Event Calendar

[pixillionsaul]

Hi Guys,

Basically I'm looking for an event calendar that can do a layout similar to this:

sundance film calendar (http://www.sundance.org/festival/film_events/calendar.asp)

I know the above isn't php, but I need my solution to be. I can find loads of php calendars but none that are laid out in this daily horizontal schedule, I guess it's more of a tv/film/festival scheduler I'm after, but despite my best Googling efforts I can't find a thing.

Cheers

[Greyfish]

Make your own :-)

[pixillionsaul]

That would be ideal but it would take me a long time to build something like this, considering it needs to have a friendly UI so it can be content managed, to start from scratch would mean having to do a whole dev cycle on it, which isn't really a possibility.
So theres no current calendar out there like this? Anyone know of one thats even close? It would be fun to have a tweak of an existing one to see If I can get it close to what we need.

I see you've been having a go at your own, Greyfish. Hows it coming?

[Greyfish]

Mine is coming along very well, I've pretty much finished it except I'm still working on a recurring event feature. I've never really seen a daily horizontal scheduler like you need, maybe after I finish my event calendar I could start working on something like that. I'm trying to build a solid library of fully custom web applications to offer my clients and a daily scheduler might be a good thing to have. I'll let you know if I start working on it!

[pixillionsaul]

Cool, yeah they definitely only have a niche use, festivals, tv schedules etc, but let me know if you decide to have a go. I guess for the time being I'll have to keep looking. I'm sure there must be something out there I can tweak into what I need.

[Greyfish]

I'll let you know! Good luck!

[tracknut]

You may have seen it, but easyphpcalendar.com is a really nice product. It doesn't have a calendar view like the one you describe, but if there's a way you could code that view, it does have nice management and entry interfaces already written.

Dave

[pixillionsaul]

Yeah I had a look at easyphpcalender, looks pretty cool. It definitely has the UI we want. But to figure out how I'd make a horizontal, hour by hour schedule, with multiple venues, is proving pretty tricky. It looks like its sorting by hour which is a start I guess, but I'm drawing a blank on how you'd map the time and length of the event, to the relevant position on the timetable. Hmm the more I think about this the tricker it sounds.

[Greyfish]

The thing I don't like about using pre-made applications like this is when something goes wrong its really hard to troubleshoot and pin-point the problem. Its always easier to navigate through a maze that you made rather than a maze someone else has made.

[pixillionsaul]

I think it depends on how well the maze is signposted and laid out. Or, to break out of metaphors for a second, if its well commented and structured logically bug fixing isn't too hard. Also with a pre-built solution theres probably some sort of community, which is a huge advantage.

Probably getting sidetracked now. So, to get back on topic, no one else has any knowledge of something close to what I'm looking for?

[Greyfish]

I looked for about 30 minutes, I couldn't find anything!