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Hi

Is there a document that describes how to install php-calendar on 
Windows as well as Linux?

Thanks

Peter Mount
in...@pe...

<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>
<P>I was playing about with the calendar and have successfully loaded but when i go to add a new user this page appears:<BR></P>
<P><STRONG>Parse error</STRONG>: parse error in <B>/var/www/calendar/includes/new_user_submit.php</B> on line <B>36</B><BR><BR><B>Fatal error</B>: Call to undefined function: new_user_submit() in <B>/var/www/calendar/index.php(53) : eval()'d code</B> on line <B>1</B><BR><BR><BR>I have looked at the code for hours and cant see where the problem lies, any help would be great.</P></DIV></div></html>

Greetings.

Just installed calendar and I'm getting a parse error when trying to add a
new user.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '\"' in
/home/templeto/public_html/calendar/includes/new_user_submit.php on line 54

Any ideas?

-tr

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I'm a very novice php user.  I would like to edit the calendar to use a
navigation bar much like the way Mudgeeraba Rural Fire Brigade
(http://www.mrfb.org.au/calendar.php) has their navigation bar set up.
However, I can't figure out which file(s) to edit.  Since the rest of my
site uses an include statement, I'd like to use that same format.

Can anyone shed any light on what I need to edit in order to use the =
include
statement?

Hi, I just installed php-calendar. Thanks, it's very helpful.

I have one problem: when I modify an event, the time start changes from whatever I originally set to 1:00 a.m. so I have to remember
to change the time back when I modify an event. Is there something I can do to fix that?

One suggestion: a monthly event that occurs on the same day each month, like the third sunday of every month kind of thing, similar
to the weekly event.

Thanks!

Jim

Sean Proctor wrote:

> I think having labels for specific occurrences of an event is a good
> idea regardless.
> I'm just trying to think of a good way to accomplish
> this. Maybe it'll be become clearer once I rewrite how occurrences are
> stored. Anyway, this is on the todo list.

Awesome Sean, many thanks.

Nathan

Hello,

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:10:45 -0800, Nathan Barham <na...@sl...> wrote:
> Sean Proctor wrote:
> > This one is tough. It would require having a label for each occurance
> > of an event. I guess that is doable. I'll have to think about it more.
> 
> Yes I see now that your events table does not track each occurrence of
> an event individually, so what I'm suggesting results in a conflict.  I
> wonder if a separate db table for tasks where each task _is_ tracked
> individually, perhaps coupled with a new eventtype for tasks, would make
> it easier to add this feature?

I think having labels for specific occurrences of an event is a good
idea regardless. I'm just trying to think of a good way to accomplish
this. Maybe it'll be become clearer once I rewrite how occurrences are
stored. Anyway, this is on the todo list.

Sean

Sean Proctor wrote:
> This one is tough. It would require having a label for each occurance
> of an event. I guess that is doable. I'll have to think about it more.

Yes I see now that your events table does not track each occurrence of 
an event individually, so what I'm suggesting results in a conflict.  I 
wonder if a separate db table for tasks where each task _is_ tracked 
individually, perhaps coupled with a new eventtype for tasks, would make 
it easier to add this feature?

Anyway, without the ability to schedule tasks in a recurring manner, and 
then track them individually (and also retain the ability to edit them 
collectively), it won't really be what I'm after.  Which, I see now, 
means that I'm asking for quite a lot.

Still, if you were to decide to add such a feature, I would patiently 
wait for it, and help if I could.  It would replace the one feature of 
Outlook that we can't seem to live without or easily replace.  It would 
be simple to use and deploy, and the ability to share the info would be 
a huge bonus.

