Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] iCalendar based content management

[Wesley M. <we...@we...>]

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Hi Ben,

Yes, I think you could pull out the PHP iCalendar parser and use it for 
your own purposes. Although if you want to be able to generate pages 
first and publish the pages, rather than publishing the calendars and 
generating the pages later, PHP may not be your best option.

Anyway, if you look through the source, you should be able to identify 
a calendar object and the parsing code. You should be able to use the 
parsing code to generate your own calendar object, and then do whatever 
you want with the calendar object to generate your web pages.

Good luck.

On Dec 13, 2004, at 1:52 AM, Ben Francis wrote:

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