Joomla Appointment Scheduling

May 14th, 2010

Overview

hitAppoint online appointment scheduler can be fully integrated into a Joomla-powered website. Integration includes appointments customer view in your Joomla website, admin backend inside Joomla admin, user accounts integration and single sign-on.

Please note that this help guide applies to hitAppoint version 4.1.3 or newer. Get the latest version from http://www.hitcode.com/clients/

Joomla version 1.7

hitAppoint Joomla Component Installation

I assume that you already have Joomla installed
Install hitAppoint in a separate folder
In hitAppoint admin panel, go to Settings >> Info and take notice of the hitAppoint Path value.
In hitAppoint folder, open the core/integration/joomla/_conf.php file to edit. You will need to enter the path to your hitAppoint installation that you have seen in the previous step. It is defined just on top of the code. Finally your line will look like this:
define( 'HITAPPOINT_PATH', '/home/algis/www/hitappoint' );
In this core/integration/joomla folder zip everything but the joomla.php together to one zip archive, name it com_hitappoint.zip for example.
Log in to Joomla as administrator, in the administration panel go to Extensions Manager
Upload your new zip file created in step 5 in the Upload Package File form, click the Upload File & Install button

Then you will see:
Test the admin part
In order to your customers to access hitAppoint, make Joomla menu for hitAppoint component. Go to Menus -> Main Menu -> Add New Menu Item.

Then select menu item type System Links -> External URL

Type in your title, for example Appointments.
Fill in the Link with the following code:
?option=com_hitappoint

Now link to hitAppoint component appears in Joomla frontpage.