Nathan

On Wed, February 9, 2005 9:51 pm, Nathan Barham said:
> Sean Proctor wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:41:51 -0800, Nathan Barham
>> <na...@sl...> wrote:
>>
>>>Are there any plans to add task management features to php-calendar in
>>>the future?
>>
>>
>> No, but I guess we can change that. I'm not sure what you mean by tasks.
>>
>>
>>>I'm thinking of something simple where tasks are tracked in a table much
>>>like the events are now, with a few added fields for say status, owner,
>>>and any notes related to the task.
>>
>>
>> I'm unclear on the difference between a task and an event.
>
> I'm thinking of tasks as todo items, where each item has a due date, and
> a status of "completed" or "not completed", that could be scheduled just
> like events, but that would carry forward and be dispalyed on the
> current day (or otherwise remind you) if the due date is in the past and
> the status is not yet "complete".  I suppose the main difference from
> events as I understand them is the notion of status, and that an
> incomplete status would cause the task to somehow jump out at you once
> you have moved past the due date.
>
> I would still want to schedule them in the same manner as events,
> especially retaining the ability to schedule them in a recurring manner,
> i.e. weekly, monthly etc..  Basically this is what Outlook allows you to
> do with tasks.
>
> Examples:
>
> Send client John Smith a check on the 15th of every month (recurring
> every month)
>
> or ..
>
> Call client John Smith on the 17th (one time task)
>
>
>> The plans
>> for the next version include a kind of labeling. Where you could add a
>> label to an event. Just now I thought of adding comments to events, so
>> I put that on the todo list. If you use labels for status and comments
>> or the description for your notes, the only thing you're missing is
>> the owner.
>
> Actually I suppose owner would not be that important, assuming I could
> make separate calendars for different purposes.  What's still missing is
> some way to be reminded if a task is late in being completed, i.e late
> tasks showing up on today's date in the calendar, or just a pop up on
> login that said "Hey all this stuff is late!".
>
>> Events kind of have an owner now, but that is just the
>> person who created the event.
>>
>> It seems to me like tasks are just a more specific version of events.
>> I'm trying to not add very specific features to the calendar that only
>> impact one set of users.
>
> Understood.  I was just wondering if php-calendar was going to head in
> this direction.  I want to get users away from Outlook, but I don't
> necessarily need all the project management stuff, complexity, learning
> curve etc that comes with some of the other open source solutions out
> there.
>
>  >  If I can add the functionality you need in a
>  > general way, then I'll do it.
>

Brilliant idea!

On Wed, February 9, 2005 7:04 pm, Sean Proctor said:
> Hello,
>
>
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:41:51 -0800, Nathan Barham <na...@sl...>
> wrote:
>> Are there any plans to add task management features to php-calendar in
>> the future?
>
> No, but I guess we can change that. I'm not sure what you mean by tasks.
>
>> I'm thinking of something simple where tasks are tracked in a table much
>> like the events are now, with a few added fields for say status, owner,
>> and any notes related to the task.
>
> I'm unclear on the difference between a task and an event. The plans
> for the next version include a kind of labeling. Where you could add a
> label to an event. Just now I thought of adding comments to events, so
> I put that on the todo list. If you use labels for status and comments
> or the description for your notes, the only thing you're missing is
> the owner. Events kind of have an owner now, but that is just the
> person who created the event.
>
> It seems to me like tasks are just a more specific version of events.
> I'm trying to not add very specific features to the calendar that only
> impact one set of users. If I can add the functionality you need in a
> general way, then I'll do it.
>

I'm not exactly sure what Nathan means but what I would find useful is a
task list. For example maybe an event that is not assigned a date and a
list of all these event types to the left of the calendar.

Gabriel

Hello,

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:51:48 -0800, Nathan Barham <na...@sl...> wrote:
> I'm thinking of tasks as todo items, where each item has a due date, and
> a status of "completed" or "not completed", that could be scheduled just
> like events, but that would carry forward and be dispalyed on the
> current day (or otherwise remind you) if the due date is in the past and
> the status is not yet "complete".  I suppose the main difference from
> events as I understand them is the notion of status, and that an
> incomplete status would cause the task to somehow jump out at you once
> you have moved past the due date.

Ah, I see. An interesting thought. Maybe we could do something like
this with labels. You'd create a task label or something, then we
could create a view for labels. And you could view all tasks before
today or up till today through that. So when you complete something
you could remove the task label or switch it to a completed label, and
you'd no long have to see it with the other tasks.

