file.
 The web application then shows a confirmation
message before returning to the virtual ticket
booking page.

13.  Thank you for your time, and for using ViTi 4th
Dimension Cinema Tickets!
Authors:
 Cotofrei Iuliana, 3rd year class 3B
 Serban Diana, 3rd year class 2B