I'm developing a web page where students, after registering, can introduce their school schedule, mark test and calculate averages. My problem is:
how do I do for each user to have their own schedule, calendar etc. I could be simple for you but I'm having difficulties solving this.
This is how I want schedules menu to look
all the data introduced for the schedule will show up on the table
You have to look at how a relational database works.
Everything you're trying to do is use a foreign key.
IMHO best way to achieve this is to register user ID+name in $_SESSION then, when he reaches the page, retrieve schedule from where it's stored. Depends also on the schedule/calendar format
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I want to make a website that users can register for classes.
the rule is that one user can't register in one class that is concurrent with registered classes.
how can I implement it?
Is is solvable in query? or php code?
You can solve this problem using PHP and a query to your database. You will query the database to retrieve a list of Date-times for each registered course for that user.
Once you have the list, you can use PHP code to check if the time and day for the course the user is attempting to register for falls between any of the times in the list from the database.
I am trying to build an online attendance system where employees sign in and check in daily except for weekends and vacations.
so , my idea was to create a daily attendance record as a table in the database.
Attendance_date_daily date
Employee_ID number(auto generated)
Check_in_time time
Check_out_time time
Attendence_status varchar
I am using codeigniter v 3.0.0
it's easy to create a model to get the current time and save it in the database when the user check in/out.
but the problem is that, if the user was absent for a day or more , then the system will not create a record for those days.
moreover, i can't create the records beforehand. since i don't know when the user will have his/her vacation and working days may differ.
what is the best way to create and manage those daily records?
One possible solution may be to allow the employees to do their check-in each day normally which would populate the database for those days.
In order to add the absence records for those who have not checked in you could use CRON or something similar to schedule a task at perhaps midnight each day. Use this task to target a url that would run a method in a controller that will check employees against the daily records. Obviously for those whom have checked in no action will be performed, although for those who have not and are not marked as on vacation or not working you update the database to add the absence records.
With a system like this you would typically invoke the url to perform the update using whatever system you use with wget or something similar to 'load' the url and force it to run. A security consideration also would be that you'll want to add in a secret key as a GET parameter or something similar so that the method can check that it's being invoked via the task and not e.g. someone visiting the url by comparing the GET parameter with a stored key that you've set.
I'm developing a basic ERP in PHP for a small firm, they need to maintain accounts of 2 separate companies within it. Working in Code Igniter as I am most familiar with that framework.
I need to allow the user to be logged in on both companies at the same time accross tabs, how can I ensure that while saving data from one form it only posts to that company's records? I'm using only one db, with 2 users - hence user_id will be the foreign key in all tables.
I need to ensure that when saving an invoice of one company it doesnt take the other company's user_id, which may happen if i use sessions.
Would the best approach be to use hidden user_id fields on all forms? Or is there any other method I can use for this?
Thanks :)
You can store the company id in the url, so in the one tab you have
/edit/company/1
and in the ohter
/edit/company/2
Then you can let them choose either one of the companies, and make sure that id is at every url. Make sure that the correct permissions are set though, if you maintain a lot of users/companies.
i think that you can use a global variable, bool i guess and always check after session_start() whether is company 1 or 2
I currently maintain a DB table of users, when after logging in I update the table with their ID and login_time. This works to a point but currently I can't tell if the user has been active since the login or for how long.
Is there a better way to get a complete list of users that have been active in the past X minutes?
The best way to get what you need would be a "Last Activity" column in the users table. You would just update it whenever a user access a page. Depending on what information you need it could replace the login_time column or it could be a new column.
You'll have to keep track of when the user made their last request in your database as a separate table or column. You can then formulate a query to select, e.g. all users that have made a request in the last 5 minutes.
PHP itself does not store - or care for - that kind of information. Unless you happen to have your own session management module which does store this kind of information, then you could use data from that.
I'm doing a system with Codeigniter , this is my first system with CI, and i'm also novice to PHP too.
I'm doing this for a hospital, in this i have the following problem
junior doctor first check the 1st visit patients and then if he can't handle them he refer them to the senior doctor
from registration room some patients are send to the eye checking room to check their eyes and then they go to the junior doctor
like wise i have temporary data to be kept on the system, references from one room to another and so on...
i need to get this details to the main GUI of the each person; for example in the Senior doctors UI there will be a tab named 1St time patients, in that the patients that was referred by the junior doctor will be shown to him! so i need to refer to the patients that was sent to senior doctor from the junior doctor and show them in the senior doctor's UI.
so my problem is how can i keep this temporary data to be referenced by the system? keeping them in the tables is not appropriate as i think because at the end of the day these data is not stored any where, only the patient table and few other tables will be keeping the data.
guys how can i achieve this kind of thing? any method of achieving this? technology that is easier to master that will allow me to keep temporary data?please give me some references or help by code to over come this problem.
regards,
Rangana
If the data is truly temporary, and has to be used by only one user at a time you need to stick it in session.
An entry level tuorial is here:
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_sessions.asp
However if data is accessed by different users, but is simply not needed on following days, or you are storing a significant amount of data, you should probably keep it in the DB.
The DB should be able to store lots of data, so on a smallish app there is not much reason to keep clearing it out, but you could also include a housekeeping function that clears data that is old or irrelevant.
However when working with medical data, it may be a good idea to hang on to everything.
everything will do with ajax (or something that always refresh the browser for number of time like meta refresh tag) that will notify senior / junior doctor if any patient referred to them.
you need to add a flag at database if the doctor already retrieve the notification so it will not notify the doctor twice.
for example your database table :
Name of patient | referral | referrer | flag_retrieved
you need to specify referral doctor at the session so it can retrieve the correct record and then notify the doctor
then your system should :
request to database if any doctor to
refer patient to them over time (you can use ajax or meta tag)
database will check if any record match and not yet retrieved
send request to browser, than notify the doctor if any referred patient.
if you need to clean up the database, you can use cron every end of day for deleting any record at the table.