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

oh my lord... rangersfan you're the best - members love nothing more than to be noticed and loved and what better way then remember their birthdays (if they put a correct date in the first place)

i am interested, although i am gonna wait until i move servers before i add hacks again.

YES!

The girls on my board would love this! Right now I'm using the Calendar by Matt Kruse (sp?) -- and its being a pain in the a$$ right now -- for no reason...

I need a change of pace....

Please release!!

Wow! great stuff

Any chance you might turn it into a fully fledged date planner for our users ?

rockergrrl please send me a link to the calender you are using so I can see what it does.

Hey RangersFan...

The script is programmed in Perl (not PHP), and its located at: http://mkruse.netexpress.net/scripts/calendar/

I haven't been able to get barely any PHP Calendars to work right. I hate having to use phpmyadmin to install tables in mySQL... BAH! hehe

Can you make it easy for lil ol be who doesn't have access to shell?? hehe

rockergrrl

Thanks rockerrgrl that calendar script gives me lots of ideas to work on. I suppose I will try to turn it into a full calendar with stuff like this:

• Show User's Birthdays (user can choose to not display their birthday and user can choose not to see others birthdays when viewing calendar)
• Allow users to add events to the calender but they will be the only user who can see them.
• Allow Mods/Admins to add events to the calender and they choose if it is a public event (everyone will see it) or just for themself.
• Make the current day highlighted on the calendar
• Try to make as much of it as possible in templates but templatizing is the LEAST fun part of making hacks.

Any more ideas?

Rockrrgrl it will require a new table in the database along with possibly a new field in the user table for the birthdate.

just wondering if it can be done in a standalone php file(s) like the buddy list ?

It is a stand alone file right now. You would have to modify member.php if you wanted the birthdays as it makes sense to allow the user to set their birthday in the profile, not in the calendar. Hopefully it will be nice enough that John would include it in a future release as it would go further in enhancing the "community" aspect of vBulletin.

I don't want a full scale date planner, but if Moderators and Administrators could add events to the calendar it would be great. Would specially work in with trying to have Scheduled chats on sites with chat installed.