[PHPiCalendar-DEV] iCalendar based content management

[Ben F. <li...@hi...>]

Hi all,

I'm interested in developing a kind of simple content management system
based on iCalendar data (to be GPLed if anything decent comes of it).

The ultimate aim is to generate web pages from .ics files which will be
published to a web server via webdav. This will allow a non-technical
user to keep a calender of events (in this case exhibitions at a
public art gallery and events at a theatre) using an iCalendar client
such as iCal or Mozilla Calendar and publish them to the web, with no
knowledge of web development or FTP.

However, instead of (or as well as) the calendar view which is currently
available using phpicalendar, there would be set of web pages with
information about the events. There will be a front page which
automagically displays current events or events in the near future with
a title, subtitle, date from and to (eg. "15 October - 30 October 2004")
or one date for one day events, times, description, link for "more info"
and potentially a picture. Underneath would be a list of future events
with links for more info. The page would look a little like this
http://www.catmosearts.co.uk/xindex.htm (this page may disappear!)

I'm also interested in somehow integrating this project with the Gallery
  project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery/) to display a
gallery of images related to each past event.

I've spent some time reading the iCalendar RFC and trying to understand
the phpicalendar parser, but it's a bit beyond me to be honest. I do
have PHP programming experience, but nothing on this scale.

I'm basically asking if anyone thinks the phpicalendar parser could be
adapted for my needs and if anyone could give me some pointers of where
to start!

Many Thanks

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Ben "tola" Francis            http://hippygeek.co.uk
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