Ajax Availability Calendar

Hi Chris

Great script but im just having trouble figuring out how to make a 'public' version of the calendar too so that visitors cannot change availability dates too. Ive been through the forum and the readme files but it doesnt explain how to create a public version of the calendar too. Its obviously possible as i have seen on your example websites but im just too stupid to figure it out?!

Can you help?!

Cheers

Hi there mac and welcome to the forum

You are right, the documentation is lacking bit by bit I am trying to improve this script, not only in the way it works but also in the way it is "packaged" so this is something I will have to add to the instructions file.

It is actually rather simple, hopefully you will have spotted the call to the function that actually draws the calendar: "draw_cal()"
This requires several variables, the last one of which is the "editable state" of the calendar - this can either be "1" - ie editable or "0" - non-editable.

Calendar in edit mode:

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draw_cal(ID_ITEM,$val["month"], $val["year"], $booked_days,1)

Calendar in "public" mode:

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draw_cal(ID_ITEM,$val["month"], $val["year"], $booked_days,0)

You will have to either create a copy of the calendar with this value modified for "public viewing" or control this variable by some kind of admin restricted control.

I hope this answers your question - let me know how it goes

Chris

chris - i just thought that this page on it's own would be pretty much enough information for many people if you made it a sticky

My own experience

following chris's instructions on this page, I:

created a new page calendar.php in the same directory as the editable page and copied the contents of the editable page onto it

did a search for draw_cal

changed it's last value to 0

changed the form action attribute to calendar.php

that's it - working front end public page - i havent done extensive testing but it seems fine i can change the backend and the public can only view but not make changes