appointment booking form

My new site needs an appointment booking application. I was thinking I could build a form in flash that when submitted checks a php script to see if it is available ( 1 if 0 if not) is this a good way to build it? Anyone know of a better way of a tut to jump start this project?

could you not just send the form to yourself by email?

i think the client wants it live, so the person can make sure the item is available for the intended date before inquiring further

I reckon you should set up a mysql database with appointment times filled, and a simple form for the client to enter appointments manually to the database and as you'd planned use php to check this database