Many organizations have events, and a calendar is a very visual way of indicating what is going on and when. The built-in ExpressionEngine calendar functionality is limited (for example, it does not allow recurring appointments). However, you can use it to display event titles with clickable links for more information.
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If a calendar is a key part of your website, you may be interested in checking out Solspace's calendar module (at the time of publication, it is not yet available for ExpressionEngine 2). http://www.solspace.com/software/detail/calendar/. The module contains support for more sophisticated calendar functionality such as recurring appointments.
In this chapter, you are going to use the built-in functionality of ExpressionEngine to build a simple events calendar that is easy to post to using the Publish page in the control panel. You will use the jQuery module to display more information when an event is clicked. Finally, you will also be introduced...