awais-vteams/laravel-fullcalendar

Laravel 6/7/8 helper for FullCalendar.io

v1.2.1 2020-12-23 08:17 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.4.0
• illuminate/support: ^5.0|^6.0|^7.0|^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^9

MIT

• Alex Mills
• Shawn Tunney

README

This is a simple helper package to make generating http://fullcalendar.io in Laravel apps easier.

For fullcalendar <=2.0, please use the v1 version. For v4 onwards, please use the v2 version.

Installing

Require the package with composer using the following command:

composer require awais-vteams/laravel-fullcalendar

Or add the following to your composer.json's require section and composer update

"require": {
	"awais-vteams/laravel-fullcalendar": "^1.0"
}

The provider and Calendar alias will be registered automatically.

You will also need to include fullcalendar.io's files in your HTML.

Usage

Creating Events

Using event():

The simpliest way to create an event is to pass the event information to Calendar::event():

$event = \Calendar::event(
    "Valentine's Day", //event title
    true, //full day event?
    '2015-02-14', //start time, must be a DateTime object or valid DateTime format (http://bit.ly/1z7QWbg)
    '2015-02-14', //end time, must be a DateTime object or valid DateTime format (http://bit.ly/1z7QWbg),
	1, //optional event ID
	[
		'url' => 'http://full-calendar.io'
	]
);

Implementing Event Interface

Alternatively, you can use an existing class and have it implement Asdfx\LaravelFullcalendar\Event. An example of an Eloquent model that implements the Event interface:

class EventModel extends Eloquent implements \Asdfx\LaravelFullcalendar\Event
{

    protected $dates = ['start', 'end'];

    /**
     * Get the event's id number
     *
     * @return int
     */
    public function getId() {
		return $this->id;
	}

    /**
     * Get the event's title
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getTitle()
    {
        return $this->title;
    }

    /**
     * Is it an all day event?
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function isAllDay()
    {
        return (bool)$this->all_day;
    }

    /**
     * Get the start time
     *
     * @return DateTime
     */
    public function getStart()
    {
        return $this->start;
    }

    /**
     * Get the end time
     *
     * @return DateTime
     */
    public function getEnd()
    {
        return $this->end;
    }
}

IdentifiableEvent Interface

If you wish for your existing class to have event IDs, implement \Asdfx\LaravelFullcalendar\IdentifiableEvent instead. This interface extends \Asdfx\LaravelFullcalendar\Event to add a getId() method:

class EventModel extends Eloquent implements \Asdfx\LaravelFullcalendar\IdentifiableEvent
{

	// Implement all Event methods ...

    /**
     * Get the event's ID
     *
     * @return int|string|null
     */
    public function getId();

}

Additional Event Parameters

If you want to add additional parameters to your events, there are two options:

Using Calendar::event()

Pass an array of 'parameter' => 'value' pairs as the 6th parameter to Calendar::event():

$event = \Calendar::event(
    "Valentine's Day", //event title
    true, //full day event?
    '2015-02-14', //start time, must be a DateTime object or valid DateTime format (http://bit.ly/1z7QWbg)
    '2015-02-14', //end time, must be a DateTime object or valid DateTime format (http://bit.ly/1z7QWbg),
	1, //optional event ID
	[
		'url' => 'http://full-calendar.io',
		//any other full-calendar supported parameters
	]
);

Add an getEventOptions method to your event class

<?php
class CalendarEvent extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model implements \Asdfx\LaravelFullcalendar\Event
{
	//...

	/**
     * Optional FullCalendar.io settings for this event
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getEventOptions()
    {
        return [
            'color' => $this->background_color,
			//etc
        ];
    }

	//...
}

Create a Calendar

To create a calendar, in your route or controller, create your event(s), then pass them to Calendar::addEvent() or Calendar::addEvents() (to add an array of events). addEvent() and addEvents() can be used fluently (chained together). Their second parameter accepts an array of valid FullCalendar Event Object parameters.

Sample Controller code:

$events = [];

$events[] = \Calendar::event(
    'Event One', //event title
    false, //full day event?
    '2015-02-11T0800', //start time (you can also use Carbon instead of DateTime)
    '2015-02-12T0800', //end time (you can also use Carbon instead of DateTime)
	0 //optionally, you can specify an event ID
);

$events[] = \Calendar::event(
    "Valentine's Day", //event title
    true, //full day event?
    new \DateTime('2015-02-14'), //start time (you can also use Carbon instead of DateTime)
    new \DateTime('2015-02-14'), //end time (you can also use Carbon instead of DateTime)
	'stringEventId' //optionally, you can specify an event ID
);

$eloquentEvent = EventModel::first(); //EventModel implements Asdfx\LaravelFullcalendar\Event

$calendar = \Calendar::addEvents($events) //add an array with addEvents
    ->addEvent($eloquentEvent, [ //set custom color fo this event
        'color' => '#800',
    ])->setOptions([ //set fullcalendar options
		'firstDay' => 1
	])->setCallbacks([ //set fullcalendar callback options (will not be JSON encoded)
        'viewRender' => 'function() {alert("Callbacks!");}'
    ]);

return view('hello', compact('calendar'));

Sample View

Then to display, add the following code to your View:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.29.1/moment.min.js"></script>
    
    <link href='//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fullcalendar@5.5.0/main.min.css' rel='stylesheet' />
    <script src='//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fullcalendar@5.5.0/main.min.js'></script>


    <style>
        /* ... */
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    {!! $calendar->calendar() !!}
    {!! $calendar->script() !!}
</body>
</html>

Note: The output from calendar() and script() must be non-escaped, so use {!! and !!} (or whatever you've configured your Blade compiler's raw tag directives as).

The script() can be placed anywhere after calendar(), and must be after fullcalendar was included.

This will generate (in February 2015):