On the TutsPlus.com site they've posted the latest tutorial of their "Building Your Startup" series. In this latest article author Jeff Reifman focuses on adding routes and handling for the "schedule with me" functionality.

For a long time since I began this project, I've wanted Meeting Planner and Simple Planner to have a publicly accessible page you can share with people to schedule a meeting with you. In other words, "Sure, let's meet, just visit my schedule with me page at Meeting Planner, I'm Bernie Sanders (no space)."

In today's tutorial, I'll show you I've done it using Yii's routing and some of the related issues that came up.

He starts with a screencast of the feature (the end result) showing how the UI functions and what features it includes. He then takes a step back and starts on the development process beginning with the planning quickly followed by the code. He shows the creation of the initial view, making the routing changes and how to handle signup and login for the "Schedule With Me" page.

TutsPlus.com has continued their "Building Your Startup with PHP" series today with this latest tutorial covering the creation of an issue tracking and feature planning process with the help of the Anana service.

Even for a one-person startup, it helps to have more than a spreadsheet (or paper) to track issues, ideas, and bugs. A few years ago, I'd used Lighthouse for my grant-funded NewsCloud Community Starter Project. Last year, I'd been introduced to Asana during a consulting gig.

[...] Eventually, I found my way and discovered the tool works well whether you're working with a variety of people or just solo. In today's episode, I'll walk you through how I began using Asana for Meeting Planner. I use Asana not only to track issues but to organize them and plan for the future. I also use it to track and process bugs.

He walks you through getting started with the service (they have a free tier) and how to set up your first project. He includes examples of task creation, tagging tasks and tracking bugs right inside the service. He then uses it to create a "release plan" for the next version of the Meeting Planner application. He wraps up the post talking about what's next on his side for the Planner application and its funding goals.

TutsPlus.com has posted the latest part in their "Building Your Startup with PHP" series today with a focus on delivering notifications to your users when meeting information is updated.

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example. Every step along the way, I'll release the Meeting Planner code as open-source examples you can learn from. I'll also address startup-related business issues as they arise.

In the prior episode, I described building the infrastructure for tracking changes to meetings so we would know how to share updates with participants. In this episode, I'll cover monitoring the log and delivering email notifications of changes.

They start with a look at monitoring for updates to current meetings via a "actionFrequent" method and the code required to locate and notify the correct people of the updates. Next up is the logging of these changes to the audit log and pulling a history of the meeting to show what actually changed. Finally there's code to deliver the actual update email.