Do you think that would suffice for your purposes? Even if it would, I
need to warn you that it could be a long time until I get around to
implementing this. I have a full page of things that I want to do as
well. With this one, it's now 11 items. And the time that I've been
spending on the calendar recently has been pretty scarce.

> Send client John Smith a check on the 15th of every month (recurring
> every month)

This one is tough. It would require having a label for each occurance
of an event. I guess that is doable. I'll have to think about it more.

Sean

Sean Proctor wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:41:51 -0800, Nathan Barham <na...@sl...> wrote:
> 
>>Are there any plans to add task management features to php-calendar in
>>the future?
> 
> 
> No, but I guess we can change that. I'm not sure what you mean by tasks.
> 
> 
>>I'm thinking of something simple where tasks are tracked in a table much
>>like the events are now, with a few added fields for say status, owner,
>>and any notes related to the task.
> 
> 
> I'm unclear on the difference between a task and an event.

I'm thinking of tasks as todo items, where each item has a due date, and 
a status of "completed" or "not completed", that could be scheduled just 
like events, but that would carry forward and be dispalyed on the 
current day (or otherwise remind you) if the due date is in the past and 
the status is not yet "complete".  I suppose the main difference from 
events as I understand them is the notion of status, and that an 
incomplete status would cause the task to somehow jump out at you once 
you have moved past the due date.

I would still want to schedule them in the same manner as events, 
especially retaining the ability to schedule them in a recurring manner, 
i.e. weekly, monthly etc..  Basically this is what Outlook allows you to 
do with tasks.

Examples:

Send client John Smith a check on the 15th of every month (recurring 
every month)

or ..

Call client John Smith on the 17th (one time task)

> The plans
> for the next version include a kind of labeling. Where you could add a
> label to an event. Just now I thought of adding comments to events, so
> I put that on the todo list. If you use labels for status and comments
> or the description for your notes, the only thing you're missing is
> the owner.

Actually I suppose owner would not be that important, assuming I could 
make separate calendars for different purposes.  What's still missing is 
some way to be reminded if a task is late in being completed, i.e late 
tasks showing up on today's date in the calendar, or just a pop up on 
login that said "Hey all this stuff is late!".

> Events kind of have an owner now, but that is just the
> person who created the event.
> 
> It seems to me like tasks are just a more specific version of events.
> I'm trying to not add very specific features to the calendar that only
> impact one set of users.

Understood.  I was just wondering if php-calendar was going to head in 
this direction.  I want to get users away from Outlook, but I don't 
necessarily need all the project management stuff, complexity, learning 
curve etc that comes with some of the other open source solutions out there.

 >  If I can add the functionality you need in a
 > general way, then I'll do it.

Thanks for even considering it.

Nathan

Hello,

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:41:51 -0800, Nathan Barham <na...@sl...> wrote:
> Are there any plans to add task management features to php-calendar in
> the future?

No, but I guess we can change that. I'm not sure what you mean by tasks.

> I'm thinking of something simple where tasks are tracked in a table much
> like the events are now, with a few added fields for say status, owner,
> and any notes related to the task.

I'm unclear on the difference between a task and an event. The plans
for the next version include a kind of labeling. Where you could add a
label to an event. Just now I thought of adding comments to events, so
I put that on the todo list. If you use labels for status and comments
or the description for your notes, the only thing you're missing is
the owner. Events kind of have an owner now, but that is just the
person who created the event.

It seems to me like tasks are just a more specific version of events.
I'm trying to not add very specific features to the calendar that only
impact one set of users. If I can add the functionality you need in a
general way, then I'll do it.

Sean

Are there any plans to add task management features to php-calendar in 
the future?

I'm thinking of something simple where tasks are tracked in a table much 
like the events are now, with a few added fields for say status, owner, 
and any notes related to the task.

-Nathan

I am seriously thinking about writing a proper API so other php scripts
can interface with the calendar.

Some of my ideas are:

1. Configurable event type so you can have organisation specific events.
2. Option for the edit link to go to an external page.
3. Add a new field to the event table to store a key relevant to the
external page.
4. Create a set of functions to get and set dates through the API.

