wannabe

Sunday, October 16, 2005

I feel like I've made some progress today even though I didn't even start doing anything until recently. The fact is that I am still waiting for some important details and while I can make progress without those details everything is subject to change until these are confirmed.

However, as I said, I made progress. Most of it is in making the form look pretty. I've also finally gotten the content to have a scrollbar when it's too big for the box - while this is quite simple css it only works when the position is either fixed or relative (can't remember which) and the div I was trying to get to scroll was the wrong type. A nested div did the trick.

I've written myself a very small to-do list of things I want to do next. The first is to get my select boxes working - I switched from check boxes to select boxes mainly for display purposes, but none of my books had proper instructions in using select boxes and I wasn't online at the time. I now have written notes on how to get that bit working.

The other thing I have to do should be fairly simple. Write a page that adds all the data to the database and prints a paypal button saying "buy now" which will be dynamic depending on the cost of things.

After that there is a little tweaking to do. There are three different pricing structures: a weekend pricing structure and two daytime structures - one for students and one for non-students. I've already got much of the code in place to cope with these but I haven't done it officially yet.

The next thing after that is to, once the times that bookings can be made for are officially confirmed, make sure that all the times are accurate. I've got a feeling weekdays may get a little complicated because timeslots are three hours long. The original plan was to allow people to book a start time of any time, but with the slots being three hours long this now makes it very difficult. On a weekend they have to go with specific start times and I'm hoping this will still be the case.

And then the final bit on that section is to change from sessions to cookies - so that the stored information can be deleted when the browser is closed. At the moment I think that information is being stored because each time I go to the page it starts at December rather than October - I want the program to always start on the appropriate month.

Then I have to wait for details on things people can hire and write a page to deal with this.

And finally.. I have to write something so that the people running the business can see/edit/delete all bookings. Should be relatively simple? No?

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