PERL CGI Beginners - Calendar HTML Form

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Calendar HTML Form

B McKee

2004-05-22, 11:30 am

Good Afternoon All
I'm overhauling the website I run for a men's rec
slopitch league. It's all CGI.pm and mySQL. I'm adding
a section to reschedule rain-out games. I want the users
to pick the new date from a 'calendar'.
I think this will be a more natural interface than drop-down
menus. The calendar would be a form that passes the date chosen
along as a hidden param to the next invocation of the script.
I started to twiddle with ideas how to do this last
night, but it now occurs to me I'm likely reinventing the
wheel here - surely others have done this many times. A
quick Google search buried me with irrelevant answers.
Can someone point me towards an example/module/document/starting
point?
I would prefer to not have to install extra modules
(political reasons), and simpler is better than flexible for this.
Any input appreciated
Brian

Owen

2004-05-22, 11:30 am

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:18:29 -0500
B McKee <binlinux@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Good Afternoon All
> I'm overhauling the website I run for a men's rec
> slopitch league. It's all CGI.pm and mySQL. I'm adding
> a section to reschedule rain-out games. I want the users
> to pick the new date from a 'calendar'.
> I think this will be a more natural interface than drop-down
> menus. The calendar would be a form that passes the date chosen
> along as a hidden param to the next invocation of the script.
> I started to twiddle with ideas how to do this last
> night, but it now occurs to me I'm likely reinventing the
> wheel here - surely others have done this many times. A
> quick Google search buried me with irrelevant answers.
> Can someone point me towards an example/module/document/starting
> point?
> I would prefer to not have to install extra modules
> (political reasons), and simpler is better than flexible for this.
> Any input appreciated
> Brian

You might want to look at

HTML::Calendar::Simple - A simple html calendar
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple module which will make an HTML representation of a
given month. You can add links to individual days, or in fact, any sort
of information you want.

but as it involves installing a module somewhere, it may not suit.

Randal Schwartz uses a similar module in
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/We...ques/col66.html and Bill Jones wrote http://backpan.cpan.org/authors/id/...EX/cal.perl_v2A

I don't think you will get an off the shelf answer to your requirement. It's not too dificult to write your own.

--
Owen

Charles K. Clarkson

2004-05-22, 11:30 am

B McKee <binlinux@hotmail.com]> wrote:
:
: I'm overhauling the website I run for a men's rec
: slopitch league. It's all CGI.pm and mySQL. I'm
: adding a section to reschedule rain-out games. I want
: the users to pick the new date from a 'calendar'.
: I think this will be a more natural interface than
: drop-down menus. The calendar would be a form that
: passes the date chosen along as a hidden param to the
: next invocation of the script.
: I started to twiddle with ideas how to do this
: last night, but it now occurs to me I'm likely
: reinventing the wheel here - surely others have done
: this many times. A quick Google search buried me with
: irrelevant answers. Can someone point me towards an
: example/module/document/starting point?
:
: I would prefer to not have to install extra
: modules (political reasons), and simpler is better
: than flexible for this.

So don't tell anyone you installed something. :)

: Any input appreciated

If you're just looking for a nice interface to input
dates and if you are certain javascript works, take a
look at jsCalendar.

http://dynarch.com/mishoo/calendar.epl

HTH,

Charles K. Clarkson
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