jQuery Bus Seat Boking

jQuery Bus Seat Boking is a full-blown seat map library. It will generate an accessible map, legend, handle mouse & keyboard events and finally give you powerful selectors to control your map.

Simple demo map

Example:

Basic setup:

$(document).ready(function() {

	var sc = $('#seat-map').seatCharts({
		map: [
			'aaaaaaaaaaaa',
			'aaaaaaaaaaaa',
			'bbbbbbbbbb__',
			'bbbbbbbbbb__',
			'bbbbbbbbbbbb',
			'cccccccccccc'
		],
		seats: {
			a: {
				price   : 99.99,
				classes : 'front-seat' //your custom CSS class
			}
		
		},
		click: function () {
			if (this.status() == 'available') {
				//do some stuff, i.e. add to the cart
				return 'selected';
			} else if (this.status() == 'selected') {
				//seat has been vacated
				return 'available';
			} else if (this.status() == 'unavailable') {
				//seat has been already booked
				return 'unavailable';
			} else {
				return this.style();
			}
		}
	});

	//Make all available 'c' seats unavailable
	sc.find('c.available').status('unavailable');
	
	/*
	Get seats with ids 2_6, 1_7 (more on ids later on),
	put them in a jQuery set and change some css
	*/
	sc.get(['2_6', '1_7']).node().css({
		color: '#ffcfcf'
	});
	
	console.log('Seat 1_2 costs ' + sc.get('1_2').data().price + ' and is currently ' + sc.status('1_2'));

});

Basics:

Building maps is fairly easy with jQuery Seat Charts, you can literally pass an array of strings which represents succeeding rows. Let's take a look at a theatre example:

//Seat map definition
[
	'aaaaaa__DDDDD',
	'aaaaaa__aaaaa',
	'aaaaaa__aaaaa',
	'bbbbbb__bbbbb',
	'bbbbbb__bbbbb',
	'bbbbbb__bbbbb',
	'ccccccccccccc'
]

Each single character represents a different type of seat and you have a freedom of choosing anyone but underscore _. Underscore is used to indicate that there shouldn't be any seat at a certain place. In our example I chose a seats to be the closest to the screen, D meant for disabled and b and c as just plain seats. I also built a corridor in the middle of our theatre, so people can conviniently reach their seats.

Your chosen characters can carry a hash of data which is a great way to pass crucial seat details such as price or a description that you want to show on hover.

seats: {
	a: {
		price       : 24.55,
		description : 'Fair priced seat!'
	}
}

Once you build your map and define seats, you can start implementing the booking magic.