Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

Hour 15. Using Events and Calendars

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Use the Contributed Date and Calendar Modules

• Implement an Event-Driven Calendar

• Create a Calendar to Organize Nodes by Date

• Modify Calendar Views

Introduction

Many websites need to manage a variety of dates and events. They can be websites for organizations that have meetings or other gatherings, or they can be community websites that consolidate events from a variety of sources. Managing events and calendars can be remarkably difficult. Many tools exist that accomplish parts of the task, but many of them have limitations.

Drupal provides sophisticated calendar and date management through its own structure, the Views module, the Content Construction ...