I am trying to use full calendar to render a timetable online. Ideally, I’d like to have a lot of functionality with this. Initially, I would like to connect it to my SQL database, retrieve data from a table containing events for a particular user. I am using SQL compact server and C# and the Razor syntax. What is the best way to go about doing this?
I am working with the selectable demo from the website and so far my code is this :
<html>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='../fullcalendar/fullcalendar.css' />
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='../fullcalendar/fullcalendar.print.css' media='print' />
<script type='text/javascript' src='../jquery/jquery-1.7.1.min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='../jquery/jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='../fullcalendar/fullcalendar.min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function() {
var date = new Date();
var d = date.getDate();
var m = date.getMonth();
var y = date.getFullYear();
var calendar = $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
header: {
left: 'prev,next today',
center: 'title',
right: 'month,agendaWeek,agendaDay'
},
selectable: true,
selectHelper: true,
select: function(start, end, allDay) {
var title = prompt('Event Title:');
if (title) {
calendar.fullCalendar('renderEvent',
{
title: title,
start: start,
end: end,
allDay: allDay
},
true // make the event "stick"
);
}
calendar.fullCalendar('unselect');
},
editable: true,
events: [
{
title: 'All Day Event',
start: new Date(y, m, 1)
},
{
title: 'Long Event',
start: new Date(y, m, d-5),
end: new Date(y, m, d-2)
},
{
id: 999,
title: 'Repeating Event',
start: new Date(y, m, d-3, 16, 0),
allDay: false
},
{
id: 999,
title: 'Repeating Event',
start: new Date(y, m, d+4, 16, 0),
allDay: false
},
{
title: 'Meeting',
start: new Date(y, m, d, 10, 30),
allDay: false
},
{
title: 'Lunch',
start: new Date(y, m, d, 12, 0),
end: new Date(y, m, d, 14, 0),
allDay: false
},
{
title: 'Birthday Party',
start: new Date(y, m, d+1, 19, 0),
end: new Date(y, m, d+1, 22, 30),
allDay: false
},
{
title: 'Click for Google',
start: new Date(y, m, 28),
end: new Date(y, m, 29),
url: 'http://google.com/'
}
]
});
});
</script>
<style type='text/css'>
body {
text-align: center;
font-size: 14px;
font-family: "Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;
}
#calendar {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='calendar'></div>
</body>
</html>
This is saved in a .html file. I’m guessing the best way would be to convert this to a .cshtml form and use C# to connect to a a database similar to this :
@{
var db = Database.Open("myDB");
var Name = Request["Title"];
var Description = Request["Start"];
var Price = Request["End"];
var allDay = Request["myDB"];
}
What is the best way of populating my events in the JavaScript using this?
I would look at some of the other examples such as json feed. Here you can use a php, or as in my case a .net connection to a backend database which will provide a ‘reply’ as a json feed. FullCallendar has all the code to interpret this feed and display them.