I have created a simple version of this already for my our company admin
system which is web based but is a bit of a mess and my admin system
doesn't use adodb so the db calls are a bit of a mess.

What do you think?

Gabriel

-- 
Gabriel Harrison
Web Development and IT Support
1 Hawthorn Crescent
Durham DH1 1ED
Tel: 0191 370 9181
Mob: 07939 231 720

On Tue, February 8, 2005 1:12 pm, Sean Proctor said:
> Hello,
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:42:03 -0000 (GMT Standard Time), Gabriel
> Harrison <Ga...@ga...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is a bug when you are on january and click previous month. Rather
>> than going to December it goes to year view (not implemented).
>>
>> I did a fix on one install but can't remember how exactly but the bug
>> arises because the link would be ?action=display&year=2005&month=0 but
>> month=0 gets dropped from the url.
>
> Does it? It shouldn't. before there was a problem where I was just
> testing $month == false, not $month === false (yes, PHP is crazy). Is
> this problem with 0.10.1? I know this problem existed in 0.10, but I
> thought it was fixed. Maybe it is dependent on setup or browser.
>

Ah sorry I am using an older version and just tested it on the demo
calendar but notice that is 0.9.1

Gabriel

Hello,

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:42:03 -0000 (GMT Standard Time), Gabriel
Harrison <Ga...@ga...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is a bug when you are on january and click previous month. Rather
> than going to December it goes to year view (not implemented).
> 
> I did a fix on one install but can't remember how exactly but the bug
> arises because the link would be ?action=display&year=2005&month=0 but
> month=0 gets dropped from the url.

Does it? It shouldn't. before there was a problem where I was just
testing $month == false, not $month === false (yes, PHP is crazy). Is
this problem with 0.10.1? I know this problem existed in 0.10, but I
thought it was fixed. Maybe it is dependent on setup or browser.

Sean

Hi,

I have hacked about my install of the calendar to display it all in one
box, see http://www.ghserver.co.uk/test/calendar.htm

Because of the way the nav-bar and options bar works they don't appear on
every page. How easy would it be for this to be added as a new feature but
with the options bars on all pages?

Gabriel

-- 
Gabriel Harrison
Web Development and IT Support
1 Hawthorn Crescent
Durham DH1 1ED
Tel: 0191 370 9181
Mob: 07939 231 720

Hi,

There is a bug when you are on january and click previous month. Rather
than going to December it goes to year view (not implemented).

I did a fix on one install but can't remember how exactly but the bug
arises because the link would be ?action=display&year=2005&month=0 but
month=0 gets dropped from the url.

Hope that helps,

Gabriel

-- 
Gabriel Harrison
Web Development and IT Support
1 Hawthorn Crescent
Durham DH1 1ED
Tel: 0191 370 9181
Mob: 07939 231 720

Sean,

That sounds great! Basically I would like to create a category, assign =
it a
color, and any event in that category would show that color on the =
monthly
view, either in the text or background. A Service Call would show blue, =
and
a Repair yellow, etc, for example. I'm pretty sure you understand what I
mean. Now I can finally step away from Windows.

Thanks,
George

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Proctor [mailto:spr...@gm...]=20
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:35 PM
To: G.E.Skorup
Subject: Re: [Php-calendar-discussion] Categories

Hi,

I'm glad to hear that you like it. I'm really swamped with work right =
now
and probably will be for the next couple weeks. My friend and I had a =
long
discussion on improving the calendar the other day. Since the database
format is going to be changing anyway, it wouldn't be a big deal to add =
the
feature you want. I was thinking you could have a type for each event. =
types
could be created dynamically, and then when you're creating the event =
you
could pick the type. For each type I was thinking of having a string for =
the
CSS class so you could have some arbitrary style associated with it, a
string for the color in the month view, and a title of the type. If you =
have
any other requirements, let me know.

