booking/reservation page with countdown

[waol]

Hi all,

 

I've got to create a page to book and/or reserve gears of a shared a lab (i.e routers, switches, servers).

 

There will have to be a countdown system so a single user can reserve his own list of gears for 1,2,3 hours or days and so on.

Ideally I would have it bound to email system so email can be generated (i.e. when gears are freed).

 

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I've alreayd have the gears in mysql DB and I'm sure there is something ready as it's seems ot be quite a common need.

 

Can you point me to any direction?

 

Thanks a ton,

Waol

 

[GingerRobot]

Well it's a similar kind of process to a hotel room-booking system, albeit on a smaller time-scale. I'd expect that you're more likely to find information on how to do this if you look into that problem instead -- it's more common.

[waol]

Hi,

 

thanks for your feedback.

 

I actually had a look but couldn't find anything that really applies to what I'd like to achieve.

I'm thinking of something a lot simple; with a table I can retrieve from the database with all the specs of the item items (got that part done already). Now I would like to add a cell where I can write notes (reason of the reservation) and a sort of drop down menu countdown. in hours/days.

[waol]

Anyonelse feeling like throuwing ideas?

 

 

I got the DB retrieving the equipment done. I'd like to add a drop down menu where I can select 1-2-3-6-12 hours or 1-2-3-7 days.

any idea?

 

 

thanks,

Salvo

 

 

[waol]

Just want to add that the reservation is also working but because I don't have a time selector I'll have to free the reserved item manually.

 

thanks