UNL Event Publisher

The UNL Event Publisher is an open source project which runs the calendar at http://events.unl.edu/. The project was built by the UNL Web Developer Network, and is maintained by the WDN and other contributors. Contact the project discussion list or the project lead Brett Bieber at brett.bieber@gmail.com.

Features

• Open Source BSD License
• hCalendar Support
• RSS Feeds
• ics iCalendar format exports
• Multiple Users
• Multiple Calendars
• Standards Compliant
• Output caching for speed

System Requirements

• PHP 5
• Any database supported by MDB2
• The PEAR command line installer.
• Apache Web Server for a REST based calendar.

Architecture

The event publisher is separated into three separate parts -

• UNL_UCBCN The backend system which interacts with the database.
• UNL_UCBCN_Frontend A public frontend users view events through.
• UNL_UCBCN_Manager A management portion event publishers will use to manage and publish their events.

Installation

For more information see the UNL Event Publisher Installation document for detailed installation information.

Quick installation:

pear upgrade pear
pear channel-discover phpsavant.com
pear channel-discover pear.unl.edu
pear install unl/UNL_EventPublisher
pear run-scripts unl/UNL_UCBCN
pear run-scripts unl/UNL_UCBCN_Manager
pear run-scripts unl/UNL_UCBCN_Frontend

Go to the full UNL Event Publisher Installation documentation.

Support & Assistance

The UNL Web Developer Network supports the UNL Event Publisher, please use the Issues link to report any bugs.

The WDN uses an IRC chatroom on irc.freenode.net #unl_wdn

Contact the project discussion list or the project lead Brett Bieber at brett.bieber@gmail.com.