Distress Call
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:12 pm
Greetings! I am making a distress call at 3AM in the morning.
I have a dilemma and it goes like this: I am making a login-logout timer to be implemented on a server terminal for small number of PC terminals. There will be a LOGIN button to (1) post their username, (2) post the terminal they will use, and their starting time and will also trigger the timer. Then there will be a LOGOUT button to (1) stop the timer, (2) compute the elapsed time. AND, the logout button should make the terminal available again for the next user.
First, I have set up the structure of the timer. But I need the real time data to be posted as the starting time and the ending time. (Okay, so I probably wouldn't need that timer since real time is really ticking forward in time).
Second, on the LOGOUT button... I am having trouble figuring out how to clear the data (to make the terminal available again for other patrons) without deleting the previous data stored in the database.
Pardon me for such newbish inquiries. You may or may not put in the codes themselves (although that would be greatly appreciated as I hold a degree in Reverse Engineering
). I am also nearing a deadline so codes would be better alongside tutorials. Thanks to future respondents to this call for aid. 
I have a dilemma and it goes like this: I am making a login-logout timer to be implemented on a server terminal for small number of PC terminals. There will be a LOGIN button to (1) post their username, (2) post the terminal they will use, and their starting time and will also trigger the timer. Then there will be a LOGOUT button to (1) stop the timer, (2) compute the elapsed time. AND, the logout button should make the terminal available again for the next user.
First, I have set up the structure of the timer. But I need the real time data to be posted as the starting time and the ending time. (Okay, so I probably wouldn't need that timer since real time is really ticking forward in time).
Second, on the LOGOUT button... I am having trouble figuring out how to clear the data (to make the terminal available again for other patrons) without deleting the previous data stored in the database.
Pardon me for such newbish inquiries. You may or may not put in the codes themselves (although that would be greatly appreciated as I hold a degree in Reverse Engineering