Negus Live Linux Series Practical PHP and MySQL

Chapter 8. Creating a Web-Based Calendar

For most of us, life is increasingly busy. Unless you made a few million in the stock market and now live aboard a gold-plated yacht, keeping your meetings, social events, dentist appointments, and basket weaving club meetings straight is a daily struggle.

In this project, you will create a Web-based calendar to help with these struggles. The project implements everything you need to manage your life—the ability to view months at a time, display event information, and add new events. Although simple in concept, calendars offer a number of interesting challenges for developers. To make the project even more interesting, you explore Ajax, a technology set that provides for highly dynamic Web sites that function ...