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Fixed start times for bookings

I would like to be able to fix the start times of booking blocks, so rather than it being an hour from the next available minute, it’s an hour from a fixed collection of times, such as 10am, 12pm, 2pm etc.

I have already amended the code to make this work for my particular case, using the following changes:

/includes/data-objects/class-wc-product-booking.php
function get_bookable_minute_blocks_for_date()
Just before this line:

// Loop ranges looking for slots within
foreach ( $bookable_ranges as $minutes ) {

I add the line:

$allowed_minutes = array(480,600,720,840,960);

This is an array of the minutes to start bookings from (8am,10am,12pm…).

Within the foreach loop I add the following:

foreach($allowed_minutes as $range_minute_check) {
if ($range_start > $range_minute_check) {
continue;
}
else {
if ($minutes[1] <= $range_minute_check) { continue 2; } $range_start = $range_minute_check; break; } } That whole function now looks like this: protected function get_bookable_minute_blocks_for_date( $check_date, $start_date, $end_date, $bookable_ranges, $intervals, $resource_id, $minutes_not_available, $get_past_times = false ) { // blocks as in an array of slots. $slot_start_times $blocks = array(); // boring interval stuff $interval = $intervals[0]; $base_interval = $intervals[1]; // get a time stamp to check from // and get a time stamp to check to $product_min_date = $this->get_min_date();
$product_max_date = $this->get_max_date();

$min_check_from = strtotime( “+{$product_min_date[‘value’]} {$product_min_date[‘unit’]}”, current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) );
$max_check_to = strtotime( “+{$product_max_date[‘value’]} {$product_max_date[‘unit’]}”, current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) );
$min_date = wc_bookings_get_min_timestamp_for_day( $start_date, $product_min_date[‘value’], $product_min_date[‘unit’] );

$available_qty = $this->get_available_quantity( $resource_id );
$current_time_stamp = current_time( ‘timestamp’ );
$availability = $this->get_default_availability();

// if we have a buffer, we will shift all times accordingly by changing the from_interval
// e.g. 60 min buffer shifts [ 480, 600, 720 ] into [ 480, 660, 840 ]
$buffer = $this->get_buffer_period_minutes() ?: 0;

// if adjacency is enabled, multiply the buffer by 2 (see https://woocommerce.com/document/creating-a-bookable-product/#section-8)
if ( $this->get_apply_adjacent_buffer() ) {
$buffer *= 2;
}

//START AMPERSAND ADDITION
$allowed_minutes = array(480,600,720,840,960);
//END AMPERSAND ADDITION

// Loop ranges looking for slots within
foreach ( $bookable_ranges as $minutes ) {
$range_start = $minutes[0];
//START AMPERSAND ADDITION
foreach($allowed_minutes as $range_minute_check) {
if ($range_start > $range_minute_check) {
continue;
}
else {
if ($minutes[1] <= $range_minute_check) { continue 2; } $range_start = $range_minute_check; break; } } //END AMPERSAND ADDITION $range_end = $minutes[1]; if ( 'hour' === $this->get_duration_unit() ) {
// Adding 1 minute to round up to a full hour.
$range_end += 1;
}

$range_start_time = strtotime( “midnight +{$range_start} minutes”, $check_date );
$range_end_time = strtotime( “midnight +{$range_end} minutes”, $check_date );
$minutes_for_range = $range_end – $range_start;
$base_intervals_in_block = floor( $minutes_for_range / $base_interval );

for ( $i = 0; $i <= $base_intervals_in_block; $i ++ ) { $from_interval = $i * ( $base_interval + $buffer ); $to_interval = $from_interval + $interval + $buffer; $to_interval_no_buffer = $from_interval + $interval; $start_time = strtotime( "+{$from_interval} minutes", $range_start_time ); $end_time = strtotime( "+{$to_interval} minutes", $range_start_time ); $end_time_no_buffer = strtotime( "+{$to_interval_no_buffer} minutes", $range_start_time ); // Break if start time is after the end date being calculated. if ( $start_time > $end_date ) {
break 2;
}

// Must be in the future
if ( ( $start_time < $min_date || $start_time <= $current_time_stamp ) && ! $get_past_times ) { continue; } $interval_not_bookable = false; // Check if any minute of block is not within not available minutes. for ( $t = $start_time; $t < $end_time; $t += 60 ) { if ( isset( $minutes_not_available[ $t ] ) && $minutes_not_available[ $t ] >= $available_qty ) {
$interval_not_bookable = true;
break;
}
}

if ( $interval_not_bookable ) {
continue;
}

// Make sure minute & hour blocks are not past minimum & max booking settings.
if ( ( $end_time < $min_check_from || $start_time > $max_check_to ) && ! $get_past_times ) {
continue;
}

/*
* We check only if the booking time will fit.
* We should check with buffer time added but unfortunatelly doing this will cause a regression.
* Time slots at the end of the day with buffers going over the day end will not be present.
*/
if ( $end_time_no_buffer > $range_end_time ) {
continue;
}

// Make sure slot doesn’t start after the end date.
if ( $start_time > $end_date ) {
continue;
}

/*
* If default availability is NO/False then it means the minutes we’re looking at has already been
* generated by using the rules so there’s no need to test availability again.
*/
if ( $availability
&& ! WC_Product_Booking_Rule_Manager::check_availability_rules_against_time( $start_time, $end_time, $resource_id, $this, $availability ) ) {
continue;
}

if ( ! in_array( $start_time, $blocks ) ) {
$blocks[] = $start_time;
}
}
}

return $blocks;
}

If this could somehow be integrated as an option it woul save me editing the core files each time and no doubt help others with this additional flexibility.

Thanks

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Open

Last updated: May 29, 2020

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