Re: Scheduler, Staff Directory, Work tracker

Um yes, well the issue is not learning it is time. I am on an assignment here for only 4 more months and I have another project to do. There is no point in starting from scratch. I will check the web sites you suggested. Paul Justin French wrote: > on 12/08/02 5:59 PM, Paul Dionne (PDionne@Speakeasy.net) wrote: > >> Good morning everyone! >> >> Our organization is in need of a Scheduling program for meeting rooms. >> The program doesn't need to be very complicated...five or six rooms, >> outputs a >> list of rooms available for the time the user enters. We would put it on >> our intranet. > > see below > >> We could also use a basic staff directory program: Outputs Name, >> Extension, >> email, position... maybe even a picture. We would put it on our web >> site. > > This is just a modification of a contact database. Nearly every PHP & > MySQL beginners tutorial starts with a simple contact database which you > can modify to suit. > > I'd really advise actually learning a bit of this stuff, rather than > grabbing something pre-built. End of the day, nothing will have *exactly* > the features you need (now, or the future), and learning a little about > the two languages will help you build the meeting room program, which no > harder to build than the contact database. > > I think phpbuilder.net, sitepoint.com, phpbeginner.com and a few others > are bound to have something you should use as a starting point. > > >> Lastly, we could use something to keep track of our workflow program >> otherwise referred to as a strategic plan. > > Workflow IS a more complex application. > > > Have a look around at places like sourceforge.net for simular > applications. Again, having a little bit of knowledge from your work with > contact database and meeting room schedules will help you to modify these > apps to suit.