cafe system ideas please!

[beely]

hey guys, i should have to do my final year project, is all about "cafe management system", i don't have any ideas about it, althought i was known about the system was made by using winsock api concept, perhaps experts may have some suggestion and comments according to the system. thanks.

[Danial]

Originally posted by beely
hey guys, i should have to do my final year project, is all about "cafe management system", i don't have any ideas about it, althought i was known about the system was made by using winsock api concept, perhaps experts may have some suggestion and comments according to the system. thanks.

I would suggest you use a server side technology such as ASP/PHP and make it browser based. Doing it using winsock will be messy and in efficient. Where as if you use ASP all you will need is to run IIS.

[beely]

hmm, strange. the system related to the web based ? the system was controlling the PCs, and calcuating the value according to how long the customer use the PC.:)

[Danial]

Originally posted by beely
hmm, strange. the system related to the web based ? the system was controlling the PCs, and calcuating the value according to how long the customer use the PC.:)

Sorry, i dont understand your response. Whats so strange about it? Yes it will be web based (Intranet Application).

[beely]

well, it's kinda like a PC control other PC by the concept of networking programming. trying to log off, shutdown, or even detect the PC whether it was powered up on the selected PC.
hope you would understand about the problem. :)

[Danial]

Originally posted by beely
well, it's kinda like a PC control other PC by the concept of networking programming. trying to log off, shutdown, or even detect the PC whether it was powered up on the selected PC.
hope you would understand about the problem. :)

Hmm,that dont like a normal cafe system i would know of. Anyhow in that case you will need to use winsock, and will have to run two exe(server and client). Server will command and client will accept the command and execute it. Look up on planetsourcecode.com you should find many example.

Danial

[beely]

thanks Danial , i get your a bit of ideas about the system. ;)

just wondering what version should i used for the visual basic application to implement the system. vb or vb.net ? any comment anyway ?

[Danial]

Originally posted by beely
thanks Danial , i get your a bit of ideas about the system. ;)

just wondering what version should i used for the visual basic application to implement the system. vb or vb.net ? any comment anyway ?

If you are good with vb.net then i would advise you to go for vb.net.

[beely]

Daniel,

about the cafe management system, did you think that the system should need multithreading part ?

[Danial]

Originally posted by beely
Daniel,

about the cafe management system, did you think that the system should need multithreading part ?

No i dont see any need of using Multitreading in your project.

Have you decided up on how you will implement it? I can tell you instead of using Winsock, you can use Windows Managment Interface(WMI) to achieve most of the things, if your network is based on windows 2000, XP etc.

Let me know if you need any ideas, but you will have to tell me more in detail of what kind of functionality you are trying to implement.

Hope this helps.

Danial

[beely]

Danial,

oh boy! it would be glad if i could get your guidance and comments from you about WMI. let me guess, WMI will be working among PCs by the API function?

well danial, it might be unresponding if those message code were send from one of the clients to the server, while the server is still processing the accounting transaction into database, so i decide to use multithread to solve the problem for the server application.

the functionality of the server application and the client application are quite simple. first of all, server application should tell the client application to logon the PC if customers request to use a PC. if let say, customers are going for prepaid package, which mean, pay first before using it. so the server application should tell the client application to logon the PC and inform the time period of using the PC. when the system uptime (from windows application or maybe registry?) exceed at the time according to payment that have been made by customer, the PC will be automatically logoff, restart the PC and etc.

hope those details to figure out ur new ideas. :) thanks again.