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The CakePHP Full Calendar Plugin allows you to easily integrate the jQuery based Full Calendar application with your CakePHP application for a slick ajax event calendar.

The plugin brings the following MIT licensed software (see LICENCE) together to create a simple and sleek experience:

-CakePHP (http://cakephp.org) Required by this plugin

-Full Calendar (http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar) The jQuery based Calendar

-jQuery (http://jquery.com) Required by Full Calendar

-jQuery UI (http://jqueryui.com) Required for draggable and resizable events

-qTip (http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip) A jQuery plugin for hover details

While working on another project I needed a visual calendar for event management for multiple users/accounts. From that project I decided to simplify the calendar and turn it into a plugin because there didn't appear to be a clean (easy to install and use) CakePHP Calendar plugin out there.

In it's current form this plugin is for a single user though I plan on creating a few associated plugins to allow for multiple users, etc.

NOTE: These instructions assume you already have a working copy of CakePHP with a database connection on your web server.

You can read up on CakePHP installation and DB config here: http://book.cakephp.org/#!/view/913/Development AND http://book.cakephp.org/#!/view/922/Database-Configuration

INSTALLED IN 4 SIMPLE STEPS

1. Download or fork the CakePHP Full Calendar Plugin at: https://github.com/silasmontgomery/CakePHP-Full-Calendar-Plugin

2. Create the folder "FullCalendar" in your "app/Plugin" directory and copy the Config, Controller, Model, View, and webroot folders into it.

3. Create an "events" and "event_types" table by importing the "FullCalendar.sql" file found in the "FullCalendar/Config" directory (Using PHPMyAdmin, command-line, etc).

4. In your Cake installation, edit "app/Config/bootstrap.php" and add the line "CakePlugin::load('FullCalendar');" at the bottom.

THAT'S IT!

You should now be able to access the Full Calendar Plugin at: http://yoursite.com/full_calendar

You should add some Event Types first. Then you can start scheduling some Events!