Simple calendar/availability calendar

5 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: July 31, 2013   (RSS)

By Kittybiccy - July 30, 2013

I'm working on a small site for a holiday rental and want to have a calendar to show when the property is/isn't available. I'd like to do this simply, by the background colour of the cell being different when unavailable. Any ideas how I could do this?

I'd need the dates/months to be auto generated somehow.

Thanks in advance!
Hannah

By gregThomas - July 30, 2013

Hi Hannah,

There are a lot of great resources on how to create a PHP calenders on the net, in the past I've used this tutorial by David Walsh to get started:

http://davidwalsh.name/php-event-calendar

I've also integrated full Calendar into a site before, although this can actually be more complicated that creating something custom sometimes 

http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/

Cheers

Greg

Greg Thomas







PHP Programmer - interactivetools.com

By Kittybiccy - July 31, 2013

Thanks Greg!

If I were to go with the full calendar version, so that site visitors could click through the months and check the availability of the rental, how would I then link in the CMS/how would you suggest the records work there?

Hannah

By rconring - July 31, 2013

Zick's calendar should work fine for your purpose.  I have used it on many different sites and it works well with CMSB.  The basics you need are in the zip file attached to this post.  Here is my latest implementation on a church site. 

http://stmarymassillon.com/events.php?Events-And-Fundraisers-28

Give the calendar a try ... there is more information on this forum on tailoring the calendar.

Good luck!

Ron Conring
Conring Automation Services
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zickey_calendar5_001.zip 19K