Tried a few others, but this is the cats meow :)

I especially like the color coded categories as it is so much more user friendly. All the views look nice with the exception of the daily view, but that is just my personal opinion.

Vey simple to work with from both a front-end and back-end perspective.

This is probably the best Events calendar I've ever used and seen. There were a few kinks in 1.6 but now in 1.6.2 it really has kicked it up a notched with a Mini Cal, Upcoming events and Searching mods; it's really moving on up!

I enjoy this Event calendar so much because I donn't have to hardcode anything to fit my site, and it looks beautiful. The Weekly view is still sketchy (but definitely unlike ANY other event calendar out now) and the Editing events in the frontend don't work yet, BUT with all the work these guys are putting into the project there will be a fix in no time.

Great job!

The installation of eventCal 1.6 went without any problem, I can create new categories and events without a problem.

It looks like a real good product with just a bit of room for improvement. For example, repetitive events cannot occur bi-weekly.

As a former extCalendar user I like this component very much. In my opinion it is more stable than extCalendar and has besides the lack of a real mini-calendar module, a good backend handling of events and categories.

What I like most is that you can assign "public", "registered" and "special" privileges to event categories. This was one of the things which was missing in extCalendar.

What still has to be done:
- mini calendar module for a quick calendar view on e.g. a front page of a website
- solving some minor bugs

Some things are still not really perfect, but I think that is just a matter of time. I installed the latest version (1.6.1) of this component without any problems whatsoever and it works fine for me.

I installed the component. I got a lot of warnings of the component trying to rename and copying files. For the rest the outcome was that the component was uploaded succesfully.

When I tried to open the component to make a category I was told that the dutch.php was not found. I solved this for the moment by copying the german.php to dutch.php.

I was now able to make a category. After this I made an event. I was not able however to publish this event.

When opening the component in the frontend the message was:
Der Event Kalender wurde ungültig aufgerufen.Der Vorgang wurde abgebrochen!Sollte dieser Fehler erneut auftreten wende Dich bitte an die Administrator.

I would be nice if the component would work in the future!

in addition to getting all the errors listed by the prevous reviewers, creating a new event results this way:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method mosEventCal_Event::reset() in /home/riverwes/public_html/components/com_eventcal/eventcal.class.php on line 92

No mod, no easy front end event submission? Not a viable replacement for extcal.

Installation was OK but when tried to access eventCal got the following error due to missing english.php language file (english.php file is provided separately);

"Warning: main(/home/mysite.com/components/com_eventcal/language/english.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysite.com/components/com_eventcal/eventcal.class.php on line 19

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/home/mysite.com/components/com_eventcal/language/english.php'
(include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mysite.com/components/com_eventcal/eventcal.class.php on line 19"

After added (ftp-ed) the language file manually errors went away but on front-page I kept getting the following message.

"EventCal was called illegalyThe process was abortedIf this error occurs again please contact your administrator or
directly write an email to the developer of this component (Kay Messerschmidt) kay_messers@web.de"

Created event category (birthday), added events (birthdays) made sure both category and events are published but events won't show up when viewing calendar.

Cons:
(frontend) No way to select/jump to a particular date or year.

This looks as though it could have real potential, however, I have so far not been able to get it running correctly due to conflicts with the "description" field.
Have seen this problem before in another component (can't remember which).
Unable to find any support in english as yet.