How to display daily hours on webpage

[Hess, M. Ryan]

Hi Mark,

I'm curious about your method. From the hours admin perspective, are they entering the data into a spreadsheet and uploading to your database? Would you consider this to be easy enough for non-technical staff to perform, or does your team have to do this work for them?

Thanks,
M Ryan Hess
Web Services Coordinator
DePaul University
JTR 120, DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, 2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614
office: 773-325-7829 | cell:  650-224-7279 |  fax: 773-325-2297  | mhess8 at depaul.edu<https://outlook.depaul.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>

From: Vega <vegamf at UCI.EDU<mailto:vegamf at UCI.EDU>>
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] How to display daily hours on webpage

We store all of our calendar data in a SQL database and read it onto our web pages using PHP.  Once a year we do a data load of the coming year's calendar based on data pulled from a generic perpetual calendar combined with the campus Academic Calendar, and administrators for our various Library servicepoints can update hours in real time using an in-house web application.  A RESTful API allows other campus departments (and even students) to plug Library hours onto their own web pages, and a widget displays the hours dynamically on the campus portal.

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Mark Vega
Programmer/Analyst
UCI Libraries - Web Services
The University of California, Irvine
P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA 92623-9557
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On 3/22/2013 1:14 PM, Heidi Steiner wrote:
Lisa,

I adapted some simple JavaScript written by Matthew Reidsma at GVSU. He made the code and documentation available on github: https://github.com/mreidsma/Today-s-Hours

You need to know at least a smidge about JS to customize it and it does require manual updates to changes the hours display. Our hours do not change frequently so it works well enough for what we wanted (less clutter!).

Best,
Heidi
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Heidi M. Steiner
Head of Digital and Distance Education Services
Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University
158 Harmon Dr. Northfield, Vermont
802.485.2171<tel:802.485.2171>



On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Lisa M. Zarrella <lmzarrella at stgregorys.edu<mailto:lmzarrella at stgregorys.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

How does one code to get the daily hours to show up on a webpage.
Example: http://www.library.okstate.edu/

Thanks,

Lisa

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