website question

[sheerdark]

Hello once again all,

I have a question. I want to make an event calendar for my website, kinda like this one:
Calendar Sample
Does anyone know how that event calendar was made and if so, how can I do something like that?

Thanks,

Matt

[FlyingPenguin]

Some kind of script - either Java or CGI, or if it's really fancy it's done in ASP and it's stored in an SQL database.

Relatively heavy programming either way.

One simple way to make one is using Lotus Organizer. It has a feature that generates a web-based calendar from it's appointment organizer. I use is so I can check my appointments from a client's office. It's setup to upload the appointment calendar every night.

You don't have much control over how it looks though - it's a pre-defined template.

If you're intent on writing one yourself, a relatively easy way is to use the FlatText CGI database script generator. I've used it on a lot of my sites: http://www.flattext.com/

They have both an ASCII based database script which is all I've ever used for simplicity, and they also have a simple SQL database generator.

[Busby]

That site is done in ASP from the looks of the links to other things. Dunno if they have a backend db or not but they use ASP. FP probably has the right idea unless you want to fool around with PHP or ASP or SQL of some sorts.

[sheerdark]

Thanks for the replies, they were very helpful in coming to the realization that I don't want to go through all that for a calendar. I found a program that will make the calendars for me in a google search for event calendar and I think I will just suck it up and purchase that one. I got the demo, and it seems to be relatively nice and cheaper than some of the others. If it were for me and I would be the one updating it, I would probably program it myself with a few tutorials, but since it is not for me, I would be hesitant to guarantee someone else it would work flawlessly, and also I doubt anyone there could update it themselves.

Thanks again,

Matt