A calendar created in PHP to allow users to add events and appointments easily. Once signed in, clicking on a day will bring up an interface (see image below) to allow an item to be added to that day. Options become available to repeat the event every year, as in a birthday for example, or to make the event visible in the public timeline for everyone to see. The default setting is to not have events publicly visible unless you choose to make it so, and this is why I decided to require users to sign in first, rather than having a free-for-all option as with the chat.


View Calendar

I've made the calendar replace the F1 calendar in the main navigation bar, but you can still view the F1 calendar from the link at the bottom of the page.

Continuing on from my feedreader webapp, I've updated the motorsports calendar I created earlier in the year, and made it ready for next year's events. It's a little quicker, and the added external links now load on demand rather than all at once initially, which saves the server a lot of rummaging around in databases. It's done in PHP with MySQL and jQuery scripts.

The image is how it'll look in the middle of next year, once a few races have taken place. It checks the current date and adjusts the styling depending on whether each race is a future race, a past race or a current race. All events listed are two- or three-day weekend events, so there's a good chance that if you look at the page on a weekend in 2011, there'll be at least one form of motorsport on.

External links to past races are displayed to highlights of past races hosted on the BBC website, as well as to iPlayer if it detects that an F1 race was shown within the last seven days, and so the race will be available on iPlayer. Once a race has completed, a results link appears that takes you to the official F1 website, assuming they don't adjust their link formats in the meantime.

Have a look.

Just about finished my motorsports calendar. I've added options for links, mostly aimed at the BBC website, which have highlights of previous races, but no logical way of finding them, so this should keep them all together. I opened the ability to post links to anyone, but left them invisible until I approve them, so the page doesn't get abused by dirty spammers.

Other than adding links, the whole thing is automated, after the initial entering into the database of the various events. This also means it's very easy to include another series I may decide to watch, or if one is requested by anyone. The calendar counts down to the next event, and automatically produces iPlayer links when available, and removes them after 7 days, when they are deleted.

It needs tidying up, especially on the style front, both visually and code (I added inline styles rather than using up the main stylesheet, when I should have really added a unique stylesheet for it but realised too late as I expanded it), but for now it does its job.