availability calendar

[pagetta]

Hi I am making a website for a spanish villa and the owner wants a calendar on the site where he can update available dates on a weekly basis. Can anyone suggest anything? (free!) I've never done anything like this before but it needs to be fairly simple as I'm doing this site as a favour don't really want to spend hours poring over it, plus needs to be easy to update as he's not very computer friendly!
Thanks

[sands]

Check out: http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...pts/Calendars/
Might find something there. Also most are free.

[kgun]

Originally Posted by sands

Check out: http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...pts/Calendars/
Might find something there. Also most are free.

That resource should be good enough.

Only to reccomend, I adviced you to buy the three sitepoint books. If you did that and downloaded the code archieves some time ago there are an error in the calendar classes that you should be aware of. But if you download the last version of the library, that is available if you bought the books, the errors are fixed.

Here are the link explaining the error:

Harry Fuecks Calender code gives an error

If you bought those books, it is important to follow Yank's and Fuecks threads on the forum and look for updates of the code archives.

Here, PHP ANTHOLOGY Book 2 -> Chapter 2 : Access Control 6.php is another important thread where you find both Fucks and Yanks nick. That thread explains how the SPLIB librarys are updated to fit to updated versions of PEAR.

That is a very important service. I used the original code library and got problems. Once I downloaded the updated SPLIB library, the problems were fixed. You always have those problems with updates.

One advantage of following Fuecks threads, is that I think that he updates himself on the developement of PHP. That is very important. Look at some related threads (e.g. the last session thread in this forum) and you know why.

If you did not buy the books and do not use the code archive, ignore my post.

[DrTandem1]

Yes, there are a lot of these on the internet. Best of all, the client can weasily maintain them. Here's one I used for a client:

http://www.availcheck.com/

They seem to like it.

[tcustomgolf]

pagetta

I use VCalendar. Did not see it on the link suggested above. It runs under PHP/SQL, etc. Did some research and it seems to be flexible enough for my use, pretty easy to implement and have users keep up to date.

I have it running for personal matters. If you would like to see it in action, shoot me a note!

Located on sourceforge here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualcalendar

[DCnotPC]

Hey... something that I can answer! I have an even easier answer, but it makes me worry if maybe I'm cheating!
I use Yahoo calendars for my band booster site and radio station calendar of events. You need to create a group on Yahoo and then link from your web site to the calendar.
Examples are at www.wfnt.com and http://dragonband.cheapsalsa.com

Hope that helps! It has worked great for me. It is easy to teach people how to update the calendar on their own.

Good luck!
Dave

[Hal in Texas]

I have used dozens of Powell-Graphics.com availability calendars over the years and was very happy with them. They are the most attractive calendars that I have ever found and they are the easiest to install.

They design a calendar page that matches your web site and host the page. All you have to do is put a link to the calendar web page on your site to get it installed. You can easily add it in less than 5 minutes. No special code to worry about.

Their calendars are not free though. They charge $20 per year, but is worth every penny. Your client will be very pleased with the appearance and ease of use.

[holmpage]

For an off-site calendar, check out www.rentors.org. It's available to those who list their rental homes on several of the biggest vacation rental sites - from which my clients in that business get most of their traffic. Super simple and free.

[jimkelly7777]

Hello Pagetta, I hope you are well. You would probably want to use JavaScript, as the most of the others suggest.

Here's a link that may be helpful to you, lass.

http://www.bigwebmaster.com/JavaScri...ams/Calendars/

[kgun]

The two first answers suggest PHP.

Personal advice:

• Minimize the use of client side scripts, since they are dependent on the users browser.
• Especially when it comes to authentication systems.

[wpriley]

As suggested above, I use www.rentors.org on several sites. Unlike many of the above suggestions, this calendar is designed only to show the property as available or booked. Easy to understand and easy for non-sophisticated clients to maintain.

[dharrison]

Hi Pagetta

As Dr Tandem said, Availcheck ( http://www.availcheck.com ) is a handy free calendar and is also very user-friendly, so your customer can update the calendar themselves.

My customer at http://www.villatorentflorida.com/index.shtml has a working example available at http://www.availcheck.com/cgi-bin/ca...&showyear=2006

Hope this helps.

[janskov]

I have used rentcalendar.com for two years now.
Easy to maintain and integrate and free.

[noel_x99]

Google has a tool allowing you to share your calendar. They even lead you throught making the HTML so you can put it on your page.

[Clay Martin]

We have used Webcalendar for a number of clients. http://www.k5n.us/index.php It is easy to do basic customization (colors etc.) without touching the php code and fairly easy to do more extensive customizations by changing the php code or templates.

HTH,
Clay

[pagetta]

Hey
thanks for your responses - At the moment it looks like availcheck may be a winner it is so easy thank you!