[FX.php List] Creating recurring event records

[Roger Price]

Bob

I was faced with a similar request from my University department, but did 
not have the time necessary to complete by the required deadline.

I elected to use an open source solution using PHP and MySQL. While I love 
FileMaker to bits I could not see the point of reinventimng the wheel so to 
speak.

If you are comitted to creating a FMP solution then you might find how this 
application deals with the issues by looking at the source code at: 
http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/

I downloaded the package in the morning and had it up and runing by the same 
afternoon - I got lots of 'brownie points'. It has been in use for over a 
year now and is very stable and easy to use.

kindest regards

Roger
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com>
To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 5:45 PM
Subject: [FX.php List] Creating recurring event records


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
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