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34. Creating the appointment record
Episodes
01. Introduction and setting up
02. Database setup
03. Displaying employees and services
04. Core functionality
09. How we build up availability
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10. Working with date periods
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11. Iterating over requested days in a period
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12. Adding schedule availability
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13. Removing schedule exclusions
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14. Excluding time already passed today
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15. Generating slots
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16. Using a custom date collection
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17. Building the service availability generator
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18. Adding employees into slots
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19. Removing empty slots
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20. Removing slots with booked appointments
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05. Building the checkout
21. Scaffolding the checkout design
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22. Making the employee optional
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23. Loading availability
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24. Building Alpine plugins
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25. Showing the calendar
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26. Locking unavailable dates
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27. Showing the slot count on the calendar
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28. Updating the selected date
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29. Showing time slots
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30. Setting a time slot
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31. Finding an available employee
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06. Booking appointments
07. Appointment confirmation
Transcript
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All that's left to do now is actually create the appointment. So let's go ahead and do that and just defer this
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to another method. And I want this returned so we can eventually redirect. So I'll do that now. Let's call a createAppointment method.
00:12
And let's go down and create this out here. So createAppointment. So we're going to start out by creating a temporary appointment variable.
00:22
We're not going to create this, first of all. Instead, we're going to go and grab our appointment model and make this. So then down here, we can attach
00:30
the service and the employee. And we're going to make this by taking the form and only the name and the email address. And then what we're going to do is just pull this down
00:45
so it's a little bit easier to see. We're going to append on the start sag and ends at dates separately. Because remember, we're storing the date and the time slot,
00:56
but we don't necessarily know when this appointment ends. We'll do that based on the service duration. So we've got a startsAtDate. We have got an endsAtDate.
01:06
And let's figure this out. So the startsAtDate, let's assign it here because we're going to need to use that to work out the endsAtDate.
01:14
And we'll use Carbon just to manually build this up. Now, we've already validated these, so we know that they're in the correct format. So let's grab the form date.
01:23
So that's the base of our start time of our appointment. And then with Carbon, let's go ahead and use set time from time string. We know that our form time is a string.
01:36
And there we go. So that's going to set up the start date and the time and assign it to startsAt. Now, for the endsAt, this is pretty straightforward.
01:44
We're going to take the startsAtDate. Really importantly, we're going to copy it because we don't want to modify the original date by adding any minutes onto it.
01:53
And then we're just going to add on some minutes. And you guessed it. The minutes are going to be the service duration. Perfect.
02:01
Let's just die dump this just to make sure everything is looking good. And then we will attach the employee and the service to this as we create it.
02:10
OK, let's choose 11 o'clock here. Go ahead and make a booking. And let's see what we get. Make booking.
02:16
Great. So under Attributes, we have got my name and email address. Pretty obvious. Starts at 11, ends at 12.
02:24
Great. Both on the same day, the day that we've chosen. So that's working nicely. Now we just need to attach the relationship.
02:31
So I'm just going to hop over to our appointment model just to make sure these are on there, service and employee are. So let's take the appointment.
02:39
Let's access the employee relationship. And let's go ahead and associate the employee that we have within this component. So associate that employee.
02:49
And we'll do exactly the same thing for the service as well and associate that service. Again, let's just go ahead and die dump on this just to make sure that everything looks good.
02:59
OK, let's go and enter my details. Hit Make Booking. And yeah, sure enough, we've got one and one in there. And we've got them relationships set up.
03:11
So now all that's left to do is save this out. So we can just use Appointment Save because it's not persisted yet. And then we're going to go ahead and return the appointment.
03:20
And that will be returned back to us up here so we can go ahead and redirect. For now, though, let's just die dump on this so we know we've got it.
03:29
OK, let's head over and try another one. So I'm actually going to choose a different service just to make sure that this is all good. So let's choose 12 o'clock.
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Remember, these dates have now shifted because we've got an hour and a half appointment type. Let's enter this. And there we go.
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So now if we head over to the database, yeah, sure enough, we're actually creating the appointment now with all the details. And also, yeah, that slot has now disappeared.
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Overview
Building an availability calendar and booking system is a notoriously difficult problem to solve. That’s exactly what we’re going to cover in this course.
Step by step, we’ll build an appointment slot generator that calculates availability based on employee schedules, employee’s booked time off, the length of service chosen, existing appointments, and cancelled appointments.
For maximum flexibility, we’ll also allow multi-employee availability checks, so we’ll be able to see every employee who can perform a service (and their available slots).
To finish up, we’ll create an entire booking flow with Livewire, including a beautiful booking calendar that shows detailed availability across multiple dates, the ability to choose a time slot — and finally the ability to book an appointment.
Phew. We’ve got a lot to learn — let’s build a booking system with Livewire!
Alex Garrett-Smith
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