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#13 2005-09-23 01:21:19
- nardo
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- From: tuvalahiti
- Registered: 2004-04-22
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Re: Good event calendar
by the by, apart from future articles not showing in feeds, future articles don’t show in searches either — but it’s easy to hack that (must be, cos I managed it)
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Re: Good event calendar
Hi everyone,
I’m also interrested by a calendar in TXP.
As I work on Mac, I would be interrested by a stuff close to iCal from Apple.
I found this calendar, PHP iCalendar, which is really fine. Is it a way to integrate it in TXP instead of installing it on a subdomain?
Cheers
Vincent.
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Re: Good event calendar
Just to throw in some thoughts …
I am using an external web calendar application from airset.com and publish it on my site via iframe. Interesting with this solution is that you can subscribe to external iCal or other public AirSet calendars. The dates will be integrated into your calendar.
Another aspect is that you can maintain your calendar data with a local Palm Desktop or MS Outlook. It would also be no problem to publish an iCal calendar and subscribe to it.
Right now I am experiencing the iframe to be very slow with Firefox2. No idea why.
AirSet also gives the possibility to subscribe via different RSS feeds. This way you can publish the calendar with an Textpattern RSS parser on your site. This will also solve the problem of past events which will vanish with the ongoing events.
Another wide spreading topic are microformats. One format is hCalendar (which is pretty much related to iCal). Check out the microformats.org wiki: hCalendar where you will also find a lot of examples.
I would either fill an article form through custom fields or use an external editor/database to create the article/vent/hCalendar source code.
BTW to integrate PHP iCalendar into Textpattern might be easy via the txp:php tag which allows you to insert raw PHP into page or article forms. Just check the tag documentation. I did not look too deep into the PHP iCalendar possibilities …
Question: Maybe someone else has good experiences with integrating external calendar applications into Textpattern?
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