Show 12 months of calendar

[Ben]

I'm looking to display 12 months at a time, like what you see here: http://www.watershedcabins.com/reservations.phtml. I'm redesigning a website that I built many years ago and am trying to come up with a clever way to streamline the rate calendar. My plan is to have 3 event archives to represent the yellow, blue and green rates. Days without an "event" will simply be brown.

So ... do you know of a way to list 12 calendars at once? Or, do you have any ideas on a decent solution to this? On the existing site, my client uses a wysiwyg editor to change the dates each year and he manually changes the bg color of each cell. I figured using the calendar and setting the bg color for .cal_2, etc.

Thanks for any tips / ideas you all can offer.

[Ben]

One other idea (that I could use some pointers on) is to display only one month at a time. When someone goes to the next or previous month, the new data could be loaded with Ajax. Has anyone done this or know of any pointers to get me started? I'm aware of Andreas' Ajax class. I just don't know how to get started with this.

[vinchenzison]

On a site I did recently, I created a dropdown box with a list of months that a user could select to filter by month.
*This isn't done with ajax so might not be of use*


http://www.connect-elim.org.uk/index...tml?day=201011

Don't know if this will be of any help to you

<?php 
if (isset($_GET['month'])) { 
$month = $_GET['month'];
$year = $_GET['year'];
header("Location: /index.php/calendar.html?day=$year$month");
exit;
} else {
?>
<div class="caldropdown">
<form method="get" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>" id="dateselect">
<?php
$viewingmonth = substr($_GET['day'], 4, 2);
$months = array ('', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June','July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December');
$monthnum = array ('', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10', '11', '12');
$monthrange = range (1, 12);
$weekday = array('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday');

$currentMonth = date('m');
$currentYear = date('Y');
$next2years = date('Y')+2;
$years = range ($currentYear, $next2years);
$i = 0;

echo "Month: <select name='month'>";
foreach ($monthrange as $value) {
    if($monthnum[$value] == $viewingmonth && $i == 0): 
            $default = ' selected="yes"';
            $i++;
        elseif ($monthnum[$value] == $currentMonth && $i == 0):
            $default = ' selected="yes"';
        else: 
            $default = '';
    endif;
    
  echo '<option'.$default.' value="'.$monthnum[$value].'">'.$months[$value].'</option>\n';
} 
echo '</select>';

echo " Year: <select name='year'>";
foreach ($years as $value) {
    if($value == $currentYear):
            $default = ' selected="yes"';
            else: $default = '';
        endif;
    echo '<option '.$default.' value="'.$value.'">'.$value.'</option>\n';
} 
?>
<input type="submit" value="View" />
</form>
</div>
<?php } ?>

It's could probably do with some editing as I'm no pro at coding but it works for me ok.

[ramjet]

Have a look here Ben
http://keith-wood.name/datepick.html
It may just do what you want.... i'm playing with it at the moment, pretty easy to implement.

[Ben]

I'd prefer that it list a few months than have a navigator / selector, but thanks for the tip, vinchenzison.

What exactly are you doing with the datepicker, ramjet? Are you able to feed events in by rss or something?

[ramjet]

I've just started toying with it today.
Loosely I'm building a module for listing accommodation to let, and i need a way to select multiple dates at once, which the Contao calendar plugin doesn't do.
At the moment I'm looking purely at data in.... theres a thread in "developers" describing more.
I do know the calendar in the link i mentioned can display 12 months though