this one is good because it DOESN'T have all the extra stuff. Didn't need all the bells & whistles of Jevents for instance. Had a small problem with the display of the times of day but quickly found the solution on the author's forum. So far the only thing won't work for me is having two different easycalendar categories displaying events on the same calendar - havent' figured out that one yet. some extra flexibility with configuration would be nice so I wouldn't have to edit the files directly. Like the component very much!

Easy Calendar holds true to it's name! Quick to set up and simple to use. I especially liked that I was able to use css to make different categories appear as different colors!

Hi ! I was looking for a simple calendar to display authors' birthdays and short announcements (I run a French poetry/arts site). I did not need extensive toolbars or frontend access, simply a calendar that would work right out of the box and do its job.

Easy Calendar was exactly what I needed. Installation was easy and straightforward, everything worked first time around. Modifications to the css and to the language files were simple to do and effective. I had to make one change to the php/html file to augment the number of characters of the event for display in the main calendar (found where to do that in the joomla-addons forum), again it went without any problem.

All and all, Easy Calendar does everything it claims it will do. It is a fantastic extension if you don't need anything sophisticated.

It was easy to enter it on the demo page, but it created an awful output... see the demo page 1st of September.
It is a pity otherwise it's really nice

Nice idea. Works in Internet Explorer. Does not work in Firefox.
Need to have sunday as beginning of weeks instead of monday.

Very nice calendar - easy to install. One suggestion: maybe something to allow a different day of the week to be the beginning (in the USA, calendars start on Sunday, not Monday).

I don't know enough to comment on the more technical aspects of this extension, but it was exactly what I needed from the start. And when I wanted a slight adjustment that was beyond my know-how, I emailed Adam and he took care of it within minutes. (Sorry to put you on the spot, Adam.) By my standards, that's as good as it gets.

If ever there was a case for CSS-only layouts being totally unnecessary, then this is it. Previous commenters have mentioned the calendar layout, and that is where the components falls down.

The layout is done without tables - now if ever there was a valid, reasonable, sensible time to use a table for layout, then a calendar is it! It *is* tabular data!

As it stands, the layout is done through CSS in absolute pixel sizes (% or ems would be better), which is completely unnecessary, when HTML tables are designed to display this kind of information without messing up the display on a narrower or wider screen than the designer's.

Sorry, but this ruins an otherwise useful component.

This is a nice and easy to work with component.

Works perfectly after installing without any trouble.
Probably a module showing the events might trigger further success of this component.

But since it is published under the "Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 License" doesn't that mean that even changing the CSS file is actually disallowed?!?

Regards,
Friedel

Owner's reply:
No, you can implement whatever change you like, for your personal use.



You just can't redistribute them.

Very simple. Up and running very quickly. No bells and whistles and configuation is very limited. Some nice wishlist features would be customizing the format of date and time. M:D:Y vs D:M:Y and 24 hour vs 12 hour time standards. Also being able to adjust the calendar to fit your template screen resolution would be good. I have a template at 800 x 600 and Sunday wraps around to a second row with the current beta version of the component.

Other than that...a very good simple, easy to use, out of the box calendar without any apparent bugs. I LOVE the css and how clean and unencumbered it is (ExtCalendar, take note). Great start!

Owner's reply:
The entire layout is completely stylable through css, so it shouldn't be hard to adjust the calendar width in the css as well.



As for date format, you can define what output you would like in the Easy Calendar language file:

define('EC_DATE_FORMAT', '%d-%m-%Y');

define('EC_TIME_FORMAT', '%H:%M');



You can use anything that's mentioned here: http://www.php.net/strftime

Installed easy, clean and neat. A simple yet elegant calendar that serves the need of a simple no frills calendar that serves its purpose. Good Work.