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Simple iCal Block, by Bram Waasdorp - Joomla Extension Directory

Introduction

Events Calendars, Google Display, Calendars & Events, Events

This simple block fetches events from a public google calendar (or other calendar in iCal format) and displays them in simple list allowing you to fully adapt to your website by applying all kinds of CSS. Google offers some HTML snippets to embed your public Google Calendar into your website. These are good, but if you want to make a few styling tweaks beyond changing a few colors you might want to consider this module.


Simple block to display events from a public google calendar, microsoft office outlook calendar or an other iCal file, in the style of your website.

Module Features

  • Calendar block module to display appointments/events of a public Google calendar or other iCal file.
  • Small footprint, uses only Google ID of the calendar, or ICS link for Outlook, or Url of iCal file, to get event information via iCal
  • Merge more calendars into one module/block
  • Manage events in Google Calendar, or other iCalendar source.
  • Fully adaptable to your website with CSS. Output in unordered list with Bootstrap 4 or 5 listgroup classes and toggle for collapsed details.
  • Choose date / time format in settings screen that best suits your website.
  • Displays per event DTSTART, DTEND, SUMMARY, LOCATION and DESCRIPTION. DTSTART is required other components are optional.
  • Displays most common repeating events. Frequency Yearly, Monthly, Weekly, Daily (not Hourly, Minutely and smaller periods)
  • Can use client timezone for selection and display
  • Basic support for filter on Categories Warning: MS Outlook does not share categories via iCal now. Google and iCloud calendar do not support categories at all. So this will not work with these calendars.

Efficient & easy to use module



Posted on 30 December 2024
Functionality
As stated, it is a simple calendar and it does what it needs to do efficiently : show as many calendars as you want from one module is cool
Ease of use
Super easy to set up the module at the position that you want, it is a module at the same time so not too much complexity for the use
Support
It is very appreciated that its creator added a github repository on which I don't see any open issue, remember it's a free module too
Documentation
Great idea that its creator added a documentation tab directly into the module, if all developers could follow that example
I used this to: Simply showing lists of events on different pages with different ical ids provided. Thanks a lot for providing this for free !
Owner's reply: Thank you for taking the time to write such an extensive and positive review.

For me it felt good to be able to give something back after learning so much from Joomla and the community.
That it is actually used and appreciated positively is the icing on the cake.

Kind regards
Happy New Year

Bram

Simple iCal Block

Version:
2.6.0
Developer:
Bram Waasdorp
Last updated:
Feb 06 2025
6 days ago
Date added:
Aug 13 2022
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
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Compatibility:
J4 J5
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