pheights event calendar

anonymous

How about having a few people dedicated to updating the calendar so it is not totally useless? It's just data entry.

If you want help, I can aggregate event information around the area and update the calendar.

dailyheights

Hmm... I appreciate you volunteering to aggregate info on area events. However, the whole idea of the calendar was to avoid that. The idea was to have a calendar that anybody can update, so nobody has to take time and aggregate event data.

But as I pointed out... It hasn't really taken off, has it? I still wish there was a calendar, somewhere, that listed all neighborhood events (or at least the majority of them), but to date, our calendar hasn't been the one.

That said, I definitely encourage you to aggregate event info and post it to the calendar, since that will encourage others to do the same.

carnivore

FYI, in case it's not totally obvious:
In order to post, you have to log in to the calendar as dailyheights with the password already there. The system doesn't recognize the user id/password you use to log in to the message board.

anonymous

Subject: harder

than I thought. I was going to try plugging in some of the Brooklyn Museum/Library events to test out the calendar, but it was tedious using the web interface provided. I tried repeating a calendar event, but it didn't like that...

dailyheights

Yep, the calendar pretty much sucks! Sorry about that. I'm open to suggestions if anybody knows a better calendar system. The reason why I like RSS calendar is because you can easily create one of those "upcoming events" tickers that you see on the right side of the page (back on the blog).

anonymous

dailyheights wrote: Yep, the calendar pretty much sucks! Sorry about that. I'm open to suggestions if anybody knows a better calendar system. The reason why I like RSS calendar is because you can easily create one of those "upcoming events" tickers that you see on the right side of the page (back on the blog).

Simpler would probably be better, since most people posting will just be cutting and pasting text into a form. I think most people using the calendar system will be smart enough to follow an entry convention, such as using 24h time and preceding each posting with a START_TIME - END_TIME so that viewers will see each event in chronological order...

I'll shall look around for another system and let you know...

anonymous

Subject: better calendar system (ascending order)

1. Plans: http://www.planscalendar.com/index.php
2. K5N's Webcalendar: http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php
3. PHP Calendar: http://php-calendar.sourceforge.net/

I would say Plans is the nicest one. Each of those sites has a
demo, as well.

dailyheights

Hmm... I installed Plans here if you want to play around with it:

http://www.dailyheights.com/plans/plans.cgi

The password to enter events (or delete the calendar entirely, if you feel like being a jerk) is 1111.

The password thing is a problem. You need a password to enter an event, but as far as I can tell, anybody with the password can simply delete the entire calendar, either mistakenly or maliciously. I may be wrong.

carnivore

I think that will be a problem with any system unless there's something with tiered privileges (i.e. anyone can post but only the admin can delete).
You could use yahoo calendar too, but it has the same flaw. Another thing a malicious interloper could do with any of these systems is change the password and lock the admin out.

anonymous

Subject: not good

I may play w/ plans this weekend and let you know if there is a way to allow anyone to post/delete without giving them "delete calendar" privs...

daniel

You could always just open up the HTML template and remove the "Delete Calendar" button. People would still be able to delete the calendar, but it would at least raise the bar and require a bit of hacking to do so.

anonymous

daniel wrote: You could always just open up the HTML template and remove the "Delete Calendar" button. People would still be able to delete the calendar, but it would at least raise the bar and require a bit of hacking to do so.

Even better, trace the post action that gets executed for that button. If it's in another php script file, just copy and rename the file, then take the original and null it out...

[looking at code now...]

Take a look at the code starting at line 2066 in plans.cgi. The scripts checks to see if the user submitted a delete calendar action. If so, it goes through and deletes events associated with the calendar, then the calendar itself, and then any dangling references to that deleted calendar.

You may be able to gut this block of code. BTW, the code ain't purty, but it is still somewhat readable...