Ok, that makes sense. I have all the payperiods specified in a table to
begin with, then just query selecting all >= start && <= end.
Thanks,
- Darren
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 11:29, Peter Beckman wrote:
> Put the dates for employees into one table.
>
> In another, put the payperiods.
>
> You could populate the payperiods table for the next 90 years if you wanted
> if it is always on a 2 week schedule.
>
> To look at past payperiods:
>
> select start, end from payperiods where start = '$querydate';
>
> Or just date, but you'll have to decide if the date in the payperiod table
> will be the start of the payperiod or end of the payperiod. IE:
>
> select date as start,date_add(date,interval 14 day) as end from
> payperiods where start = '$querydate';
>
> Then get the employees who put in time between those days, assuming $pp
> contains the row found:
>
> select * from timesheets where date>={$pp[start]} and date<{$pp[end]};
>
> Then you'd have all of the hours employees put in. Then just sort by
> employee name (add a group by) and/or sum their hours, etc.
>
> Pretty easy.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 12 Nov 2002, Darren Bentley wrote:
>
> > Our payperiods will always be 2 week increments.
> >
> > So if I specify a starting day in the database I need to have that
> > starting day always updated to the current starting day. (when we switch
> > to the new payperiod), so as Jerrad mentioned I could use a cron job.
> >
> > But how would I be able to look at past payperiods? Lets say I want to
> > view a payperiod from September, then this method won't work.
> >
> > I'm trying to automate this so employees don't have to specify dates.
> > They just click the date on the calendar and enter their hours worked
> > per task.
> >
> > Then the accountants can go to a "summaries" page where they can click
> > on the staff member and view any current and past pay periods.
> >
> > This sounded easy when I first started :)
> >
> > Thanks again for the help!
> >
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