Ask a Jedi: ColdFusion Calendar

I've mentioned before that I'm going to, on an occasional basis, post questions where I don't have a great answer. That is because I have a wonderful audience and I know they can help out. As before, if this bugs people, let me know.

Joel wants to know about ColdFusion Calendars:

Do you know of any good coldfusion-based calendars? We currently have a solution, but the company we purchased it from has since gone under.

I am not aware of one. I wrote an entry on how to build one in ColdFusion. I also released GoogleCalendar.cfc, which lets you integrate with the new Google Calendar service. But again - I am not aware of a "Calendar" product for ColdFusion.

The first place I checked was Brian's wonder ColdFusion Open Source Project List. There I found:

i18n calendars
[A] set of CFCs that use icu4j java library to handle non-gregorian calendars. these CFC know islamic, buddhist, chinese, japanese emperor, hebrew, persian, coptic, ethopian and persian (via dr. ghasem kiani's library) calendars.

But that was the only thing close. So - time for the audience to help out. Also do not forget that ColdFusion can generate a calendar automatically inside forms in CFMX7.

Comments (16) Jun 2, 2006 9:12 AM Views: 10000

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Here is a list of CF calendars at HotScripts.com:
http://www.hotscripts.com/CFML/Scripts_and_Program...
# Posted By Kyle Hayes | 6/2/06 9:23 AM
This isn't exactly an answer, but a suggestion. Many many moons ago I wrote a calendar app for fusebox. I read in books now it was the first app for fusebox. Anyway, I haven't kept up with fusebox or the app. Someone (Jeff Peters?) upgraded it to FB 3 a bit ago. Someone should pick it back up and bring it to the latest FB standards maybe port to other frameworks? As it is now I don't know that I would recommend it as THE CF Calendar. I honestly don't know what was done when it was taken to FB 3. But perhaps someone would opt to make it so?

I would volunteer, but at the moment am too busy to pick up that flag and run with it.

http://www.grokfusebox.com/index.cfm?ref=showGoodi... is a link to the last known file for the calendar.
# Posted By Joshu Cyr | 6/2/06 9:33 AM
About a year and a half ago I wrote a calendar API and made it publicly available. You can read more about it (and download it) at http://www.horwith.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&en...
# Posted By Simon Horwith | 6/2/06 9:47 AM
I have used this program: http://www.bensonitsolutions.com/calendar/v4/ It works pretty good.
# Posted By Chris | 6/2/06 10:35 AM
A while back I developed a database driven event calendar that works fairly well. It includes an admin section for data entry and a calendar display. You can see an example of it in action at http://www.thedinnercompany.com/schedule.cfm (btw Tony Weeg did a nice site for this company).

If interested you can download it at http://www.lyonsmorris.com/test/calendar.zip

regards,
larry
# Posted By Larry C. Lyons | 6/2/06 10:49 AM
Ray, thanks for the link. Based on my knowledge, the few CMS systems on the list have calendar management built in (for instance FarCry has an content type of events and can format the output in calendar form). I am not yet aware of a free standalone calendar application.
# Posted By Brian Rinaldi | 6/2/06 10:49 AM
ray, those i18n calendars are really for handling date math and displays across different locales/calendar systems rather than a calendar/event system.
# Posted By PaulH | 6/2/06 2:11 PM
Sorry about that, Paul!
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 6/2/06 2:27 PM
..any publicity...
# Posted By PaulH | 6/2/06 2:53 PM
For every calendar that I've written, I've used Forta's example from his CF-WACK book. It's in the section on how to use the CFMODULE command.
# Posted By Nick Kwiatkowski | 6/3/06 5:18 PM
Hi Ray, I am not sure if you are developing your google calendar reader further but you can now post entries to google calendar from another website.
# Posted By Mark | 6/11/06 12:54 PM
I do have plans, just nothing very soon. the API from day one allowed folks to write entries, so it's doable for sure.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 6/11/06 7:21 PM
check out my open source coldfusion web calendar product. (I will be making a ajax enabled web calendar one some day soon.) V4 is pretty good. When the ajax enabled calendar is ready upgrades will be available.
# Posted By Greg Benson | 6/23/06 9:49 AM
Ray, I found a pretty helpful calendar base on your cflib site. I modified it slightly to include prev and next month navigation and linked to it on my blog:

http://www.drisgill.com/index.cfm/2006/7/17/Simple...
# Posted By rd | 7/17/06 10:51 AM
Thanks for sharing that. I tend to forget what is on cflib. :)
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 7/17/06 10:55 AM
I know I'm getting to this post a bit late in the game, but thought I'd add that I re-released calendarInfusion as an open-source project as well... http://calendarinfusion.riaforge.org/
# Posted By Greg | 12/22/06 2:33 PM
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