PHP Event Calendar - absolutely horrendous


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reminisce

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posted on 8/2/2008 at 02:46 AM

absolutely horrendous

i'm terribly sorry (and also very frustrated). I'm sure your calendar is precisely what i am looking for, namely a calendar scheduling app that can display as a small mini calendar in my web site's sidebar, which when clicked opens to a scheduling page...

but I have had nothing but grief since trying to install it on my apache 2.2 server.

initially I had the magic_quotes_gpc in php.ini set to off, which I corrected easily enough

I then ran up against some difficulty importing the table into mysql, necessitating installing phpadmin just for that purpose.

after all that, I encountered the bug that I can't progress beyond index.php -- entering anything at all into the 3 install directories results in the page apparently reloading without any error prompts at all, and resetting to the default cl_files etc settings.

filling in full paths fails to correct this.

I then went on to manually set the paths as discussed on this forum in global.php (which was in my calendar root, and had to be moved to the cl_files/data subdir) and in the show.php
I did not have a calendar.php anywhere in sight, and figured it was probably calendar.dat renamed to php, and placed in the cl_files directory
I then copied all the files in the tmp dir to the cl_files/data directory (after being prompted one at a time by the installer for missing files) (without over-writing), and moved the install.php and install_dat.php out of the root

now when I start the index.php I get the two demo calendars, but I can't click on the dates or events. And when I click on the control panel link I get brought to the admin login screen

The problem is I cannot login with admin/demo (login incorrect)

I'm guessing that the admin account has not yet been created.

two questions

1) how to create the admin account?

2) how is it possible for the installer scripts to be so incredibly nonfunctional, yet not have any documentation on how to do a full manual install?

please recognise that the script you have written is clearly working on some systems, and not on others. As such I eagerly await the day a universal script comes out that works for everyone, but in the interrim there should be a manual install guide to smooth the bumps over for the rest of us unlucky people who cant get it working right first time around, instead of having us trawl for hours through these forums to fix things one small step at a time :(