0.10.2 released

Well, this is my first news post. I figure I should give some history. PHP-Calendar was originally started after I couldn't contact the developer from CST-Calendar. I need to give some thanks to him. I can no longer even find the page that had the source to CST-Calendar. If anyone knows where it is, please email me at sproctor@gmail.com. I was looking for a calendar for a student group that I was in at the time. We were using localendar.com and I wanted something that fit in better with our web site and also without a password, so we wouldn't have to worry about one person in the group changing the password or all of us constantly forgetting the password. So PHP-Calendar was born as a cleaned up version of CST-Calendar. Over the next few releases I rewrote every part of the calendar to add more features. I was trying to get it on par with localendar.com. Eventually I left that student group and so no longer had much use for the calendar. I have only maintained it because I've been motivated by people sending in emails with problems and suggestions.

So, 0.10.2 is released. 2 problems that have been reported numerous times have been fixed. They are the time got set incorrectly on the modification form, and the duration hour was a fractional hour and also displayed the minutes. The biggest change since 0.10.1 is that ADOdb is no longer shipped with this release. You need to make sure that you have ADOdb 4.62 (which was release 2005-04-02) or later installed. My changes were accepted into the main package, so I no longer need to distribute a modified version.

Anyone using Mambo may be interested in some work done by Leslie Tsang named PHPCBridge. You can it on his experimental website at http://mambo.leslietsang.com/ Thanks, Leslie.

The next version will contain some major changes, unless I find significantly major bugs in the current version to warrant releasing a 0.10.3. The main changes will be a change to how events are stored in the database to allow them to be more flexible, hooks to allow PHP-Calendar to be easily embedded in other sites, and change the internal XHTML representation to a class structure rather than arrays. Possibly in the next release, but planned for some release are labels for events to give extra style to the event or other meta information, and the ability to add comments to events.