Creating a Calendar.

[FireMike84]

Hello,

I am working on a website and would like to include an events calendar to the website where people can go and see upcomming events and get more information about them. What I would like to do is create a webpage that can be used to create the calendars and add the events so that I can have another employee with no web development experience do all the data entry. I am really at a lose of the best way to do this. I was hoping to use PHP to create the calendar webpages and use it to modify a text file which is what the calendars will look at for there information. This does however seem very complicated and I think that I might just need to suck it up and create a Java Applet that will handle all of this. If anyone has any ideas that might help me please share.

Thanks,

Mike Walton
Network+

 

[ca8msm]

Well you are definately going to have to use a server side language to get the data so I'd suggest going with either a language you are familiar with or even ask in a few of the server language forums. Once, you've done that then we can help with any client side issues you have (e.g. formatting the calender etc).


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[FireMike84]

Thanks for your reply I will look deeper into the server side langauge.

Thanks,

Mike Walton
Network+

 

[ChrisHunt]

I have something like that on one of my sites -

http://www.leicesteryha.org.uk

. The back-end's written in perl, and uses a couple of flat files to store the event information. I'm going to move it over to use MySQL in the coming year.

I can't offer you my source code, I'm afraid, but you might get some ideas on some different ways to present calendar information.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[manarth]

Offering a downloadable iCal can be quite nice.

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[Xaqte]

Take a look at:

http://www.planscalendar.com/

Speaking from personal experience, it is really good! They also have a forum available, if you have any problems.

I hope you like it!

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[mkrausnick]

There are TONS of online event calendars - a lot of them free - that will do what you want - i.e. allow some users to view events and other users to maintain the calendar. Why re-invent the wheel?

Google "online event calendar".

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[wiser3]

This is the calendar program i use. It's written in php, very ease to set up. Plenty of build in options for customization.

http://www.sweetphp.com/nuke/modules.php?name=Script_Preview&script=12