In need of a calendar...

jtelling

Forgive me if this is a repeat, but I'm a bit sleepy... I switched (yay!) from phpBB to Vanilla on my family's website. I used a phpBB add-on that allowed for a calendar, so many family members put anniversaries and birthdays and such on the family calendar. Since I'm no longer using phpBB, I've got no calendar. So, to keep this related to Vanilla (heh), does anyone know of a good reasonable PHP-based free/GPL calendar that I could use to have my family members keep track of important dates? Nothing fancy, just something simple that works ... like Vanilla :)

3stripe

Dude, i'm impressed you havea family website, very 21st century :-)

You {could} set up an account with somewhere like Backpackit (http://www.backpackit.com/) that let's you set reminders, which are added to a calendar, that any ical user can subscribe to... (Apple iCal, Mozilla Calendar, etc)

Apart from that I'm stumped, would be interested to know what else is out there...

Minisweeper

If you dont [or even do...] find one, i think this would be a pretty cool extension (similar to the news ideas etc).
I have a calendar-esq thing in php but it'd probably need quite a bit of work doing to it to get it how you wanted (and would probably just be easier to make a new one..)

outbreak

agreed.

Markle Sparkle

I'm hoping to convert my phpBB forum over to Vanilla but the calendar is a pretty integral part of it all. Is anyone working on this? I have no idea where to start...

unipus

I once contemplated using this one, but went with something simpler and pseudo-homebrew instead: http://www.easilysimplecalendar.com/ I have used PHP Event Calendar before... it's all right. http://www.softcomplex.com/products/php_event_calendar/

Mark

I actually have a php calendar control that I wrote for my own personal billing software package that I use to record my tasks and bill clients. I can take it out and pass it off if someone wants to use it for this purpose. It just draws a calendar that you can navigate and hyperlink dates and whatnot.

outbreak

that sounds pretty awesome.

jtelling

hey Mark, sounds nifty. good luck to whomever can tackle that. now, an extension that used a custom label/value pairs that started with "cal:" to populate the calendar with neat info would rock... I'd buy beers for whomever could accomplish that...

dom

Free beer you say? Now that's a thing worth coding for!

Max3000

Hey! I need a calendar too.
I´ld like to integrate the google kalendar into the vanilla surrounding, but my php knowledge is quasi non-existent.
(the installation of the link http://www.google.com/calendar/ into the main-menue at the init-internal.php $Menu->AddTab($Context->GetDefinition("Kalender"), "kalender", "http://www.google.com/calendar/", "KalenderTab"); is my greatest php-victory yet ;-) )

What is the code for e.g. calendar.php that integrates the content from: http://www.google.com/calendar/ into my vanilla forum?

Is there any solution out there?

thanks a lot,
m.

c-unit

Bergamot wrote one that he integrated with his forum/wordrpess at http://pong.uwstout.edu/ maybe he'd be willing to share?

ccmehil

If you are going for the Google Calendar I would use the RSS feed for a "Shared Public" one, it wouldn't be a "mini calendar" but that together with the Feeds extension and you've saved yourself a ton of time.

MIght also want to use this: http://googlecalbutton.com/index.php

Max3000

thanks.
i wrote him.
any other ideas? what is the code before and after the include("http://www.google.com/calendar/"); that conjures the vanilla-sidebar, header and footer around it?

Bergamot

I'd be glad to post the code I used, but it was a quick hack, and not really designed to be portable. I'm sure it would work on another site, but you would have to spend some serious time getting it to look decent and do what you want. The only reason I wrote my own was that none of the available ones had event registration.

nathan

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I actually have a php calendar control that I wrote for my own personal billing software package that I use to record my tasks and bill clients. I can take it out and pass it off if someone wants to use it for this purpose.
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Wait. I don't want the calendar. I want the damn billing software :P