[FX.php List] Creating recurring event records

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

I made two table, one with dates( actual happenings ) and one with
reoccuring dates for lookup.

ggt667

On 9/29/07, Roger Price <rp272 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
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