Rentora - Car Rental Booking System PHP Script with Admin Dashboard

Rentora is a complete car rental website and booking system built with plain PHP and MySQL. Customers search the fleet, choose dates, pick protection and extras, and book online. You manage everything from a clean admin dashboard. There are no frameworks and no Composer: upload the files, open the web installer, and you are live in about a minute.

Front End:

Full-screen hero slider with a search bar, fleet page with smart filters (dates, price range, brand, body style, transmission, fuel, seats), quick-view panel with a live price quote, full car pages, booking form with pick-up and drop-off locations and times, protection plans and extras, customer booking lookup with cancellation, saved cars, and contact form with spam protection. Fully responsive.

Payments:

Pay at pick-up, bank transfer, Stripe Checkout (with signed webhook), and PayPal. Online payments are confirmed server to server before a booking is marked paid.

Email:

Confirmations, status updates, and receipts for customers, plus alerts for administrators. Works with PHP mail, SMTP, or a log mode for testing.

Admin Dashboard:

Revenue, bookings, fleet utilisation, charts, today's pick-ups and returns, bookings and customers, fleet and categories with photo upload, and message inbox. Edit all website texts, logo, hero image, and brand colour without touching code. Settings for currency, tax, prices, locations, and rental limits.

Security:

CSRF protection, prepared SQL statements, rate limiting on login, booking, lookup, contact, and payments, re-encoded image uploads, and a self-locking installer.

System Requirements:

PHP 8.1 or newer, MySQL 5.7 or MariaDB 10.3, Apache with .htaccess support (Nginx rules are included in the documentation). HTTPS is recommended for payments.

What's Included:

Full source code, database schema, web installer, 16 demo cars with photos (optional), and complete documentation (docs/index.html).

Images and Fonts:

Demo vehicle photos are from Pexels (Pexels License). Fonts include Inter and Space Grotesk from Google Fonts (SIL Open Font License).