SoulSe Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 I've been looking for a calendar script for my website and have just finished going through the PHP Resource Index and Googling. I need to post the times of my radio shows and club gigs. There are lots of calendars out there, but they are all more complicated then what I need. I just want a display with times, dates and events. I'd like two columns, date and time in the left column, events details in the right column. And then a page where I can add data on the fly from anywhere, and it just packs them under each other. It would also be cool if it would strike out passed events. Oh, and it should preferably use a flat text database as opposed to SQL. I thought something so simple would be all over the place... Anyone know of one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 What you want is not to hard to program, although it is much easier to use a database then a flat file. With the database you can easily sort by date and exclude older date items etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 http://www.hotscripts.com ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 I will mock up a quick script for you today sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 Ok here is a basic script for you. very little error checking/features It's just a demo for you, so you can write a better one. for what you want you would need to write a date sort function to order the events, and add in a format function for strip slashes on input etc.. I didn't want to spend anymore time on it. create a folder in your apache root folder stick these 3 files into it (make sure to change the owner of the txt file to apache so it can be written to. in a web browser open http://localhost/foldername/index.php event_list.txt 15/8/03 Pantera killing boy bands 25/8/03 Blah blah 28/8/03 My cat is vicious 20/8/03 A new event 30/8/03 SoulSe holiday 31/10/03 Johnnyv's birthday, Spooky;P index.php <HTML> <BODY> <?php include("date.php"); event_input(); create_event_table(); ?> </BODY> </HTML> date.php <?php // events text file name used in functions $filename = "event_list.txt"; function create_event_table() { // grab the contents of the file $contents = read_event_file(); $contents = explode("n", $contents); $contents_lenght = count($contents); if($contents_lenght > 1) { $rows = ""; $i = 0; while($i < $contents_lenght) { $parts = explode("t", $contents[$i]); if(compare_dates($parts[0]))// check if date is in future or today, if it is output it { $rows = $rows."<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">$parts[0]</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">$parts[1]</td></tr>"; } $i++; } echo "<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="1" style="text-align: left; width: 100%;"><tbody>n"; echo "<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">Date</td><td style="vertical-align: top;">Event</td></tr>"; echo $rows; echo "</tbody></table>n"; } else { echo "No events in event list"; } } function event_input() { if($_POST['date'] && $_POST['event']) { // there is post data so input it into the file if it is a valid date if(compare_dates($_POST['date'])) { // remove any endlines or tags that could cause problems $event = $_POST['event']; $event = ereg_replace("n"," ", $event); $event = ereg_replace("t"," ", $event); write_event_file($_POST['date'], $event); } else { echo "Invalid date!<br>"; } } // make a form for adding events echo "<FORM method="post" action="index.php">"; echo "Date: <INPUT type=text name="date" size=12>(d/m/y eg) 31/10/03)"; echo " Event: <INPUT type=text name="event" size=60>"; echo "<p><INPUT type=submit value="Add Event"></p></FORM>"; } function read_event_file() { // function for reading the events text file Global $filename; $file = fopen($filename,"r"); $contents = fread($file, filesize($filename)); fclose($file); return $contents; } function write_event_file($date, $event) { // function for writing to the events text file Global $filename; $file = fopen($filename,"a"); $line = $date."t".$event."n"; fwrite($file, $line); fclose($file); } function compare_dates($date) { // bloody SoulSe not wanting to use a database, database date sorting much easier $todays_date = date("d/m/y"); $todays_date = explode("/",$todays_date); $date = explode("/",$date); if($date[2] >= $todays_date[2])// year { if($date[1] >= $todays_date[1])// month { if($date[0] >= $todays_date[0])// day { return true; } else { return false; } } else { return false; } } else { return false; } } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Thanks a lot, that is great. I don't program at all, I was planning to learn PHP but then got really busy. So now I generally use other people's scripts. I'll mess around with it and get it working, thanks again. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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