/**
* Responds to requests to GET /schedules/getCalendar/{id} from the calendar view. This creates the json
* object with the array of calendar activities to be rendered in the FullCalendar jquery plugin calendar.
*/
public function getCalendar($id = null)
{
$calendarArray = [];
$schedule = \App\Schedule::with('activities')->find($id);
// The toughest part of this was creating the input data in the json format that FullCalendar required. I didn't exactly design
// the data to plug right in.
// First grab each activity in the schedule
foreach ($schedule->activities as $activity) {
$activity_dow = \App\Activities_Dow::where('activity_id', '=', $activity->id)->get();
// Then find each day of the week that the activity is on. Add the DOW number - 1 to the start date (Monday is DOW 2, but start date is always
// Sunday so need to subtract 1)
foreach ($activity_dow as $dow) {
$start = $schedule->start_dt;
$inputDate = $start . " + " . ($dow->day_of_week - 1) . " days";
// format the time of the activity to 4 digits i.e. in case someone entered 800 instead of 0800.
$activityTime = sprintf("%04d", $activity->default_time);
// Split string into an array of 2 digit elements
$chunks = str_split($activityTime, 2);
// Convert array to string with : between the elements. Makes 0800 into 08:00 which is the format I need.
$activityTime = implode(':', $chunks);
// Take the input date that I calculated earlier and make it a date in the right format
$activityDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($inputDate));
// Add on the time and reformat
$activityStartDate = date('Y-m-d H:i', strtotime($activityDate . " " . $activityTime));
// Calculate the time of the activity end by adding the duration in minutes. Format that too.
$activityEnd = date('Y-m-d H:i', strtotime($activityStartDate . " + " . $activity->duration_minutes . " minutes"));
// Phew! Now build my array element.
$calendarArray[] = array("title" => $activity->name, "start" => $activityStartDate, "end" => $activityEnd);
}
}
// convert the array to json
return response()->json($calendarArray);
}
/**
* Responds to requests to POST /activities/edit
*/
public function postEdit(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, ['name' => 'required|min:2', 'duration_minutes' => 'required|min:1', 'group' => 'required', 'days' => 'required', 'default_time' => 'required|digits:4']);
$activity = \App\Activity::find($request->id);
$activity->name = $request->name;
$activity->description = $request->description;
$activity->group_id = $request->group;
$activity->duration_minutes = $request->duration_minutes;
$activity->default_time = $request->default_time;
if ($request->days) {
$days = $request->days;
} else {
$days = [];
}
$activity_days = '';
foreach ($days as $day) {
$activity_days = $activity_days . ' ' . $this->days_for_checkbox[$day];
}
$activity->days = $activity_days;
$activity->save();
// Get rid of all of the current activity->day_of_week rows in Activities_dow
$old_activity_dow = [];
$old_activity_dow = \App\Activities_Dow::where('activity_id', '=', $activity->id)->get();
foreach ($old_activity_dow as $odow) {
$odow->delete();
}
// Add back the new ones
foreach ($days as $day) {
$activity_dow = new \App\Activities_Dow();
$activity_dow->day_of_week = $day;
$activity->activities_dow()->save($activity_dow);
}
\Session::flash('flash_message', 'Your activity was updated.');
return redirect('/activities/show');
}
