Someone has ideas of how this rental application could be builded

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Is a very simple scenario:

I need to build a rent a car application.

I fill out a booking form where I select the car I have rented and on which date it will be rented:
Start and end date

Ok, if later fill a new form and select the same dates the application should not let me choose that car because it will not be available.

Or if i select a date, the application must show what are the cars that will be available on that date.

Any idea how to get it?

Thanks!

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So, naturally, you require 2 things:
1. a collection (array) of dates for which the car is unavailable,
2. a way to block those dates on the calendar (datepicker).

For the 1st point, you could maintain an array of dates, by creating the array and storing it in a string form in the Car record itself and updating/using it whenever required.

For the 2nd point, the $.datepicker method allows a few options to block selected dates. You can use your earlier-created array of dates with one of the datepicker methods.

I am myself not sure about which methods and what exact code, yet, but i know that this approach can work out for you.

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Kicking this one all the way up. Anyone know how to achieve the future availability?

 

Thanks.

4

Hi, did you fix this? I'm really interested in this feature.

 

Thanks!

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Thank you very much for your example Luis!

The problem is that i don't know how to control the future availability. 

If I have a rented car from 1 to 10 August and someone wants to rent it for August 5 on the rental form the list of available cars should not appear.

But if on the date field I put on August 15, it should appear as available

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Hi Hoipoi Code:

See this link maybe this can be usefull for you.

https://congresochihuahuamx.knack.com/sai#forms/

Luis G.