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February 11th, 2008, 07:24 PM

rickaclark

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Tracking Time

I am trying to develop a script that I can use to track my time by pushing a button for my start time and another button for my stop time, then subtracting the difference to save to a database.

I came up with the following script, but when I push the End Time button ,the start time is erased. Does anyone have any better ideas? Any help would be appreciated.

<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>
<FORM action="#getfilefrompath(cgi.script_name)#" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="operation" value="Start Time">
</form>
</td>
<td>

<FORM action="#getfilefrompath(cgi.script_name)#" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="operation" value="End Time">
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<cfif isdefined("operation")>
<cfif #form.operation# IS "Start Time">
<cfset StartTime = "#timeFormat(now(), "HH:mm:ss")#">
#StartTime#
</cfif></cfif>
</td>
<td><cfif isdefined("operation")>
<cfif #form.operation# IS "End Time">
<cfset EndTime = "#timeFormat(now(), "HH:mm:ss")#">
#EndTime#
</cfif></cfif></td>
</tr>
</table>

February 11th, 2008, 09:40 PM

kiteless

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Code:

<cfoutput>
<cfif not StructKeyExists(form, 'operation')>
	<form action="#GetFileFromPath(cgi.script_name)#" method="post">
		<input type="submit" name="operation" value="Start Time">
	</form>
<cfelse>
	<cfif form.operation eq "Start Time">
		<cfset startTime = Now() />
		Start Time: #TimeFormat(startTime, "HH:mm:ss")#
		<form action="#GetFileFromPath(cgi.script_name)#" method="post">
			<input type="hidden" name="startTime" value="#startTime#" />
			<input type="submit" name="operation" value="End Time">
		</form>
	<cfelseif form.operation eq "End Time">
		<cfset startTime = form.startTime />
		<cfset endTime = Now() />
		Start Time: #TimeFormat(startTime, "HH:mm:ss")#<br />
		End Time: #TimeFormat(endTime, "HH:mm:ss")#
	</cfif>	
</cfif>	
</cfoutput>

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