Re: php help needed, is there a bright spark out there!

Hello hamish, [msg converted from HTML to simple-text format] I have been asked to do a project that seems to be baffling me. It's not really the php which is the hard part, but the mathematical problem behind the project that is causing me to have a headache! ... =This reminds me of the test-problems we were given at Uni - in fact one of my contracts (was self-supporting not a scholarship student) was to support a post-grad student doing exactly this sort of thing - the routing of milk tankers around farm pick ups and delivering to a network of factories. =Sadly I have difficulty remembering that far back... What is my name again? =The issues of least-path, network analysis or even linear programming are discussed (big time) in Operations Research text books. Factory layout is a fairly 'standard' problem. A visit to a decent Uni/mgmt/technical library should give you a bunch of models and formulae to play with! =Regards, =dn