larry-lime / airline-ticket-system

This project is a simple airline ticket system that allows customers, booking agents, and airline staff to book tickets, search for flights, and view flight statistics.
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Deploy with Docker
   • Deploy Locally
3. Roadmap
4. License
5. Contact

About The Project

Built With

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Getting Started

This is an example of how you may give instructions on setting up your project locally. To get a local devlopment instance up and running follow these simple steps.

Deploy with Docker

1. Ensure you have Docker installed.

   docker --version

2. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/larry-lime/airline-ticket-system
   cd airline-ticket-system

3. Run docker compose

   docker compose up -d --build

4. Open http://localhost:8000 in your browser

Deploy Locally

1. Add a .env file to the root directory. The file should contain the following environment variables:

   MYSQLHOST=your_mysql_host
   MYSQLUSER=root
   MYSQLPASSWORD=your_mysql_root_password
   MYSQLDATABASE=airline

2. Create Python virtual environment

   python3 -m venv .venv

3. Start virtual environment

   . .venv/bin/activate

4. Install requirements

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

5. Initialize database

   flask --app airline init-db

6. Start development server

   flask --app airline run --debug

7. Open http://localhost:5000 in your browser

Roadmap

• Add icons to the frontend
• Have a form send you an email when a new user signs up
• Add foreign currency support
• Ask use to use their current location
• Generate articles based on airport locations
• Add foreign language support. Auto translate everything?
• Add ability to login with third party services (Google, Facebook, etc.)
• Add a reccomentation system for articles
  • Reccomend them based on their flight purchases (and search history if you want to store that)
  • Does not need to use machine learning. It can simply use keywords
  • Alternatively, you can use some NLP library

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

Contact

Lawrence Lim - @lawrence_lim__ - [e-mail]

Project Link: https://github.com/larry-lime/airline-ticket-system