Web Calendar

[jayson]

I am looking for a web calendar, I need to know what the best one out there is. I am looking for freeware if possible, I found one but to install it mjade my eyes hurt.

 

Thanks

[TCH-Don]

You did not say which one you found?

Here is one that a few members here have installed

http://www.planscalendar.com/

[nortk]

I have used php iCalendar, which I can synchronize with Mozilla's Sunbird.

 

http://phpicalendar.net

Edited November 26, 2005 by nortk

[jayson]

is php icalendar freeware?

[nortk]

Yes. It's open source, downloadable from sourceforge.net

 

As an aside...iCalendar is good for displaying calendars. It's not for addding/deleting. I use sunbird to create items, which are automatically added to my iCalendar site. I can put Sunbird on multiple computers, and they all synchronize with iCalendar.

Edited November 26, 2005 by nortk

[jnull]

I have had great success w/ this one: http://www.easilysimplecalendar.com/ with quite a few clients. The price is very reasonable for such a powerful piece of calendaring software.

 

 

Edit: TCH-Bruce corrected link

[jayson]

Jim, page can not be displayed

[jnull]

My bad ... it is http://www.easilysimplecalendar.com/

[lgwapnitsky]

I have used php iCalendar, which I can synchronize with Mozilla's Sunbird.

 

http://phpicalendar.net

How do you get this to sync with Sunbird without WebDAV support? The lastest version of Sunbird no longer has the FTP option.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums.

 

If it requires WebDAV support you will not find that here. And there are no plans to install it.

[nortk]

If you install php iCalendar, it includes a php script named publish.mozilla.php

 

In SunBird, you can tell it that you are using WebDAV, and then point it to the php file. Sunbird thinks it's WebDAV, even though it isn't.

 

So, I use SunBird on several different computers, all of which access the same remote calendars using this php script. I don't save my calendars locally with SunBird. Instead, they just reside in my TCH web directory.

 

It wasn't TOO bad getting it set up, but I did have to play around a bit to get all the file permissions set up just right. The documentation for it is available online.

 

Hope this helps.

[lgwapnitsky]

If you install php iCalendar, it includes a php script named publish.mozilla.php

 

In SunBird, you can tell it that you are using WebDAV, and then point it to the php file. Sunbird thinks it's WebDAV, even though it isn't.

 

So, I use SunBird on several different computers, all of which access the same remote calendars using this php script. I don't save my calendars locally with SunBird. Instead, they just reside in my TCH web directory.

 

It wasn't TOO bad getting it set up, but I did have to play around a bit to get all the file permissions set up just right. The documentation for it is available online.

 

Hope this helps.

 

It appears that Sunbird no longer saves the .ics files, rather it saves them in a database. Any ideas?

 

Thanks

[nortk]

The latest Sunbird version does let you export items as a .ics file. I think you may first need to create such a file locally, upload it to the php iCalendar /calendars directory, and then do the necessary configuring so that Sunbird opens that remote file using the publish.mozilla.php script.

 

Unfortunately, this is not all straightforward, and it does take some tinkering to get it all working. For me, it was worth the effort, as it allows my wife and I to keep separate work calendars as well as a combined "home" calendar, all of which we can both access using Sunbird.

 

Feel free to e-mail me or send a private message if you want more information about how I managed to get all of this going.

[TCH-Tim]

I finally got around to taking a look at iCalendar and the web layout looks nice. Is there any kind of web-based admin interface available for inputting events? I don't need to synch desktop calendars with the web calendar, I need people to just be able to use the web calendar from any PC.

[TCH-Mark]

Hello,

 

There is no admin interface for you to creat events etc.

 

 

This is from their website

 

PHP iCalendar is a PHP-based iCal file viewer/parser to display iCals in a Web browser. Its based on v2.0 of the IETF spec (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt). It displays iCal files in a nice logical, clean manner with day, week, month, and year navigation. It is available in 13 languages and includes support for printing, searching and RSS news feeds.

[TCH-Bruce]

But Plans Calendar does.

[TCH-Tim]

With a little hacking up, Plans might do the trick. Thanks for the lead Bruce.

[TCH-Bruce]

NP, my wife has been using it for a couple of years now. One of the themes they have is one she did (the Pink one).

[TCH-Tim]

Another good one I found recently is ExtCalendar 2. I like the admin interface. My customer requires user and group management, and this has done a nice job of handling that. Adding/deleting users and limiting what groups can or cannot do is very easy. The main calendar interface is quite nice as well out of the box, and if you aren't afraid of PHP and CSS, the sky is the limit on customization. So far, this is probably my favorite.

 

Bruce, I played around with Plans for a week or two and it's pretty nice. I'm just more comfortable with PHP vs. Perl.

[jayson]

is it free?

[TCH-Tim]

Of course.