want to turn dynamically generated calendar into an "event" calendar...

ATS16805

in a book that i've been reading/ read, there is a project example in which a calendar and its tables are drawn by php, using mktime and getdate, and checkdate, etc. it is only a display calendar, using html select element (also created dynamically) for the user to enter a month in a year in which he or she wants to see that month of the calendar.

i'd like to take it one step further by making the cells clickable so that data can be entered, and the event data would be stored in MySQL.

if you want to see the code, i'll be glad to post it. i will cite the book and author to avoid copyright infringement. please let me know if you have any ideas.

maxpup979

so you figure out where the days are displayed, turn them into links, passing the date into an edit page. fill out a form that saves to mysql, and you are done. you could add extra features, like displaying a title and time in the calendar. There are lots and lots of things you could do with this--

ATS16805

if i can get this to work, i'll be really impressed with myself. i had actually thought that was the way to go-- the plan that you spelled out... but my problem is getting around the way the html is automatically "drawn" by a php FOR loop. to me, it is pretty amazing the way the author has coded it-- i mean, it seems it would have been easy to use html tables instead of letting php do all of the work, but instead, a bit of more profound thought and planning, actually made it easier on the coder because no one has to type out a load of <tr><td> blah, blah. it's all done automatically-- even the page title.

so, my challenge will be figuring out how to get in there and point each dynamically generated month day to an edit page, as you suggest. right now, i'm really stumped on where to begin. i'm afraid whatever i do will cause the FOR loops to error. i guess i'll never know unless i give it a shot!

thanks for your input! anyone out there done this type of thing before? (silly question, i'm sure someone has... it seems it would be the basis for any PHP event calendar app). anyone know of a good, simple PHP event calendar like what might be made if i get this script to work is i've described i want? it would be nice to have a model to look at... although, probably better that i at least try on my own first!