Integrate events calendar for the community

markkugel

Hi vanilla people,

I'm looking for a events calendar tool/plugin/application that interact with vanilla forums or blog or a dedicated page.
What I wish is adding a "Upcomming Events" block (just like "My Profile", "Categories" or "Popular Tags").
There will show the X next events (or events in the X next days) from an integrate calendar. I dont want to gather Google or facebook-like Calendar feeds.

My choosen vanilla-users will be able to publish a new event just like making a new post.
Does any one hear about a kind of tool like this ?

Thank you.

leafmonster

I'd like to validate that this would be a great extension, but no such thing exists to my knowledge.

This would not too complicated, but definitely not trivial to implement. So if you're not a developer you'll have to somehow inspire one...

Thinking how about how this might be implemented... I suppose it could be done as a whole separate Vanilla application, which makes sense for some reasons.

But I'm sort of imagining integrating better as a special thread category, where each thread is given time/place metadata. Thus the events could be discussed forum-style, but could simultaneously be displayed in calendar format, in a sidebar panel or on a separate page.

leafmonster

I'd like to validate that this would be a great extension, but no such thing exists to my knowledge.

This would not too complicated, but definitely not trivial to implement. So if you're not a developer you'll have to somehow inspire one...

Thinking how about how this might be implemented... I suppose it could be done as a whole separate Vanilla application, which makes sense for some reasons.

But I'm sort of imagining integrating better as a special thread category, where each thread is given time/place metadata. Thus the events could be discussed forum-style, but could simultaneously be displayed in calendar format, in a sidebar panel or on a separate page.

markkugel

hmmm too sad nothing like this already exist.
I think you are right about integrating as a special category is such the better way.
I'm definatly not a developer nor dev-fan, but I will look to documentation to know how to hook a category to insert meta data into the database.
Once it's done, it should not be too complicate to read it from a tools like "FullCalendar".

If I find a way (may take time), I will post how I make it there.