Sean
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Hello list,

I am currently using iCal on a Windows 2000 AS box. It works quite well. =
The
only problem I have is.. Windows will be retired throughout my entire
network very soon. This leaves me with the wonderful world of =
OpenSource. I
have found php-calendar to be the best replacement for iCal. However, =
the
only request I have is the addition for colorized categories. I guess I
could try to rework the code myself.. but I'm not that knowledgeable. =
Even
without categories php-calendar is just cool and it's very simple to =
install
and work with. Still the category support would be an advantage. Hey, =
maybe
not even categories just colorized tables for the month view. In my =
business
we have different tasks like install, repair, service call, which all =
have
different colors so it's easy to understand. Would anything like this be
possible for the author (or other) to implement?

Thanks,
George

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Sean Proctor wrote:
> 
> It defaults to whatever time the event you're editing is or 6PM. Maybe
> there's a better default time. That's just the one I picked.

I see.  Well if you change it I'd vote for something in the AM, just so 
people who aren't paying attention don't accidentally schedule events 
for 11:00 at night.

> I'm glad to hear it. I would like to start a list of sites using the
> calendar to post on the website. Would you like yours to be added to
> that? (This goes for anyone else reading this message too. If you want
> your site linked, please send me an email.

I gladly would, except that I'm running it for internal use on a 
WAN/Intranet where there is nothing to link to from the Internet.  If 
you had a spot for "testimonials" on your site I'd put my .02 in there.

- Nathan

Hi,

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:09:43 -0800, Nathan Barham <na...@sl...> wrote:
> Many thanks to Sean for php-calendar.  I recently installed version
> 0.10.1.  Clean, simple to use, and just what I needed.  A very nice tool.

Thank you.

> I noticed two things:
> 
> 1.  On install I accepted the default for the table name prefix (phpc_)
> but the uid table does not get the prefix. If I had been adding these to
> an existing database it seems a likely conflict with a pre-existing table.

Thanks for the heads up on that. This is fixed in CVS and will be
fixed in the next version, but may cause some problems with upgrading.

> 2.  A very small thing.  When adding a new event to the calendar there
> is a drop down box for selecting AM or PM.  It seems counter intuitive
> to me that PM is selected by default, since AM comes before PM.  I've
> had a couple of users make the mistake of scheduling an event late at
> night by assuming that AM is the default.

It defaults to whatever time the event you're editing is or 6PM. Maybe
there's a better default time. That's just the one I picked.

> Thanks again.  We are already getting a lot of use out of this program.

I'm glad to hear it. I would like to start a list of sites using the
calendar to post on the website. Would you like yours to be added to
that? (This goes for anyone else reading this message too. If you want
your site linked, please send me an email. I'm going to put a note on
the website.)

Regards,
Sean

Many thanks to Sean for php-calendar.  I recently installed version 
0.10.1.  Clean, simple to use, and just what I needed.  A very nice tool.

I noticed two things:

1.  On install I accepted the default for the table name prefix (phpc_) 
but the uid table does not get the prefix. If I had been adding these to 
an existing database it seems a likely conflict with a pre-existing table.

mysql> show tables;
+--------------------+
| Tables_in_calendar |
+--------------------+
| phpc_calendars     |
| phpc_events        |
| phpc_sequence      |
| phpc_users         |
| uid                |
+--------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

2.  A very small thing.  When adding a new event to the calendar there 
is a drop down box for selecting AM or PM.  It seems counter intuitive 
to me that PM is selected by default, since AM comes before PM.  I've 
had a couple of users make the mistake of scheduling an event late at 
night by assuming that AM is the default.

Thanks again.  We are already getting a lot of use out of this program.

-Nathan

I found what appears to be a bug in the search.php.  When attempting to 
search with multiple terms it fails.  Starting at line 38 in search.php I 
replaced this:

         foreach($keywords as $keyword) {
                 $where .= "subject LIKE '%$keyword%' "
                         ."OR description LIKE '%$keyword%'\n";
         }

with this:

 	foreach($keywords as $keyword) {
 		$where .= "(subject LIKE '%$keyword%' "
 			."OR description LIKE '%$keyword%') AND ";
 	}

 	$where = rtrim($where,"AND ");

Just trying to help.

Thanks,

Barrett
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Fiver Computing Corporation
http://www.fivercomputing.com
(781)405-4686

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