In a previous article posted to the Okada Design Blog, they showed you how to create a calendar using jQuery, CodeIgniter and the BackendPro toolset. They're back with a new article today showing how you can do the same thing without BackendPro.

I have some requests for a Event Calendar without BackendPro. Since it is not using BeP, I only used CRUD without individual calendar. So there won't be any mycal function. I took out all of the Bep thingy and made it simpler (I hope).

If you want the full tutorial on how the CodeIgniter part is set up, check out their previous article. If you're just looking for the new sans-BackendPro code, you can download it here.

On the Okada Design Blog there's a recent tutorial posted showing you how to create a simple calendar system by combining the CodeIgniter PHP framework and jQuery for some of the client side features.

This blog inspired me to make an event calendar using CodeIgniter. You can download Bari's source files. Please unzip it and save them. We are going to use them later. Bari puts a demo here. We are going to add this to CodeIgniter. I continue using BackendPro for this purpose.

Using the BakcendPro as a base, they create everything else to wrap around it: some CSS and Javascript, a database table to store the events, and the PHP code - the controller, model and views for general viewing, editing and creating a new calendar. Full code is provided for all both in cut&pasteable code blocks and in a downloadable file.

In case you missed it, several members of the PHP community have banded together for this year's PHP Advent "calendar" articles. With today being the 25th, all of the posts have been made and there's tons of great content you don't want to miss out on like:

• GeoIP Wrangling
• PHP's Not Just a Language
• CSS and Other People
• Developers Versus Designers
• One Step at a Time
• Comprehensible Code

Check out the full list for this year for more excellent content.

In the spirit of several others on the web this holiday season, Stoyan Stefanov has started up his own advent calendar. He's already posted several articles in the series including:

• The performance roadmap
• Required reading
• The pain points of having fewer components
• Data URIs, MHTML and IE7/Win7/Vista blues

You can keep an eye on this post for an update as each new article is added to the calendar.

Just in time for the holidays the PHP Women have released a calendar for the new year (2010) featuring photos of several of the founders and leaders in the group (as taken at php|tek 2009).

The rumours have been flying around for a while, and we even dropped some hints; since its December it is time for us to confirm that there is a PHPWomen Calendar available for 2010, and it is now on sale. It features our charter members dressed as the beautiful women they are, with a guest appearance by our booth babes.

You can check out the calendar over on Zazzle and pick up a copy of your own for prices between $24 and $30 USD (depending on the size ordered). Ten percent of each purchase goes directly back to the PHP Women organization where it will be used for their many programs (like mentoring and other programs to help out women in the PHP community).

Based on a fix for a recent bug, Derick Rethans wanted to clear up something about the Unix Epoc's definition and how it relates to the UTC time zone.

While right now it is proper to define the Unix Epoch at "1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC", UTC wasn't actually defined until 1972. So it would be more correct to define the Unix Epoch as "the number of seconds elapsed since midnight proleptic Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds." (from Wikipedia).

He talks about the calendar PHP uses internally and how dates predating it's use don't make much sense either (as well as the modified version PHP uses that includes "year zero").

New on PHPBuilder.com there's a quick tutorial showing you how to create a simple calendar and add dates for your events.

Gone were any thoughts of simplicity whatsoever, or so I thought. Then it struck me. What was a calender but just a looping number system? The more I thought about it the more simple it became. At the end of the day, with a little research into PHP's date functions I had come up with something that actually worked. The working example can be downloaded here.

Their example uses either the current month or one inputted from the URL to determine things like day of the week to start, number of days in the month, how many weeks to display, etc. They also have to take the year into consideration so switching between December and January is just as seamless.

Kae Verens has posted a quick post looking at combining the jQuery javascript library with a PHP backend to create a more advanced calendaring system for your site.

I was supposed to write about Datatables for chapter 6, but the website of the plugin I was going to use (http://www.datatables.net/) was down for about a week, and so I wrote about Calendars instead. [...] In chapter 6 of the book, I'll walk through how to build a simple calendar, including creation and editing of events, and including once-off and recurring events.

You can see a demo of the script, an image of the result and download the code if you want to get started directly.

If you're looking for Open Source events to attend in your area (or just about anywhere around the world), check out this calendar as provided by Init Marketing with a great listing of happenings in over fifteen countries around the world.

Below calendar contains world-wide conferences and trade fairs related to Free and Open Source Software, IT and specific industries. It also shows events where you can meet with InitMarketing.

Countries included in the list are Germany, the US, Japan, Italy, Australia, China and many more. If you have an event that's not on the list and you'd like to see added, leave them a comment on that page and they'll get in contact with you.

Its the holiday season and even the PHP community is getting into the spirit. Much like last year, >Chris Shiflett (joined this time by >Sean Coates) have created this year's PHP Advent calendar.

From Chris Shiflett's blog:

Is it December again already? I like good traditions, so with the help of Sean and many others, PHP Advent is back again, this time with its own domain. I would call it a web site, but that might be stretching the truth at the moment. Jon is going to help us out with a simple design in the very near future. The focus, of course, is the quality content from our gracious authors.

The December 1st post for this year is one by yours truely - You Need the PHP Community. For more great content as the month goes on, you can keep up either through their feed, on Twitter or just by heading over to the site each day.