Hy Ralph,
The intendation for my Zend_Calendar proposal was, to provide a component
which can handle different calendar systems. Gregorian, Islamic, Chinese and
several other calendar systems are needed.
It was no component for a "event calendar" nor someone with view
integration. As several people noticed that this would make sense, (maybe
also the name was misleading) I saw that this is out of scope for the
proposal I made.
Therefor my Zend_Calendar will not be developed this way and is already
archived.
I will add the necessary functionallity, for different calendar systems,
directly to Zend_Date (rework for 2.0).
Any other Zend_Calendar author can then take advantage of this directly
through using Zend_Date.
(For example converting from a gregorian date to a chinese date).
Greetings
Thomas Weidner, I18N Team Leader, Zend Framework
http://www.thomasweidner.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Schindler" <[email protected]>
To: "Kyle Spraggs" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [fw-general] SpiffyCalendar for the Zend Framework
Your component is very intersting. From a developers standpoint, I can
tell you that the problem of calendaring comes up more than you think. In
the past, we've seen several Zend_Calendar proposals, most notably
Thomas's:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Calendar+-+Thomas+Weidner
There are several problems in this area I can see there is room to solve
in a component in a generic and reusable way:
* collecting "events" into a container
* handling calender rendering in the view
* interrogation of a calendar object in ways not handled by Zend_Date
* (etc)
Do you have any interest in working towards a Zend_Calendar component?
Nice work!
-ralph
Kyle Spraggs wrote:
I wasn't quite sure which category to post this in but went with the
"general" topic. If this is incorrect please correct me and I'll move it
to the appropriate category.
Finding a Calendar
I ran into a situation this weekend where I needed a calendar for the
Zend Framework. I spent an hour or so searching but couldn’t find
anything that fit my tastes so I made my own. My calendar uses Zend_Date
and Zend_Locale and is truly Zendy (new word?). It uses renderers to
generate the calendar and comes with the default renderer of ZendView.
Features
* Completely integrated as a library package for Zend Framework.
* Utilizes Zend_Date and Zend_Locale provided by the Zend Framework.
* Rendered using different adapters (ships with Zend_View and a view
script).
* Support for adding events/appointments (defaults are Table and
Array but could easily be expanded for others such as JSON/Google
Calendar)
* Easily AJAXified
More information can be found at http://www.spiffyjr.me. I'm finishing up
a few features before I post a download but I would love to hear the
communities thoughts and needs before releasing the initial version.
--
Kyle Spraggs (SpiffyJr)
http://www.spiffyjr.me
