Re: [MRBS-general] book between x and z instead of duration

[Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...>]

Am Montag, den 10.12.2007, 15:54 +0100 schrieb Antoine Jacoutot:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > I was wondering if there was a way to define a period of time instead of
> > a duration when booking a room.
> > i.e. I'd like to be able to book a room between 2pm and 5pm instead of
> > booking it at 2pm for 3 hours.
> 
> Anyone?

Yes, that is possible - and it is not even difficult, if you know which
_intervals_ you want. If your MRBS for example runs on 1-hour intervals,
and you want to offer 1h, 2h, 3h, 4h, 5h and until-end-of-day as
intervals, go to the edit_entry.php file. Locate the place where the
"Duration" input elements are generated.

Remove the "input box" element, and the dropdown (<select
something></select>). Create a
<select name="copy-from-input-box">
<option value="1" selected>09:00h</option>
<option value="2">10:00h</option>
</selected>

Use PHP to copy the start time + 1 (+2...) as values 09:00, 10:00...

Create an <input type="hidden"
name="copy-from-former-minutes-hour-dropdown" value="value-for-hours" />

such that for the processing script, the input data looks exactly the
same.

This will break if the user changes the start time in this form; perhaps
make that non-editable....

Hope this gives you some ideas to play with.

BR
Anselm