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Calico

While working on the final project for my web design course, I was looking for a PHP script that could display a calendar stored in a text file. I couldn’t use a database because the server for our client didn’t have any, and I needed something extremely simple, about as simple as the markup for the final page itself. Upon realizing that there wasn’t a single script out there as simple as what I needed, I decided to make my own.

I managed to write most of it in a weekend and I’m very happy with the result. I call it “Calico” like a calico cat, those cats you see with orange, black, and white. The script reads events stored in lines from a text file and then outputs a list or tables of the events, that can then be styled with CSS. I still need to write up more stuff on how to use it, but if you want to see it you can visit the Calico webpage. Let me know if you would be interested in trying it out, and if you ever need to use it, go right ahead, it’s free. Also, if you have any tips for creating a file editing interface (for editing the text file that stores the events), let me know. It would really make Calico better.