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I’ve just redesigned our blog, and the sort of approach we both have with designs currently is very similar, it’s quite amusing.

Calendar Helper: /app/views/helpers/calendar.php
Calendar View: /app/views/calendar.php
Event Model: /app/models/event.php
Calendar Controller: /cakebox/app/controllers/events_controller.php

When I go to /events/calendar in my browser I get the following error:
Class ‘Event’ not found in /home/httpd/html/cake/libs/class_registry.php

If you have any advice or insights they would be appreciated. Thanks!

Calendar Controller: /cakebox/app/controllers/events_controller.php looks a bit weird - the cakebox part of the address - I am guessing though that this is just your development directory and you edited all the other paths for clarity.

When something goes wrong I always firstly check for Typos, then clear the app/tmp/cache/models

Also what debug level have you got set in core/config.php ?

Other than that I’m not sure - but I will have a think about it. I’ll also try and zip up all the files as a working download over the next few days.

Hope this helps.

I wrote a DateHelper and CalendarHelper 2 years ago specifically for cake, which is of course dearly in need of a refactoring, that does a lot of what you plan on adding.

I’m going to dive in this week on it, as I need an international calendar for a project. Feel like merging resources?

Love it, well done!

Thanks for getting in touch - potentially I am definitely up for joining forces, but I am am really snowed under at the moment and wouldn’t be able to contribute that much at the moment.

I’ve been giving it a lot of thought though recently and have decided that I want in this kind of direction - how does this tie in with your ideas?

I want to extend the helper so you can specify how many calendars you want to show at a time - so you could show say 12 little calendars one for each month or 1 or 4 or whatever - I quite like some of the things you can do with Yahoo YUI, just not the implementation - and I have thought of this very much in terms of a server rather than client side thing.

The main change from that would be the input data array would have to change from a just an array with key 0-31 to a more complex array probably [year][month][day]

I thought it would be good to hive off all the code for checking the validity of a month (from the url) into a component and also functions for generating the data array, so you have a very clean controller.

Then integrating built in AJAX support for scrolling back and forth between calendar months that you can toggle on / off.

I’m still uming and ahhhing about whether to leave the actual content for a given day as just a container where people can put what they want into it….

On the internationalisation front - especially in Cake 1.2 shouldn’t be that hard should it ? (not that I’ve ever had call to do any) - the main thing would just be the elements in month names array…

Cheers

BTW - I think the first thing I’m going to do is add support for multiple calendars.

I just add the possibility to check if an event is private or public so you can both have a public or private events.
Add a ‘private’ field in your events table : TINYINT (NOT NULL,0)
And in your event controller :

$fields = array(’id’, ‘name’, ‘DAY(event_date) AS event_day’,'private’);

$varPublic = $this->Event->findAll(’MONTH(Event.event_date) = ‘ . $month_num . ‘ AND YEAR(Event.event_date) = ‘ . $year . ‘ AND (private=0)’, $fields, ‘Event.event_date ASC’);
$varPrivate = $this->Event->findAll(’MONTH(Event.event_date) = ‘ . $month_num . ‘ AND YEAR(Event.event_date) = ‘ . $year . ‘ AND (private=1 OR private=0)’, $fields, ‘Event.event_date ASC’);

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Check if a session exist or not :
if (!$this->Session->check(’User’)) {$check = $varPublic;} else {$check = $varPrivate;}

I would 1st like to say I really enjoyed your helper! I also wanted to let you knw i’ve converted the calendar to work 100% in Ajax form, you can switch months via ‘Ajax’, you can view an event in a ‘pop-up modal’ and even click edit in there and edit in a different modal. Once i have it on the internet I can share it you. Well thank you very much for such a nice calnendar!

-Ron

For the record I’m now firmly in the jQuery camp, I use it almost every day, it makes the little things so much easier. Giod it makes me shudder when I think of the hoops I used to jump through only a couple of years ago… thinking in particular of a car booking system I wrote about 2 1/2 years ago for a car share club - looping through a table with every hour for an entire week and adding event listeners to watch for clicks… hundreds of lines of javascript and all that browser forking code - in jQuery the whole thing would probably be 10 lines.

p.s. any links back to the site greatly appreciated.

Sorry the $base_url is a kind of orphan from the previous version - in some ways it should have been re factored out but I left in because I thought I might end up needing it so I just left a comment in there.

All the file are in the right folders. What’ s the matter?

This looks like a great solution to my problem, but I’m new to cakePHP and I was wondering what you meant when you said “slot it into place” as far as installing the app is concerned.

Thanks,
Brian

I would say download the example and get it running as a first step. I just checked and the vesion it uses is 1.2.0.6311 beta - so I would initially try installing it on a test server like that.

However thanks for pointing out the error - I’ll look at this and update the example to run on RC3.

I thought I’d mention that I liked your calendar helper, but needed something slightly different, so I modified your helper so that it now can also generate a weekly hour by hour calendar. My version of the helper now has two methods, “month” (your “calendar” method, renamed), and “week”.

The week method generates a weekly view, and you can specify the day, month, and year, and it will display the week that it falls on starting on monday. The week method also takes min_hour and max_hour which lets you specify which hours to display (for most applications, you wont need to show the entire day, for instance, you can set it to display 9:00 - 17:00, the typical workday). The data array is specified like this $data[day][hour] so that you can place an event on any given hour of any given day.

The mod was surprisingly simple, and doesnt really change much else. It even uses the same CSS file with no modifications.

John, please contact me by email if you’d like the source to post on your website.

– Mark Roy