Calendar limitations

scottkyle

http://www.phplite.com/products/calendarexpress/demo.php
Calendar Express and other PHP based web calendars seem to not be able to display "upcoming events" that span multiple months or years. What's up with that. I gotta go to a cgi calendar for that? In Calendar Express 2.2 you can display x number of days of events in a list, but it shows days with no events as well. Argh! It looks really cheesy if you display a list on your web page with days listed with no events (ie. http://chapters.usgbc.org/jrgbc/testpage.html). Anybody have a way to supress these days with no events?

Thanks.

rsmith

Try EasePHP Calendar. I just implemented it on a site and it's fantastic.

scottkyle

Thanks for the link. But this is what I was talking about being limited by. The list only shows the current month. What if you wanted to show the next 15 events that are coming up. There could be 4 in Jan 2 in Feb 1 in Mar. etc. I guess the way most of these work is fine for really big organizations that have events every day. But go to unitedforpeace.org and see the events list on te lower left of the page. That is hat I want to do.

Thanks again.

rsmith

Ah. I would guess that calendar was written from scratch or has a select statement in the sql query to specify a set number of days or events to grab before displaying.

bradgrafelman

Have you tried contacting the webmaster of unitedforpeace.org and asking him/her if the calendar was a freeware script?

Alternatively, you may try searching places like HotScripts or simply writing your own. Really, it wouldn't take much to write your own event script as you're talking about, since there's really no visual "calendar" involved. All you'd do is input events and dates (use [man]strtotime/man to generate a Unix timestamp and store the integer) into a SQL database, and run a query like so:

SELECT `eventName`, `eventDescription`, `eventTime` FROM `events` WHERE `eventTime` >= UNIX_TIMESTAMP() LIMIT 10