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• Web_based_shared_calendar_review

Web based shared calendar options

Web based

• WebCalendar

  • PHP
  • Works pretty well.
  • Able to view events via ics with Evolution.
  • Chosen project to use.
  • Had to slightly hack the development for it to work:

    • includes/translate.php in function translate added the lines:

        global $lang_file;
        $lang_file = 'translations/English-US.txt';

    • A database password needs to be set

• Plans

  • Perl
  • Works well. Has a nice event view.

  • Calendar view interface not quite as good as WebCalendar

• Kronolith

  • Supports using desktop clients..
  • Looks ok. Interface not as pretty as the above two.

Rejected

• Didn't bother reviewing a lot of others:

  • http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php?topic=Competitors

  • http://www.planscalendar.com/index.php?p=competition

• Bedework

  • Very complex Java codebase.
  • Needs J2SE 5.0 or later.
  • Doesn't work out of the box on F8 (J2SE 7 preview).

• PHPWebcalendar

  • PHP
  • AJAX
  • poor quality

• Citadel

  • GPL
  • Complex "groupware"
  • Code written in C.

• chaussette

  • PHP (Version 5 required)
  • MySQL
  • AJAX
  • Hasn't been updated in a while. No proper homepage.
  • All in French. Nightmare to install.

• Zimbra calendar component

  • Complicated groupware

• http://www.scalix.com

  • Complicated groupware

• chronoss

  • Perl.
  • No release since 2002

CalDAV clients and servers

Worth getting something that supports the [wiki:CalDAV CalDAV] standard. Ideally we would just install the server and use native desktop clients rather than a sucky web interface.

• Darwin calendar server (not a client or interface)

  • Install article

• Evolution CalDAV extension
• iCal