1. Features
2. Requirements
3. Installation
4. Usage
5. i18n
6. Changelog
7. Changes to CSS (default styling)
8. Changes to calendar
9. Assets registering issue
10. Days links

An always up-to-date version of this extension can be found in related GitHub repository. You can use its Issues section to bring any bugs you'll find or any feature requests (though I'm pretty very time-limited, so I might not have enough time to implement them).

This is a Yii 1.x widget, which allows you to put a quite simple, yet very configurable calendar anywhere within your application. Month, week and day views are supported. Most calendar items (including each day in calendar) are rendered as separate subviews, which gives you maximum control power over how this calendar looks and behaves.

Note, that this is pure-presentation, read-only calendar. You can present your data only. If you're looking for rich, user-enabled solution (like Google Calendar), which allows end-user to add, modify and delete events etc., you're most certainly in a wrong place.

This is an enhanced and partially rewritten version of ecalendarview extension. Changes includes:

• shorter names for classes (widgets) and extension itself :],
• some basic, default CSS styling (original extension has no default styling),
• an ability to pass additional data to make selected days a links to some URLs,
• a simple fade effect, when updating calendar via AJAX, to notify user, that something is going on,
• fixed path including (no need to add Yii::setPathOfAlias('ecalendarview', ...) in config file.

In addition doc folder has been removed from original repository, as it contains only files relevant to base ecalendarview extension (ancestor), not to this extension.

Read through original ecalendarview extension's page for all required details. This document only contains changes and differences between yiicalendar and ecalendarview extensions.

Features ¶

As in original extension plus mentioned above.

Requirements ¶

Tested on Yii 1.1.15. Should work on any earlier, down to 1.1.10.

Installation ¶

Download newest version and extract it into extensions folder of your Yii 1.x application.

Usage ¶

To add YiiCalendar in very basic, default look, put this to any of your views or layouts:

<?php $this->widget('ext.yiicalendar.YiiCalendar'); ?>

If, for example, you'd like to have week-only calendar (showing only current week, not entire month) with Monday as first day of each week (Sunday is default), then you should pass some additional parameters:

<?php $this->widget('ext.yiicalendar.YiiCalendar', array
(
    'dataProvider'=>array
    (
        'pagination'=>array
        (
            'pageSize'=>'week',
            'isMondayFirst'=>TRUE
        )
      )
)); ?>

The itemView property has been enhanced. As in ecalendarview extension, it specifies view to be used to render each day. If this is not defined, a default view is used. Inside that view following data can be accessed (new property in bold):

• CBaseController $this - the controller,
• DateTime $data->date - the date object of particular day,
• boolean $data->isCurrent - whether particular day is selected (TRUE),
• array $data->link - the link data for particular day (see last section of this document),
• boolean $data->isRelevant - whether particular day is part of current month (TRUE) or only a padding in the beginning and end of the month page (FALSE).

All other properties are the same as in case of original extension.

i18n ¶

Same rules apply as in case of ecalendarview extension, with only small change, that you should put your translated strings into [LANGUAGEID]/yiicalendar.php file, in your application's messages folder (so, for Polish full path would be /protected/messages/pl/yiicalendar.php).

Changelog ¶

Version 1.1:

• some very minor changes to CSS styles,
• added fade / dim / opacity effect, when updating calendar via AJAX,
• made isMondayFirst default to TRUE (as in most modern calendars).

Version 1.0:

• initial version with changes (toward original extension) mentioned above and below.

If you'd like to see changelog for the original extension, follow this link.

Changes to CSS (default styling) ¶

Original ecalendarview extension has nearly no default CSS styling, leaving everything to end user / developer. This extension (yiicalendar) introduces some basic styling. Remove or comment line with style given in brackets on the following list, to get rid of particular change).

These changes includes:

• current day is marked with coloured background (background-color: #C3D6E4;),
• calendar days are squares and have bigger font size (table.yiicalendar tbody td),
• arrows (navigation links) have different style (table.yiicalendar a.navigation-link),
• calendar headers have background and border styled in greys (table.yiicalendar thead th).

You can override these styles per application by adding /css/calendar.css (path is relative to app's root) file and running widget with 'cssFile'=>'css/calendar.css' property set (you can, of course, change or adapt paths as much as you want). You can also change these styles permanently (edit extensions/yiicalendar/assets/styles.css file). But this is highly not recommended way.

Changes to calendar ¶

In addition to CSS changes, I have also changed:

• added fade / dim / opacity effect, when updating calendar via AJAX,
• made isMondayFirst default to TRUE (as in most modern calendars),
• line arrows (← and →) are changes to double arrows (« and ») in navigation links pane.

Assets registering issue ¶

Note, that due to a strange nature of how original extension register assets, you can have only one style per once -- either built-in one (extensions/yiicalendar/assets/styles.css) or custom one ('cssFile'=>'css/calendar.css'), not both at the same time (as in most extensions, where custom styles overrides built-in styles). Because only one of these files is registered by extension (basing on whether cssFile property is set or not).

And, both assets (styles.css and yiicalendar.js) are published to separate folders in your app's assets directory, because they're registered in two separate condition checkings (styles are published and registered only, if user is not using custom styles and Javascript code is published and registered only, if ajaxUpdate property is set to TRUE (by default, it is), that is -- calendar is updated via AJAX.

I didn't change this, because I didn't have enough time. Refer to YiiCalendar::init() method, if you don't like this and would like to change this behavior.

Days links ¶

This extension introduces new property called linksArray, which is an array of 'date'=>'data' sets, used to add links to certain dates in the calendar.

The date part (array's key) can be in any date or time format, that is accepted by PHP's DateTime class constructor. For example, if using timestamps, you must begin each with @. See "Supported Date and Time Formats" chapter in PHP documentation for details.

If you're using default view (see information about itemView property above or in original extension documentation), the data part (array's value) can be:

• a string -- it will be used as URL under particular day's number,
• an array -- use it like htmlOptions (for example in CHtml::link() method).

If you're using your own view to render calendar cells, the data part can be of any type, but you have to process it yourself in your view.

First approach (using data as string) let's you add a quick links to selected dates in calendar:

<?php $this->widget('ext.yiicalendar.YiiCalendar', array
(
    'linksArray'=>array
    (
        '@1418123575'=>'http://www.example.com',
        '2014-12-13'=>'http://www.exampleblog.com/date/2014/12/13'
    )
)); ?>

Second approach is a bit more complex (but gives you much more power in defining links in calendar):

<?php $this->widget('ext.yiicalendar.YiiCalendar', array
(
    'linksArray'=>array
    (
        '2014-12-13'=>array
        (
            'title'=>'Hoop and goo! :]',
            'style'=>'font-weight: bold; color: red;',
            'href'=>'http://www.exampleblog.com/date/2014/12/13'
        )
    )
)); ?>

You can set title, special styling, class or anything, what is supported by standard, Yii 1.x htmlOptions array. Yes, you can even attach Javascript events through clientChange and use non-standard attributes (like data-), for example to use Twitter Bootstrap's tooltips, popovers or modals. Or anything else from any other library. Sky and your imagination are the only limits.

Of course, with any of above methods you can set link for any date, not just those in current month.