There are many reasons why you would want to display a calendar. You can use it to display upcoming events, to keep a diary, or to show a timetable. Recently, for example, I combined a calendar with an online store for a client to book meetings and receive payments more intuitively.
Google calendar is probably what springs to mind when people think of calendars online. There is a very good plugin called jquery-week-calendar
that shows a week with events in a fashion similar to Google's calendar.
Its homepage is at .
In this chapter, we will use the jquery-week-calendar
plugin to create and edit normal and recurring events.
To get the latest copy of the plugin, go to and get the highest-numbered file. The examples in this chapter are done with version 1.2.0.
Download the library and extract it so that there is a directory named jquery-weekcalendar-1.2.0
in the root of your demo directory.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics: