This is more of a design question or a general CFML question than a Lucee
question. If this sort of question isn’t welcome here, please let me know
and I’ll keep them to myself in the future.
I’m redoing a friend’s site that allows parents to register kids for
different kinds of cooking classes (and pay for the class).
One type of class is held at Whole Foods and the business owner (my friend)
wants to allow parents wandering through the store to sign up for a class
that is going on at that time.
Naturally, you don’t want to let parents sign up when too much of the class
has elapsed, so I want to write a function that sets the session to
inactive after N minutes pass.
The business owner is not very savvy, so I try to simplify things as much
as possible, and pre-format everything that I can because she WILL find a
way to defeat validation.
My current idea is to throw together a table with a column in TIME format
(MySQL) and display the rows in a cfselect.
Is there a better, simpler, or more “best practice” way of doing this?
And, if the question is out of place, please disregard.
This is more of a design question or a general CFML question than a Lucee
question. If this sort of question isn’t welcome here, please let me know
and I’ll keep them to myself in the future.
I’m redoing a friend’s site that allows parents to register kids for
different kinds of cooking classes (and pay for the class).
One type of class is held at Whole Foods and the business owner (my
friend) wants to allow parents wandering through the store to sign up for a
class that is going on at that time.
Naturally, you don’t want to let parents sign up when too much of the
class has elapsed, so I want to write a function that sets the session to
inactive after N minutes pass.
The business owner is not very savvy, so I try to simplify things as much
as possible, and pre-format everything that I can because she WILL find
a way to defeat validation.
My current idea is to throw together a table with a column in TIME format
(MySQL) and display the rows in a cfselect.
Is there a better, simpler, or more “best practice” way of doing this?
And, if the question is out of place, please disregard.
On one hand, I’ll have to jump into jQuery (but i had to do that anyway,
for data tables). On the other hand, I really like the Step and
DisableTimeRanges functions.
Guess what I’m doing this weekend?
Thank you, Nando!On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 1:47:27 PM UTC-4, Nando Breiter wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Doug Roberson <douglass...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
Good day, all!
This is more of a design question or a general CFML question than a Lucee
question. If this sort of question isn’t welcome here, please let me know
and I’ll keep them to myself in the future.
I’m redoing a friend’s site that allows parents to register kids for
different kinds of cooking classes (and pay for the class).
One type of class is held at Whole Foods and the business owner (my
friend) wants to allow parents wandering through the store to sign up for a
class that is going on at that time.
Naturally, you don’t want to let parents sign up when too much of the
class has elapsed, so I want to write a function that sets the session to
inactive after N minutes pass.
The business owner is not very savvy, so I try to simplify things as much
as possible, and pre-format everything that I can because she WILL
find a way to defeat validation.
My current idea is to throw together a table with a column in TIME format
(MySQL) and display the rows in a cfselect.
Is there a better, simpler, or more “best practice” way of doing this?
And, if the question is out of place, please disregard.
I probably should have described the situation a bit differently.
Example - the business owner has a kid’s cooking class at Whole Foods on
3/27/2015 at 1:00 pm.
When the parents are wandering around Whole Foods and see the class, they
can sign up and pay on the website and leave the little crumb snatchers at
the class.
The business owner wants the class to stay open until a certain number of
students enroll (20, for instance) or until a few minutes before the class
ends.
On the sign-up page, the first of the code will call a function to see if
either of these conditions are met (max enrollees or class end). If either
condition is met, the class will be deactivated and will not be displayed
in the list of available classes.
There are other types of classes that run once a week for multiple weeks,
as well as summer camps that are daily for several weeks. Each kind will
have its own termination code, but they will be based on date, rather than
time.On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 6:10:52 PM UTC-4, Seth Johnson wrote:
Rather than timing out their session you might want to consider using
websockets to automatically update the user’s browsers as the sessions fill
or the signup period expires.
Seth
On Mar 27, 2015 12:29 PM, “Doug Roberson” <douglass...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
Good day, all!
This is more of a design question or a general CFML question than a Lucee
question. If this sort of question isn’t welcome here, please let me know
and I’ll keep them to myself in the future.
I’m redoing a friend’s site that allows parents to register kids for
different kinds of cooking classes (and pay for the class).
One type of class is held at Whole Foods and the business owner (my
friend) wants to allow parents wandering through the store to sign up for a
class that is going on at that time.
Naturally, you don’t want to let parents sign up when too much of the
class has elapsed, so I want to write a function that sets the session to
inactive after N minutes pass.
The business owner is not very savvy, so I try to simplify things as much
as possible, and pre-format everything that I can because she WILL
find a way to defeat validation.
My current idea is to throw together a table with a column in TIME format
(MySQL) and display the rows in a cfselect.
Is there a better, simpler, or more “best practice” way of doing this?
And, if the question is out of place, please disregard.
Rather than timing out their session you might want to consider using
websockets to automatically update the user’s browsers as the sessions fill
or the signup period expires.
SethOn Mar 27, 2015 12:29 PM, “Doug Roberson” <@Doug_Roberson> wrote:
Good day, all!
This is more of a design question or a general CFML question than a Lucee
question. If this sort of question isn’t welcome here, please let me know
and I’ll keep them to myself in the future.
I’m redoing a friend’s site that allows parents to register kids for
different kinds of cooking classes (and pay for the class).
One type of class is held at Whole Foods and the business owner (my
friend) wants to allow parents wandering through the store to sign up for a
class that is going on at that time.
Naturally, you don’t want to let parents sign up when too much of the
class has elapsed, so I want to write a function that sets the session to
inactive after N minutes pass.
The business owner is not very savvy, so I try to simplify things as much
as possible, and pre-format everything that I can because she WILL find
a way to defeat validation.
My current idea is to throw together a table with a column in TIME format
(MySQL) and display the rows in a cfselect.
Is there a better, simpler, or more “best practice” way of doing this?
And, if the question is out of place, please disregard.
I understand the use case. I was just suggesting use of a websocket for
real time update of the availability (or expiration) of classes instead of
expiring their session. Ping me off list if you would like to see an
example of what I am suggesting.
SethOn Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Doug Roberson <@Doug_Roberson> wrote:
Hi Seth
Thanks for taking the time to help me out!
I probably should have described the situation a bit differently.
Example - the business owner has a kid’s cooking class at Whole Foods on
3/27/2015 at 1:00 pm.
When the parents are wandering around Whole Foods and see the class, they
can sign up and pay on the website and leave the little crumb snatchers at
the class.
The business owner wants the class to stay open until a certain number of
students enroll (20, for instance) or until a few minutes before the class
ends.
On the sign-up page, the first of the code will call a function to see if
either of these conditions are met (max enrollees or class end). If either
condition is met, the class will be deactivated and will not be displayed
in the list of available classes.
There are other types of classes that run once a week for multiple weeks,
as well as summer camps that are daily for several weeks. Each kind will
have its own termination code, but they will be based on date, rather than
time.
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 6:10:52 PM UTC-4, Seth Johnson wrote:
Rather than timing out their session you might want to consider using
websockets to automatically update the user’s browsers as the sessions fill
or the signup period expires.
This is more of a design question or a general CFML question than a
Lucee question. If this sort of question isn’t welcome here, please let me
know and I’ll keep them to myself in the future.
I’m redoing a friend’s site that allows parents to register kids for
different kinds of cooking classes (and pay for the class).
One type of class is held at Whole Foods and the business owner (my
friend) wants to allow parents wandering through the store to sign up for a
class that is going on at that time.
Naturally, you don’t want to let parents sign up when too much of the
class has elapsed, so I want to write a function that sets the session to
inactive after N minutes pass.
The business owner is not very savvy, so I try to simplify things as
much as possible, and pre-format everything that I can because she WILL find a way to defeat validation.
My current idea is to throw together a table with a column in TIME
format (MySQL) and display the rows in a cfselect.
Is there a better, simpler, or more “best practice” way of doing this?
And, if the question is out of place, please disregard.
