[Web4lib] Question for php/asp programmers

[Ian Chan]

Both ASP and PHP offer time/hour functions.  If you program it into the form
script, you would check against Hour(time). "If Hour(time) > 8 Then Sally",
etc.  Submit Sally's name with email data to database.  In PHP the function
is date("G");

Our reference questions submitted via email form are picked up by the
librarians staffing the Reference Desk.  We also participate in statewide
chat service which rotates among the libraries.  When its our turn we have a
schedule from which reference librarians will select four-hour blocks.

Regards,

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Ian Chan
Web Services Librarian
http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/
University of Alaska Anchorage 
907.786.1835





On Monday 19 September 2005 17:45, Ruth Harrison wrote:
> Our library has an "Ask a Librarian" form. Information is submitted to 
> a an ASP form. This causes an email to be sent to an account. Then a 
> PHP script retrieves the result and dumps it in a database where the 
> librarians have to manually assign a question to themselves. Is it 
> possible to change this so that the librarian is automatically 
> assigned a question based on the time of day? For example any 
> questions that are submitted between noon and
> 2 pm are automatically assigned to "Ruth".
>
> How are other libraries assigning these questions to staff when they 
> come in? Thank you.
>
>
> Ruth Harrison
> Texas State Law Library
> P O Box 12367
> Austin TX 78711-2367
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> 512.463.1728 Fax
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