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copied!<p>Let <code>$shift_id</code> be the id of the shift that your user wants to swap.</p> <pre><code>select swappable.shift_id, swappable.user_id, swappable.description, FROM_UNIXTIME(swappable.shiftstart) as start, FROM_UNIXTIME(swappable.shiftend) as end, (swappable.shiftend - swappable.shiftstart) - sum(coalesce(least(conflict.shiftend, swappable.shiftend) - greatest(conflict.shiftstart, swappable.shiftstart), 0)) as swaptime, group_concat(conflict.shift_id) as conflicts, group_concat(concat(FROM_UNIXTIME(conflict.shiftstart), ' - ', FROM_UNIXTIME(conflict.shiftend))) as conflict_times from shifts as problem join shifts as swappable on swappable.user_id != problem.user_id left join shifts as conflict on conflict.user_id = problem.user_id and conflict.shiftstart < swappable.shiftend and conflict.shiftend > swappable.shiftstart where problem.shift_id = 1 group by swappable.shift_id having swaptime > 0; </code></pre> <p>Tested with:</p> <pre><code>CREATE TABLE `shifts` ( `shift_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `user_id` varchar(20) NOT NULL, `shiftstart` int unsigned NOT NULL, `shiftend` int unsigned NOT NULL, `description` varchar(32) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`shift_id`) ); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (1,'april', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 10:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 12:00:00'),'Needs to be swapped'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (2,'bill', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 10:30:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 11:30:00'),'Inside today'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (3,'casey', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 12:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 14:00:00'),'Immediately after today'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (4,'casey', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 08:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 10:00:00'),'Immediately before today'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (5,'david', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 11:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-04 15:00:00'),'Partly after today'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (6,'april', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-05 10:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-05 12:00:00'),'Tommorow'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (7,'bill', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-05 09:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-05 11:00:00'),'Partly before tomorrow'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (8,'casey', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-05 10:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-05 12:00:00'),'Equals tomorrow'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (9,'david', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-05 10:30:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-05 11:30:00'),'Inside tomorrow'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (10,'april',UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-11 10:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-11 12:00:00'),'Next week'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (11,'april',UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-11 12:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-11 14:00:00'),'Second shift'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (12,'bill', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-11 11:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-11 13:00:00'),'Overlaps two'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (13,'casey',UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-11 17:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-04-11 19:00:00'),'No conflict'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (14,'april',UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-05-04 10:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-05-04 12:00:00'),'Next month'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (15,'april',UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-05-04 13:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-05-04 15:00:00'),'After break'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (16,'bill', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-05-04 11:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-05-04 14:00:00'),'Middle okay'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (17,'april',UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-04-04 10:00:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-04-04 11:00:00'),'Next year'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (18,'april',UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-04-04 11:30:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-04-04 12:00:00'),'After break'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (19,'april',UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-04-04 12:30:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-04-04 13:30:00'),'Third part'); insert into `shifts`(`shift_id`,`user_id`,`shiftstart`,`shiftend`,`description`) values (20,'bill', UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-04-04 10:30:00'),UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2010-04-04 13:00:00'),'Two parts okay'); </code></pre> <p>Results:</p> <pre><code>'shift_id', 'user_id', 'description', 'start', 'end', 'swaptime', 'conflicts', 'conflict_times' '3', 'casey', 'Immediately after today', '2009-04-04 12:00:00', '2009-04-04 14:00:00', '7200', NULL, NULL '4', 'casey', 'Immediately before today', '2009-04-04 08:00:00', '2009-04-04 10:00:00', '7200', NULL, NULL '5', 'david', 'Partly after today', '2009-04-04 11:00:00', '2009-04-04 15:00:00', '10800', '1', '2009-04-04 10:00:00 - 2009-04-04 12:00:00' '7', 'bill', 'Partly before tomorrow', '2009-04-05 09:00:00', '2009-04-05 11:00:00', '3600', '6', '2009-04-05 10:00:00 - 2009-04-05 12:00:00' '13', 'casey', 'No conflict', '2009-04-11 17:00:00', '2009-04-11 19:00:00', '7200', NULL, NULL '16', 'bill', 'Middle okay', '2009-05-04 11:00:00', '2009-05-04 14:00:00', '3600', '15,14', '2009-05-04 13:00:00 - 2009-05-04 15:00:00,2009-05-04 10:00:00 - 2009-05-04 12:00:00' '20', 'bill', 'Two parts okay', '2010-04-04 10:30:00', '2010-04-04 13:00:00', '3600', '19,18,17', '2010-04-04 12:30:00 - 2010-04-04 13:30:00,2010-04-04 11:30:00 - 2010-04-04 12:00:00,2010-04-04 10:00:00 - 2010-04-04 11:00:00' </code></pre> <p>This shows all shifts for which any portion(s) can be swapped, including how much total time (in seconds) is swappable. The final column, <code>conflict_times</code>, shows the times for which the swapping user is already scheduled to work. It should be easy for the application to extract the available times from that; it's possible, but very tricky, in MySQL.</p>

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