June 10th, 2020
WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user or multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors.
Why Use WebCalendar
WebCalendar is intended to be easy to set up and use while providing advanced features and flexibility for a widely varied user base. It can be used as a scheduling system for an intranet or an events calendar. It is an open-source application, which means it is free to use.
WebCalendar can be set up in a variety of ways, such as…
- A schedule management system for a single person
- A schedule management system for a group of people, allowing one or more assistants to manage the calendar of another user
- An events schedule that anyone can view, allowing visitors to submit new events.
- A calendar server that can be viewed with iCalendar-compliant calendar applications like Mozilla Sunbird, Apple Cal, or GNOME Evolution or RSS-enabled applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, RSSOwl, FeedDemon, or BlogExpress.
Features
- XHTML/CSS compliance
- Multi-user support
- 30 supported languages: Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese-Big5, Chinese-GB2312, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English-US, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Holo-Big5, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese_BR, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh
- Auto-detect user’s language preference from browser settings
- View calendars by day, week, month or year
- View another user’s calendar
- View one or more users’ calendar via layers on top of your calendar
- Add/Edit/Delete users
- Add/Edit/Delete events
- Repeating events including support for overriding or deleting (exceptions)
- Configurable custom event fields
- User-configurable preferences for colors, 12/24 time format, Sun/Mon week start
- Online help
- Checks for scheduling conflicts
- Email reminders for upcoming events
- Email notifications for new/updated/deleted events
- Export events to iCalendar, vCalendar or Palm
- Import from iCalendar, vCalendar or Palm
- Optional general access (no login required) to allow the calendar to be viewed by people without a login (useful for event calendars)
- Users can make their calendar available publicly to anyone with an iCalendar-compliant calendar program (such as Apple’s iCal, Mozilla Calendar or Sunbird)
- Publishing of free/busy schedules (part of the iCalendar standard)
- RSS support that puts a user’s calendar into RSS (WebCalendar 1.1+)
- Subscribe to “remote” calendars (hosted elsewhere on the net) in either iCalendar or hCalendar formats (WebCalendar 1.1+)
- User authentication: Web-based, HTTP, LDAP or NIS
Conclusion
If you are looking for a single or multi-user calendar platform that is built for a scheduling system for an intranet or an events calendar, you might want to take a look at WebCalendar hosting.
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