... for my vbulletin calander. I'm especially interested in odd holidays and any info about how they started. =)

Great idea!

Makes me want to find one of those novelty desktop calendars and start entering them into vB. Adding them into the holiday manager would take a lot of time! If I were to do it, could I easily share it with other vB users?

Great idea!

Makes me want to find one of those novelty desktop calendars and start entering them into vB. Adding them into the holiday manager would take a lot of time! If I were to do it, could I easily share it with other vB users?
Sure you can, I think it's up to you of what to do with your hacks. This sounds interesting though. Show us some progress when your up to it.

Great idea!

Makes me want to find one of those novelty desktop calendars and start entering them into vB. Adding them into the holiday manager would take a lot of time! If I were to do it, could I easily share it with other vB users?
There is a way to export only that data through the backup process. That data could then be imported/sql'd into anyone elses database, but that, ofcourse, is the hard route. ;-)

Kind of cool to have all the holidays and a discussion thread linked to it, for example :)
Thread: holiday [year]
That vBulletin will automaticly make a new thread a few days before the holiday so people can discuss it :P

Apoco....I've considered using the database backup to pull the holiday part of the calendar from the DB, but I'm not at all sure how to do that. You said that that would be the "hard route". Is there another route that has fewer corners, turns, and bad men with lights on top of their car? Wow..bad analogy.. is there an easier way?

Floris....that too would be very cool! I'm sure that it would require code editing, which automatically puts me out of the running for putting that togeather.

I have done some investigating regarding holidays, and there are a ton! It would be difficult to choose which ones to use. In this thread alone we have two countries represented, and who knows how many religous beliefs. Seems like we would have to add most if not all of them.

This website will give you an idea of what I mean as far as the number of holidays...Earth Calendar (http://www.earthcalendar.net/_php/lookup.php?mode=date&m=03&d=28&y=2005).....I think it would clog the calendar way to much.

Looking for opinions suggestions.

Thanks for the link. I was toying with the idea of making a calander import/exporter so we could more easilly share with each other. I was thinking of using calander ID's to differentiate them.

- Odd Holidays
- Religious Holidays
- etc.

A calendar exporter/importer would be awsome. I also found some downloadable calendars for Palm and other devices. Do you think that there would be a way to "pull" the info we wanted from there to a vB calendar?

Here's another site too. I like this one better since there wont be any issue using the data.
http://icalshare.com/comment.php?sid=20050204085158144&pid=0&type=article


edit: looks like I-Cal is an open standard supported by Apple and Mozilla among others. I guess ideally if we could import/export vb-calanders to an i-cal format (xul based), that would be the most benificial since we could readilly tap into alot of existing stuff.

Great Link!!!

I looked at the way the calendars download and it looks like something that Vb would spit out. If I'm reading it correctly we would need to pull the start date variable which is in yyyymmdd format , the Summary variable which is actually the name of the event, and finally the discription. Not all entries have a discription. What we need is a way to pull these from the "ics" file and plug them into the database under the correct variable. At least I think... Way above my abilities, how about you Reeve of Shinra?

I may give it a shot but I'm also busy. I found a program on sourceforge that I may be able to use as a base. I'm thinking about the admin end right now... I would like it to work in the same way that the style manager does - import into existing calander or create new. I think this gives everyone more flexability into getting what they want out of it using readilly available ical files.

That application seems like overkill. This really should be a simple xml type upload / download.

Does anyone know what table new holidays are added to when created in the holiday manager? It wasn't holiday lol

I have few programing/code skills but would be happy to help in any other way possible. Let me know what I can do if you get a chance to work on it.