Calendar Hack

I have worked up a calendar hack at http://www.hedgehogwheels.com/forums/calendar.php

I am going to add a birthday option to the user profile and have the birthdays (of those who choose to set their birthday) shown on the calendar.

Anyone interested?

and don't ask me to turn it into a full-fledged date planner for your users cause I won't do it!

or maybe I will but I will have to think about the time that would take YUCK

Rangersfan, any chance whatsoever you can extend the calendar so individual users can have their own calendars too? (Yes I saw your original post saying you wouldn't)

By allowing users to post private events = their own calendar. They only see their events and any posted as public by an admin/mod/person given right to post public events.

Sounds good!

I'm working on it so you can follow it's progress on my forum. I am doing the coding on my live forum so you can see where I am at in the process at any time. Feel free to give me ideas/pointers at any time.

http://www.hedgehogwheels.com/forums/calendar.php

[Edited by rangersfan on 10-27-2000 at 05:18 PM]

2 ideas worth exploring:

1) Event reminders via email.

2) Repeating events (example: per week, per month, per year).

I am very new to VB -- just installed it yesterday, but am having a great time playing with the hacks. I love the calendar -- it's my favorite so far! I personally would love to see a user be able to post an event publicly. In my case, I'll have lots of pregnant women in there, and would like for them to have the ability to post their due dates or baby's birth date.

I suppose a way around this would be for the moderator to post the dates instead, which really wouldn't be a problem.

Would it be possible for certain events to only be posted in a particular forum? The possibilities seem endless!

Great work! Actually, I'm very impressed with everyone here -- which is the main reason I chose to purchase VB as opposed to you-know-who! I'm *loving* it!

I can make a CP option where you can allow anyone to post a public event.

I am also leaning toward waiting until 2.0.0 is released so I can make any needed changes to this then instead of releasing it for 1.1.4 then having to update it for 2.0.0

That would be wonderful! I didn't realize an updated version was coming out -- I must have missed that. Do you know when that is scheduled for? Hmmm, perhaps I should follow everyone's lead and hold off on any more hacks until then.

btw -- it just goes to show that posting to BBs is a very effective means of advertising. I happen to have a houseful of chins, so not only was I checking out Chins and Quills for BB ideas, I spent quite a bit of time reading the posts (too much as a matter of fact!)

Thanks again!

The hack is nearing completion - just need to put in alot of control panel options setting who can do what and some other minor things like deleting an event.

I'm anxiously awaiting!