We've just overhauled our calendaring up to support recurring events. We just took the interface from outlook, and stored all that data in the events table. Then we have a separate table to store the eventDates (and it's just 3 fields, eventDateId, eventID and eventDate). When I save the event, I update the eventDate table and insert every date that the event falls on. So if it recurrs every third tues until next year, I loop monthly until next year and store every event date. I believe this is far more efficient then calculating it on the fly. I got some functions off cflib to calculate things like third tues of the month, etc.
The only problem I foresee is when an event has no end date. But in that case, I'll probably pick some crazy date in the future and make that my stop date. -----Original Message----- From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Man, I'm just really banging my head over this one... I wrote an events manager. I ended up splitting up the database structure to handle once date-specific (16th-19th) events versus day-specific (every second Tuesday). Then just use some of the built-in functions and those from cflib to compile it all for display. I took a bit of an easy approach though, I don't have a calendar display but it shouldn't take too much effort to get to there from where I am now. -- Damien McKenna - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-804-1014 #include <stdjoke.h> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:225631 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
