Web Calendar Recommendation?
Sep 16

Web Calendar Recommendation?

Much like my selfish use of this space to ask for a GMail invite, I’m now asking for a software recommendation.

I’m building a Web site for our local Christian school, and we need a Web calendar. I’m not going to roll my own, so we’re looking for open-source or we’re even will to pay for a good script.

General requirements:

  • purely Web-based, obviously
  • unlimited multiple sub-calendars
  • the ability to roll up sub-calendars to a “master calendar”
  • PHP or Perl (PHP preferably, but anything Linux-ish would be possible…except Java. No Java, please.)
  • MySQL backend
  • very template-friendly (we want to hack up the display quite a bit)
  • multiple users and permissions (Bob can post to Calendar A, but not Calendar B; Mary can post anywhere)
  • iCal integration would be nice.

Again, we’re willing to pay for something if it’s good. I’ve been to all the script sites and looked around, but I’m looking for personal recommendations because you folks tend to be pretty smart.

Any suggestions of things you’ve worked with in the past?

by Deane   September 16, 2004 10:56 AM   |

Comments

by Dave,   September 16, 2004 11:23 AM  

Try Boss Dates. I'm currently hacking it up so that it works with Oracle. I'm not sure of the template ability yet as I have not gotten into it yet, but It's a pretty nice piece of software. www.bosdev.com

by Matt,   September 16, 2004 11:46 AM  

Those are some pretty stout requirements. Make sure you make an entry when (and if) you finally come up with something that meets your requirements.

by jonese,   September 16, 2004 12:28 PM  

be sure to publish which one you choose!

by Austin,   September 16, 2004 3:28 PM  

We are creating a Calendar system right now using OS software so that users of our site can just drop javascript into their blog to show their Calendar(s). It will have everything you describe except for ICAL support. I am interested in what other features people find important.

by Peter Rombouts,   September 16, 2004 6:13 PM  

For my iCal, i'm using http://phpicalendar.net/forums/ Here you can upload your iCal's calendar so it's displayed on the web, but there's no interaction with the calendar. Maybe in future updates it will be possible.

by ggg,   September 16, 2004 6:28 PM  

You'll want to check out Webcalendar ( http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/ )- I'm not sure what "the ability to roll up sub-calendars to a 'master calendar'" means, but it's got everything else. I use it extensively to coordinate with my family members and it works quite well.

by Greg Taunt,   September 16, 2004 10:55 PM  

Try http://www.planscalendar.com. Excellent tool and freeware!

by Philipp Lenssen,   September 17, 2004 3:38 AM  

I wrote PHP-based Quickdat; it's an all purpose information storage thingie (and doesn't even need MySQL -- I wrote it at a time when my server didn't offer MySQL): http://outer-court.com/tech/quickdat.html

Of course it's free and open.

by drmthtr,   September 17, 2004 7:45 AM  

http://www.calendarix.com/

by Adam Kalsey,   September 23, 2004 11:39 AM  

I'm a bit late to the party, but check out WebCalendar on sourceforge.

by Adam Kalsey,   September 23, 2004 11:42 AM  

Weird. When I first looked at this entry a minute ago, only the first three comments showed up. I posted my comment and then I saw all of the other comments.

by Macattack,   April 28, 2005 7:26 AM  

ACal is definitely the best. Do a google Search. It is free!

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