Re: Setting up CakePHP for Reporting

2008-09-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you want to know wether I would use CakePHP if I was asked to develop a web-application to do resource scheduling... the answer is yes. But then I have been developing with Cake (on and off) for the past 2,5-3 years. I may be a little biased :) How I would design the Models (and database) for

Re: Setting up CakePHP for Reporting

2008-09-23 Thread Wayne Fay
As suggested by Martin, your current way of doing things in Excel may not be ideal. Rather than looking for a way to rebuild the current tool with CakePHP, perhaps you should open your mind a bit, close the Excel sheet, and think about a better way to build a similar tool that provides the same fu

Re: Setting up CakePHP for Reporting

2008-09-23 Thread torbjorn
point well taken, I should not have past in all the vb code. But it could be of use for someone, as to research there is no open source out there that will do what my current spreadsheet is doing. So, my questions was directed towards CakePHP flexibility of being used for resoruce scheduling. And

Re: Setting up CakePHP for Reporting

2008-09-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wayne has a point. You could do a bit more searching and come to possibly a few more concise questions. Me and a couple of other people has a thread going about this kind of thing just a few days ago. http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/4d3c6aac7cc6f831/b30a00a45111977d

Re: Setting up CakePHP for Reporting

2008-09-22 Thread Wayne Fay
I think you're going to get a much better response with a 5-10 line pseudo code example than the nearly 200 line VB code you've included below. Personally, I wouldn't even consider looking at something like that unless someone is paying me cold hard cash. As for the "calculate the week" issue, di

Setting up CakePHP for Reporting

2008-09-22 Thread torbjorn
Hi, I thought I seek feedback from this group on what would be the best direction creating reporting in CakePHP. My project that I am working on, is to take resource scheduling excel spreadsheet and move it over to a database, the reason to this is that the spreadsheet has grown to big, and exce