[PHPiCalendar-DEV] Re: Phpicalendar-devel digest, Vol 1 #209 - 1 msg

[Jim Hu <ji...@ta...>]

Chad. the head guy, but here's my take - editing the events is 
something that people often ask for.  However, since phpicalendar is 
designed to display/share events edited by users on their desktops 
using calendars like Apple's iCal, Mozilla calendar, etc, this creates 
a problem with synchronizing the calendar back to the calendar owner.  
So I'd be opposed to including it in the main distribution unless it 
could either solve this problem, or make it optional somehow.  This 
would only be useful to me if it could be done in a way that retained a 
user's ability to subscribe to the calendars using iCal or its 
equivalent.

That said, I have only looked briefly at the sourceforge page for EGS, 
so I'm not sure what you are doing exactly, but it seems to me that if 
your events are in files that follow the iCalendar standard, then you 
should be able to use phpicalendar with minimal modifications.  I can 
imagine an alternative method where you would use a database-driven 
script to manipulate the cached master arrays directly...I think that's 
what phpMyCal does (http://dev.neb.net/phpMyCal/).  In that case, I 
think you could make your changes by bypassing the parser.  This would 
have the advantage of being faster - I think parsing is the slow step 
in getting a display.  IMHO, event.php wouldn't be the place to work - 
that only handles the popup event boxes.

A number of users have also asked for the ability to display only 
subsets of calendars.  This could be done (I've been meaning to take a 
crack at it, but haven't had time) by a variety of methods, but the 
slow step is parsing again.  The master array has to be regenerated for 
every combination of calendars used, which eliminates the advantage 
provided by caching the master array...so it would either be slow, or 
the server gets filled with massive numbers of cache files.  This would 
still be worth it for some users.

Jim Hu

On Apr 10, 2005, at 10:16 PM, 
php...@li... wrote:
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:47:13 +0100
> From: Jake Stride <ns...@us...>
> To:  php...@li...
> Subject: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] event.php
> Reply-To: php...@li...
>
> Hi,
>
> I am the lead developer of EGS, another web-based project hosted on
> sourceforge, we have had phpicalendar integrated into our system for
> some time now. Users can add/edit/delete events etc using phpicalendar
> as the base to display them. However to do this we had to do some 
> fairly
> major changes to the code to put in the links to allow editing etc and
> as a result it makes keeping in sync with phpicalendar a bit of a 
> mission.
>
> We were wondering if it would be possible to pass the UID of each event
> through to the event.php script so that we can then keep all of our
> modifications in this script alone and use the UID to update 
> everything.
>
> If we coded this change would it be likely to be included in the main
> distribution?
>
> Also has anyone thought about changing the calendar select box to a
> multiple select so that you could make a select of several calendars to
> view, i.e more than one but not all or one?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jake
>
>
>
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