About Squash-Central.com
Squash-Central.com was started by students in March 2005 to provide an online squash court booking service to members of the London School of Economics squash club. Since then the site has grown to provide additional online functions including the ability to cancel bookings, a booking fee facility for guest bookings, a squash ladder and ranking system, an internal messaging system and more.
Since inception in March 2005 we have seen the following levels of use:
Annual Memberships
| Squash Club | Membership Name | Number of Members |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | ||
| 220 | ||
| 411 | ||
| 406 | ||
| 371 | ||
| 433 | ||
| 408 | ||
| 0 | ||
| Total | 2,255 | |
Number of Booking Transactions
| Year | Bookings | Bookings/day | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004/05 | March 2005 - October 2005 | 193 | 1 |
| 2005/06 | October 2005 - October 2006 | 6,834 | 19 |
| 2006/07 | October 2006 - October 2007 | 6,384 | 17 |
| 2007/08 | October 2007 - October 2008 | 6,234 | 17 |
| 2008/09 | October 2008 - October 2009 | 9,599 | 26 |
| 2009/10 | October 2009 - October 2010 | 7,223 | 24 |
| Total | 36,467 | ||
Average number of bookings/membership: 16.17
One of the current Squash-Central.com projects is to adapt the platform for use by multiple squash clubs. If you are interested in using Squash-Central.com at your club (and we are particularly keen on hearing from other universities and colleges) then please let us know. If you are interested in helping to maintain and develop the code then we would also like to hear from you.
We hope you have found Squash-Central to be a useful resource and if you have any comments or suggestions, please contact us.
We would like to give a big thanks to the open source community which has made Squash-Central.com possible easily and inexpensively. Squash-Central.com is hosted on a Linux machine running on the Apache HTTP Server, written with PHP scripting language, managing all the data in a MySQL database, and tested for use with the Firefox browser. And, of course, there is a temendous number of other open source applications behind these making all of this possible.
We are also attempting to update the code to XHTML standards and appreciate the validation service provided by W3C.
