Re: bookings

2004-03-02 Thread Gerald Taylor
user inputs booking dates is turn around and say something like insert bookings (bookstart,bookend,rate) VALUES ($start,$stop,OPTIONAL_RATE($start,$stop)) well you'd need to get the syntax right but your application code would be much simpler and the crunching would be done by the DBMS inste

Re: bookings

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Sasha Pachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * if your application is not going to be deployed for a year or so or if you > have enough confidence in MySQL alpha, use stored procedures in the bleeding > edge MySQL 5.0 How would I benifit from a stored procedure? Kind

Re: bookings

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Mark Maggelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know how you're charging weekly rates, but you could just > check if daysbooked>=7 and knock a percentage off total. I was thinking of having each day of a period charged as the weekly period rate divided by 7. But t

Re: bookings

2004-03-02 Thread Gerald Taylor
ate also I have the rates as seasonRateWeekly and seasonRateNightly What I need to do, is INSERT INTO bookings the bookingFromDate and bookingToDate, no problem there, but I need to know what rate to charge them. and if the booking dates overlap seasons, the appropriate rate needs to be applied. A

Re: bookings

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Maggelet
d daily rate. 3) to get the total rate do a query like: select sum(seasons.rate) as total,sum(1) as daysbooked from bookings,seasons where bookings.id=$id and seasons.dayofyear BETWEEN DATE_FORMAT(bookingFromDate,"%j") AND DATE_FORMAT(bookingToDate,"%j") I don't know how y

Re: bookings

2004-03-02 Thread Sasha Pachev
ate also I have the rates as seasonRateWeekly and seasonRateNightly What I need to do, is INSERT INTO bookings the bookingFromDate and bookingToDate, no problem there, but I need to know what rate to charge them. and if the booking dates overlap seasons, the appropriate rate needs to be applied. K

bookings

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Waterson
e rates as seasonRateWeekly and seasonRateNightly What I need to do, is INSERT INTO bookings the bookingFromDate and bookingToDate, no problem there, but I need to know what rate to charge them. and if the booking dates overlap seasons, the appropriate rate needs to be applied. All replies greatfull

Re: Querying for continuous bookings

2003-09-22 Thread Mojtaba Faridzad
have this case, you can work more on this query to have the other records and do the search on the final query. - Original Message - From: "Ville Mattila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Querying for conti

Querying for continuous bookings

2003-09-22 Thread Ville Mattila
Hi there, My problem at this time is following: I have a table of position bookings, having information of a position code, beginning time of the booking and end time: Pos | Begings | Ends APP | 2003-09-30 11:00:00 | 2003-09-30 12:15