Doing what I wanted to do took six hours and 120 lines of code, all in
all, but I learnt a good deal on the way. ;-)
At times, manual intervention can be a lifesaver.
You have already said that you have to 'ring fence' bank
holidays, and weekends, so someone has to check or enter the
bank
Maybe it's because I'm not fully awake yet that the problem seems less complex than it
is.
What is wrong with using a seperate table for each year?
Doug
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:43:17 +0200, anders thoresson wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on a web based article planning system for a news paper, based
You could you do MAX(issue_number)+1 where YEAR(date) = Year(NOW()) to get
next issue number for the current year, but if you had 2 people entering
issues at the same time, it wouldn't work so well. Just trying to give you
a starting point because it seems like you haven't really gotten an answer
MAX(issue_number)+1 where YEAR(date) = Year(NOW())
I continued to work while waiting for ideas, and have now manage to get a
script that work.
I'm getting the next issue number this way:
// Connect to database to get latest issue number from table un_issue
db_connect($dbuser,
