as for dates, I like to break them into to 3 parts when using a form to enter them..
form.Date_Day, form.Date_Month, and form.Date_Year
then piece them back together in a cfset to get the date. while catching bad dates like feb 30 or something. The CreateODBCDate () will throw an error if it is a bad date
<cftry>
<cfset thedate = form.date_month & "/" & form.Date_Day & "/" & form.date_Year>
<cfset TheDate = CreateODBCDate(thedate)>
<cfcatch>
INVALID DATE
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
make sense?
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Kessler
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:53 AM
Subject: tip of the day
I'm looking for either advice or tutorials on creating a "tip of the
day" database. Here are the ways that I thought up. I am working in
Oracle.
1 - Have just two fields, ID#s and Tips. Set up some Oracle process
that each day at 12 A.M., local server time chooses another TIP
either the next one in the row, or a random one. I guess if it were
a random one, it'd have to have another field for "chosen". If it
were the next one in the row, it'd have to loop after it ran out of
rows.
My reluctance is that I am new to DBs, especially Oracle and when
I've tried to set up other processes, it's hasn't worked smoothly
(couldn't get a trigger to work) and I end up spending days trying to
make it work.
This option seems the cleanest to me.
2 - Have three fields: ID#s, Tips, dateAdded. Get the date for the
oldest tip. Find out how many days since that tip (say it's 419).
Do a MOD on number_of_days/number_of_rows to find the position of the
next tip (ie 419 MOD 82 = 9, so tip 9). This seems fine in theory
to me, but I've not implemented it to see what trouble it'll give me.
Nonetheless, I think it's a cool idea :-).
3 - Also have the datePresented field and have the display date
entered by a form. I don't like this because it invites error and
more management of information.
So any help would be appreciated, either general thoughts on this or
my ideas or some tutorials.
thanks.
--
Daniel Kessler
Department of Public and Community Health
University of Maryland
Suite 2387 Valley Drive
College Park, MD 20742-2611
301-405-2545 Phone
www.phi.umd.edu
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