Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Re: Calendar or To Do with reminder or alarm?

[p d. t. <pdo...@an...>]

> I have written a calendar program because none of the others have the two
> features I need:
> 
> 1. Automatic advance reminders. When this option is selected an advance
> reminder is added to the calendar which comes up 1yr, 6mo, 3mo, and 2wks
> before the event. e.g. 6 months before the event the calendar has an
> entry, colored blue: "6mo: xxx lease expiries".
> This is very useful if you have leases, mortgages or other items of which
> you need advance warnings in order to be ready to deal with them. The code
> checks to see if the reminder date has passed, if not it adds the advance
> reminder to the database.
> 
> If the event is an annual event, the advance reminder is 1mo and 2 wks, as
> usually these are things like birthdays, and you need to know your mothers
> birthday BEFORE it happens, but shorter periods are enough.
> 
> I have this written in PHP3, but I am not a programmer so the code
> doubtless sucks, none-the-less it works with the latest PHP and if anyone
> wants the code I would be pleased to provide it. (The base calendar I use
> is gcal, but I suppose the one you do should be written in iCal format.)
> 
> 2. Alarm. I have each days events sent me as an SMS message at 7:00 am.
> This gives me an alarm sound as well as a list of my appointments. The
> text needs to be kept as short as possible to avoid blowing over the SMS
> text limit, but I find it very useful. I could not figure out how to do
> this in PHP, as it had no cron functions at the time I wrote my calendar,
> so it is just a shell script which runs on my Linux server.
> 
> This functionality should be extended to send an SMS xxx minutes before
> the event if so set. Again, I think it is more useful to send an SMS than
> an email because you always have your phone with you and many phones can
> be programmed to give you a distinct ring.
> 
> If these are Incorporated into the proposed new calendar they will be
> features which are useful and unique to the SquirrelMail calendar instead
> of just copying features of other calendars.
> 
> 3. Webcalng is a the best calendar I have seen, very full featured
> although it does neither of the things mentioned above.
> 
> see http://www.webcalng.com/
> 
> It is written in PHP and can be integrated into SquirrelMail, but it is
> not free.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> ivan

Ivan,

   Feel free to forward your code for review and ideas as the new 
version is put together.  Thanks much!

  - Paul