Top 5 PHP event scripts for events websites in 2021
Event promotion and ticket selling websites are on the rise in 2021 with online tickets selling now taking bigger market sharing than traditional tickets sale. This is still a not so well exploited web market niche offering the opportunity to create local or country specific event sites and monetize them by charging the premium listings and advertisements or charge commissions on the tickets selling.
We review below some top PHP scripts, which can help you to build your own event site or to add an event calendar or tickets selling functionality to your existing site.
1) Event Portal - https://www.netartmedia.net/eventportal/
The unique feature about Event Portal is that it works like event mall where multiple companies can sign up, post their events and sell their tickets. The administrator / site owner can monetize the website by charging the companies for listing their events, make the listings featured, charge commissions on the tickets sales, charge for banners on the website or put ads from external systems like Google AdSense or similar.
Event Portal includes multiple features for creating seat maps for the events, sell tickets, generate tickets with barcode, download the tickets in .pdf files, see statistics about the sold tickets, accept registration for the events without tickets and many others.
The script is provided also with the full not encrypted source codes, so any developer can modify them and also free technical support and free installation service.
Please visit https://www.netartmedia.net/eventportal/ to find out more and check the script demos
2) Maian Events - https://www.maianevents.com/
Maian Events is a PHP event listing and calendar script, which you can download for free, however you need to purchase a license for commercial uses.
It allows you to showcase your own event calendar on your site. Some of its main features are - View events by day or month, Add pages, themes and menu boxes for layout control, Fast, responsive HTML5 system for mobiles / tablets, Approve events before they are live, List plans and payments via Paypal, Categories, sub categories, events & images and others.
If you would like to use Maian Events for a commercial site, then the single site license is currently priced ar $45 and the white label license at $799.
3) Easy PHP Calendar - https://www.easyphpcalendar.com/
Easy PHP Calendar is one of these scripts allowing you to create your own calendar with events and show it on your site.
Easy PHP Calendar comes with multiple styles, which you can configure in the way you prefer on your site - standard, mini agenda, annual and blog. Some of its other features include - user groups, each user group has definable permissions for what they can view, edit and more, multilingual, date and time formats and also the texts (such as month and day names) can be modified for almost any locale, rich event descriptions, full WYSIWYG editor lets you add full HTML including links, image tags, text formatting and more, integrated web installer and others.
Easy PHP Calendar is currently priced at $20 and has + $10 fee if the branding is removed.
4) PHPJabbers Event Ticketing System - https://www.phpjabbers.com/event-ticketing-system/
The Event Ticket System allows to automate the booking and payments on your event site, so it can be convenient if you organize events and would like to sell online tickets on your site for them.
Some of its other features include the possibility to create multiple ticket types (paid, donation, free, early bird, etc.), upload seat maps, manage bookings, process different offline & online payments, issue invoices, create PDF tickets, launch promo codes, and use the built-in barcode reader.
The price of the script with the encrypted source codes is $65 and with the not encrypted sources $120
5) SimplePHPScripts Event Script - https://simplephpscripts.com/event-script-php/
This script allows you to create different event categories on your site and list events in them and tickets information. It currently doesn't include functionality to sell tickets online or generate tickets with barcodes or export them in files. Some of its other features include fully responsive front-end, search bar - readers will be able to search and find the exact event from the list of results, option to allow visitors to also submit their events, social sharing buttons, rss feeds and others
The script is currently priced $40 for the single website license and $150 for the unlimited website installations license.