Shock and Awe

Hey hey, now those are some cool ideas. Generate graphs and save them to a document. Also, I found out you can generate spreadsheets from CF, which is awesome. I forgot all about CFWindow, that can do some pretty neat looking stuff if I remember right. Good thoughts guys, keep em coming!

Hmm office people generally do love PDF's (for some reason I'll never understand, whoever thought of storing text as a picture should be shot).

Trying to think what I would want to put in a PDF. Perhaps a scheduling confirmation letter?

Dan,
Good thought. I am taking every step to ensure that my code is minimal, easy to follow, and centralized when possible. I am taking advantage of components and functions alot, lots of good error handling, so structurally the app is pretty good. I don't know if I can do a straight up volume compare, because I will be adding some new features as well (ability to cancel reservations, manage your account, see what you've signed up for in the past, etc). So overall my app will probably be a little larger, but much more feature rich.

Just for laughs, I'll tell ya a little about the system I'm replacing. He (my boss) needed something cheaply and quickly, and he knew some PHP programmers from Mexico. Well one of the dudes who wrote it was a super novice, and made a lot of mistakes. I don't even know PHP that well, but after working on the app for a few days I could tell it was badly messed up. Lots of the variables and functions are in Spanish, there are no centralized functions or reusable code, no standard naming conventions, not even a stylesheet or standard design for each page. No error handling, no data sanitation before database entry or query, passing huge amounts of data through URL pages, no management features, etc. It's just a wreck. I don't know how it even works. So really anything should blow this other app out of the water, just need to make it impressive enough to make the switch.