Laravel 5 module to integrate a fullcalendar javascript plugin. It provides simple way to store events in the database and supports event repeat.

Installation

Use the standard way composer require todstoychev/calendar-events.

Register the service provider at your Laravel config/app.php. You should add Todstoychev\CalendarEvents\CalendarEventsServiceProvider::class.

Run php artisan vendor:publish to publish config and other assets.

This module provides also 3 migration files. It will be necessary to run them php artisan migrate.

Usage

Forms

This module comes with a ready to use form template. The form can be used as edit and add form. In your blade use @include('calendar-events::form') to include it in your page. Also feel free to override and extend this template.

To use this form add to your page you will need a javascript file provided from the module. After running vendor publish command you should be able to find public/js/calendar-events.js. This script is necessary to control provided form. It contains simple JS object with few methods inside.

Controller

Since this module has service provider at the container, you can access CalendarEventsService::class in your controller like this:

protected $calendarEventsService;

    public function __construct(CalendarEventsService $calendarEventsService)
    {
        $this->calendarEventsService = $calendarEventsService;
    }

This the main module class that contains all the necessary methods to interact with.

Module provides a request class which can be used to validate your input data. Here an example usage of how to create new event.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Todstoychev\CalendarEvents\Http\Requests\CalendarEventRequest;
use Todstoychev\CalendarEvents\Services\CalendarEventsService;

class IndexController extends Controller
{
    protected $calendarEventsService;

    public function __construct(CalendarEventsService $calendarEventsService)
    {
        $this->calendarEventsService = $calendarEventsService;
    }

    public function postAdd(CalendarEventRequest $request)
    {
        $this->calendarEventsService->createCalendarEvent($request->input());
    }
}

The service class has methods to provide fully functional crud. To update event you can use CalendarEventsService::updateCalendarEvent(). To get a single event use CalendarEventsService::getCalendarEvent(). CalendarEventsService::getAllEvents() will fetch all calendar events. The most important method is probably CalendarEventsService::getAllEventsToJson(). This one should be used with the javascript plugin. The method provides the necessary json string. Here example of usage. In your controller create a method like this one:

     public function getJson()
     {
         echo $this->calendarEventsService->getAllEventsAsJson();
     }

This one should be used with fullcalendar like this:

<div id="calendar"></div>
<script src="{{ asset('jquery.js') }}"></script>
<script src="{{ asset('js/calendar-events.js') }}"></script> <!-- This is where the CalendarEvents object comes from. -->
<script src="{{ asset('fullcalendar/lib/moment.min.js') }}"></script>
<script src="{{ asset('fullcalendar/fullcalendar.min.js') }}"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function () {
        CalendarEvents.init();
        $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
            eventSources: [
                {
                    url: 'http://example.com/json'
                }
            ]
        });
    });
</script>

Do not forget that you will need to include fullcalendar plugin in your project.

TODO

• Add more PHPUnit test to achieve maximum coverage.
• Create Bootstrap 3 compatible templates for the form.
• Add functionality to repeat event each week, month and year.
• Add functionality to select weekdays on which event will be repeated.
• Add functionality to repeat event after number of days.
• Add functionality to repeat event certain times.