Building a Secure Airport Transfer Booking System with PHP and MySQL

Building a booking website is much more than creating a form and saving customer information to a database. A reliable airport transfer platform needs a pricing engine, a booking workflow, payment verification, an administration panel, and a secure way to manage customer data.

In this article, I'll explore how to approach the architecture of an airport transfer booking platform using PHP and MySQL, with deployment on a typical cPanel hosting environment in mind.

Start with the right architecture

For a project that must run on shared hosting, the technology stack needs to be practical as well as maintainable.

A reasonable starting point is:

PHP 8.2 or a compatible supported version

MySQL or MariaDB

PDO for database access

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Composer for dependency management

An MVC-style application structure

The application can be organized into several…