How to create a dynamic event calendar in php?

Event calendar provides a user-friendly way to list events by dates. It helps the user to find the events quickly for a specific date. The event calendar is a very useful element to display events datewise in a user-friendly way on the web application. There are various jQuery plugins are available to integrate the event calendar on the website. But if you want to list events dynamically on the large calendar, the event calendar is the best option and it can be easily implemented using PHP.

PHP Event Calendar helps to fetch the dynamic data from the database and list events in the date cell of the calendar. Using the PHP event calendar you can add the event to the calendar along with the respective date. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create an event calendar using jQuery, Ajax, PHP, and MySQL.

The following functionality will be implemented to build event calendar with PHP.

• Fetch events data from the MySQL database.
• Create a large calendar with HTML and CSS.
• Display events in the date cell of the calendar.
• Navigate between the months and years using jQuery and Ajax.

Before getting started, take a look at the file structure of the PHP event calendar script.

php_event_calendar/
├── index.php
├── functions.php
├── dbConfig.php
├── js/
│   └── jquery.min.js
└── css/
    └── style.css

Create Database Table

To display the dynamic events in the calendar, the event data need to be stored in the database. The following SQL creates an events table with some basic fields in the MySQL database.

CREATE TABLE `events` [
 `id` int[11] NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `title` varchar[255] COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
 `date` date NOT NULL,
 `created` datetime NOT NULL,
 `modified` datetime NOT NULL,
 `status` tinyint[1] NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 COMMENT '1=Active | 0=Inactive',
 PRIMARY KEY [`id`]
] ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

Database Configuration [dbConfig.php]

This file is used to connect with the database using PHP and MySQL. Specify the database host [$dbHost], username [$dbUsername], password [$dbPassword], and name [$dbName] as per your database credentials.