Home made PHP and SQL Calender

Question

I'm making a PHP calender which will output the contents of a
database via SQL. At the moment ive got heading (just a quick over
view of whats happening), event (more detailed info not shown
during the standard calender view), importance (this will simply be
a cel colour which I can do very easily without help) and date
(day, month, year) as my fields. I'm trying to figure a way of
putting something in each field and getting it to come out on the
appropriate date on my finished calender.
It's VERY early stages so SQL development hasn't begun yet, I
wan't to do this completely by hand (I'm aware theres calender PHP
scripts already). I was thinking of making a database containing
each month, day and year and if theres something in the specific
fields then outputting whatever I've wrote in it, however this will
make the database HUGE! Whats the simplist and easiest way to do
this.
P.S I also want to be able to have multiple entries for one
date

Answer 1

"slowpoke115" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I'm making a PHP calender which will output the contents
of a database via
> SQL.
> At the moment ive got heading (just a quick over view of
whats happening),
> event (more detailed info not shown during the standard
calender view),
> importance (this will simply be a cel colour which I can
do very easily
> without
> help) and date (day, month, year) as my fields. I'm
trying to figure a way
> of
> putting something in each field and getting it to come
out on the
> appropriate
> date on my finished calender.
>
> It's VERY early stages so SQL development hasn't begun
yet, I wan't to do
> this
> completely by hand (I'm aware theres calender PHP
scripts already). I was
> thinking of making a database containing each month, day
and year and if
> theres
> something in the specific fields then outputting
whatever I've wrote in
> it,
> however this will make the database HUGE! Whats the
simplist and easiest
> way to
> do this.
>
> P.S I also want to be able to have multiple entries for
one date
Did a calendar extension for ASP once, for data storage it
used a simple sql
table containing a EventDate and EventTitle column, the
display logic was
something like below
retrieve Events WHERE Date >= first day of month AND Date
<= last day of
month
for each Week in the Month
begin table row
for each day in the Week
begin table cell
for each event in selected Events
If(EventDate == day) Print EventTitle
next event
end table cell
next day
end table row
next Week
I hope you get an idea about how to avoid creating a row for
each and every
date
Joris