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Authentication

How do I login?
Why can't I delete/alter an appointment?
Making/Altering Meetings What happens if multiple people schedule the same meeting?
About The Scheduling System How does the system work?

How do I login?

Each user must supply an idnumber and password to successfully login. If a user has never used the scheduling system before, then he or she must register before logging in. Top

Why can't I delete/alter a meeting?

In order to delete or alter a appointment, you must login as the person that made the appointment. Next click on the word "Reserved" that fills the cell of the appointment to be changed. Top

What happens if multiple people schedule the same meeting?

The short answer is: The first person to click on the Submit button wins.
Behind the scenes, the system is using a proper mult-user, multi-threaded relational database than can handle many thousands of simultaneous users. Top

How does the system work and who wrote it?

The Meeting Room Booking System is open source software that is distributed under the Gnu Public License(GPL). This means that software is free to use, distribute, and modify.

This system is modified version of the Meeting Room Booking System, which is written mostly in PHP. PHP is an open source programming language that can be embedded in web pages similar in concept to Microsoft active server pages. PHP is especially good at accessing databases.

The database used for the system is MySQL. MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server that is also GPL.

The system will run on multiple platforms. This is running on a PC architeture using the Linux operating system. Linux, is a free, open source, unix-like operating system.

The web server being used is yet another piece of free, open source software. The Apache web server is the world's most popular web server.

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