[FX.php List] Creating recurring event records

[Bob Patin]

I've got a client for whom I'm creating a room-scheduling web app for  
a college music school.

One of the requirements of the project is to be able to create  
recurring events (daily, weekly, monthly, annually).

I've already written the scheduler and the one-time schedule-creation  
script in PHP (complete with a schedule conflict checker), but now  
that I'm about to create the recurring scripts, I'm wondering if it  
might be more prudent to write FileMaker scripts and add multiple  
records via a FileMaker script rather than a PHP script.

There won't be many admins in this app (possibly only one), so I'm  
not too concerned about overlapping script commands. Because I think  
it'll be easier to do the necessary date math in FileMaker, I'm  
leaning towards writing FM scripts.

I'm looking for opinions here; I know that I can take PHP and do date  
comparisions using date manipulation there, but can't help but think  
it'll be much easier to just fire the appropriate script in FileMaker  
rather than doing all this convoluted PHP scripting.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
bob at longtermsolutions.com
615-333-6858
http://www.longtermsolutions.com
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