AUB students

ramiraz

Hey guys! I finished working on a course scheduling web applications that allows AUB students to make their schedules online. I need some geeky students to help me test it and report bugs. Check it out on: http://ramirizk.com/siscode. Thanks

Bij

we should have tested earlier than one day before registration !
will test it and five you feedback

Bij

First things first, ability to specify a section for at least some of the courses:
"4681 possible schedules" is not really helpful
Can you add an extra field in case someone needs to overload or register a lab (more then 5 courses)

Padre

well ... nothing beats the paper and the pen honestly .....
but keep the good work :) (and ffs ... sanitize you queries !!!)

you should add a "Auto registration" feature to it too :P
We did write a software that does that and monitors for seats and registers courses as soon as they are available, but never (and never planning on) releasing it :)

ramiraz

Padre I did the auto-registration too but i keep it to myself (or maybe launch a pro-version). Anyway what do you recommend for query sanitization? I heard parameterized queries are better than "mysql_real_escape_string" but i don't really know how to do it...

leblinux

Good for you Rami :)) we'll discuss it tomorrow in IT:)

ramiraz

Good for you Rami :)) we'll discuss it tomorrow in IT:)

Saad??

Padre

and say hi to Ziad ;)

i can't really help you there, i usually write my own function :P

ramiraz

wait! what?? is this an IT meeting here? padre do i know know you?

Padre

no you dont. neither does anyone ... even ziad ;)

jsaade

ramiraz wrotePadre I did the auto-registration too but i keep it to myself (or maybe launch a pro-version). Anyway what do you recommend for query sanitization? I heard parameterized queries are better than "mysql_real_escape_string" but i don't really know how to do it...

Why is it better? they both prevent SQL injection. To parametrize you would need to switch from mysql to a PDO object where you have a prepare:
pdo->prepare(...
pdo->execute

or keep using mysql, and use mysql_real_escape_string, I did not find difference between both and i think it is a matter of choice.

ramiraz

Padre wroteno you dont. neither does anyone ... even ziad ;)

Ok you're scaring me now (your avatar doesn't really help). ZeRaw thanks!

dp0001

trip down memory lane... AUB in 1999... - had to wake up at 4 am on registration day, eat a healthy breakfast(caus u were going to need it) and there was a linup already at 6, 6-30 am. registration opened at 8:30. by then it was an all out war, and if that wasnt enough, if there was a conflict and you had to go somewere to see someone ...game over...all the sections would fill up except may for sunday morning lol - good times :)