Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Web-based calendars My boss wanted to put his association's calendar on their website, so I've been evaluating the numerous PHP/MySQL-based solutions available. The problem I'm having with all of them is that you have to get MySQL running properly :) As I was tinkering with another PHP package, it occured to me that I should just use our existing FileMaker/Lasso setup. The admin responsible for maintaining the calendar is already using FileMaker, and there are some ready-made calendar solutions available for Lasso. Problem solved! One of the PHP apps I came across is PHP-iCalendar. It's very nice, and easy to configure. The user simply needs to export an .ics file from iCal and upload to the web server running PHP-iCalendar. Unfortunately, my boss can't use this because iCal is MacOS X-only. 4:58:36 PM