Status: Neglected
Features:
- Displays a calendar.
- Can display "text" on any day.
- Highlights current day (easily "commented" out).
- Navigation between months dependent on items in that month.
- Data stored in text file for easy manual entry.
- A very simple admin interface geared torwards bulk entry of items also provided.
- Fully customizable via HTML and PHP.
Features Not So Simple and You Probably Won't Need:
- Week can start on any day (only Sunday and Monday really (sorta) tested though). Default is Sunday.
- Can have one day of week missing. Default is none.
Requirements:
- A purpose similar to mine.
- PHP 4.x (?)**
- If you want to use the provided admin interface (not required), the ability to control access to a directory (e.g. .htaccess).
** I developed it under 4.2 and run it under 4.0.4pl1. Requires --enable-calendar if <=4.0.5 (although there's a simple hack to get around this). Your mileage may vary.
Example:
Well, now, I actually use a modified version of this under Drupal: http://www.arizmendibakery.com/pizza. This is how I use it. Notice how our week starts on Monday, but hey, we're closed Mondays so we don't show it. This is not the default setup.
Install Instructions:
- Put on a webserver that runs the required version of PHP.
- If you are going to use the admin interface (not required), make sure the "user" that the webserver runs under can write to your data file.
- Use admin interface or just modify calendar.dat file to your liking.
Format: YEAR::MONTH::DAY::ITEM - Put this somewhere in a php file: <? include("calendar.inc") ?>
History:
I work at a bakery. I had been modifying an HTML document each month for our pizza schedule. It was tedious and I didn't want to do it anymore. But everyone at the bakery is, um, a baker, and not a computer person. So I needed something simple that anyone could use. Of course, I searched around and nothing quite fit the bill, but I found one that was close (http://www.danagas.com/php/calendar/) and modified it.
Over the years I modified it more to make it easier (unfortunately, I never released a new version), and just recently I made it a Drupal module with some nifty DHTML drag and drop so no more typing in all the pizzas. But that's another program I'll probably never get around to releasing.
License:
Uh, GPL, sure, why not.