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Episode: 63
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Title: HPR0063: WebCalendar
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0063/hpr0063.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 10:54:00
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Welcome to another episode of HPR. I am your host Enigma, and today I'll be talking about
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Web Calendar. Web Calendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single
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user calendar, a multi-user calendar, or an event calendar that is viewable by visitors.
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Web Calendar has a ODBC backend that stores all of the events users in a database. You
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can set it up to use MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle DB2, Interbase, MSSQL Server, or pretty much
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any other ODBC compliant database. Web Calendar has multi-lingual support. It supports up to
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30 languages which are on its site. I'll have a link to its site in the show notes. The calendar
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server can be viewed with any I calendar compliant calendar application, such as Mozilla Sunbird,
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Apple ICal, or Nome Evolution, or any RSS-enabled application like Firefox, Thunderbird, RSSL,
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FeedDemon, or Blog Express. It has built-in RSS feeds, which I am currently playing with on our
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hacker events.org that's powered by Web Calendar. That's the site that I have the most
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experience with this application, and if you go check that out, you'll see the practical
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application for this package. The one thing that I don't like about this app is that the
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style sheets aren't the most pretty. Let's put it that way. I'm still playing with it. I don't
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like the style sheets that are available, and I can't find any skins for it. If anyone's good
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in CSS, please email me. I've got a few projects that I just don't have the artistic talent for,
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and could use some guidance. Some features that I do like, it has you can view the calendars
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basically their day, week, month, or year, just like any other calendar application. Really nothing
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special there. You can view others calendars. You can view someone else's calendar on top of
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your calendar, so you can compare events. You can add edit and delete users, add edit and delete
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events. Repeat events like, for example, we have our bin rev meetings scheduled every third
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Friday of every month. We have, and you can put in a description, the website and just a little
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description of what the event is. You have a configurable custom event fields, user configurable
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preferences for colors. You also have a default color scheme that I've been playing with. You can check for
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scheduling conflicts like Outlook does with its calendar. You have email notifications for new updated
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deleted events. You have RSS for update and new updated and deleted events and also unapproved events. If
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you have a calendar that supports anonymous adding of events, you can import events from I calendar,
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V calendar, or Palm. You have an optional general access, which is no login required to allow
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calendar to be viewed with people without a login, like hacker events has, so anybody can view the
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calendar. Also, you can publish free busy schedules to all users, kind of like Outlook does. The RSS
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supports that puts a user's calendar into RSS. Again, I haven't played with the RSS feeds enough
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yet to know how well they work. I have a test site that I'm playing with at the moment before I
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actually drag it over to hacker events. You can subscribe to remote calendars, hosted elsewhere,
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and then either on I calendar or each calendar formats, and then the user authentication is web-based
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HTTP, LDAP, or NIS. A nice part of the package is it has an add-on that has a capture in it. Back in
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late last year, we were having a lot of trouble with a spam on the site who gets, I had like 15,000
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spam messages within a month or two. It was just absolutely insane. You can also implement a
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capture on the site that will limit your spam. Also, one thing I don't like about the site is there
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is no select all for the unapproved events. Basically, you have to delete them one by one or go
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and go behind the scenes and go into the database and delete them out of the database table, which is what we
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ended up doing. If anyone has any questions, comments about this package, please email me. Again,
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if anyone has any experience with CSS and wants to help out on a couple projects, please email me. Also,
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if anyone wants to do a show or be a part of this hacker-public radio thing, we've got going on,
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email me at admin at hacker-publicradio.org. We will set you up with whatever you need to make that
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happen, as well as give you some show ideas, things like that. That's it for today. I'm
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Enigma again and have a nice day.
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