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In this tutorial, I am going to exhibit the code to create a calendar-based event
PHP Event management system. I have used Bootstrap to display events in a calendar.
Management System
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PHP Freelancer There are already many event management libraries in PHP available in the
market. Google Calendar API provides best support to create an event
management system by using PHP client library.

Attendize is another event management system available in PHP. It will be a

suitable solution for creating an online ticket selling and event management
system with PHP. It provides advanced features for organizing events and
managing its attendees.

Integrating third-party API for implementing event management system is little

bit a complex process at a beginning stage. So, I prefer to start by
understanding the event management concept to build with custom
development. This article will be helpful in this regard.

About Event management system example

This example code allows users to add events dynamically via calendar
interface. The events are stored in a database and loaded onto the calendar as
per the date accordingly.

When the user click on the date box of the calendar interface, a JavaScript
prompt will be displayed to enter the event. After confirmation, the data is sent
via AJAX and processed in PHP.

The jQuery Bootstrap based FullCalendar library is used to create this calendar
event management system. And the suitable library directives are used to
enable calendar navigation and make it editable.

The dynamic data from the database is requested via AJAX and read as a
JSON object to plot on the landing page calendar view.

Create calendar interface using PHP

A calendar interface is created for this PHP event management example to add
and manage events. I created HTML with a target container to render calendar
by loading FullCalendar.

In this example, I have used jQuery AJAX, Bootstrap and the FullCalendar
libraries. Below code shows the HTML with the included library dependencies.

By initializing FullCalendar library the calendar interface will be rendered in the

target HTML. In a previous tutorial, we have already seen how to display
calendar and load data using FullCalendar library.
body {
font-family: Arial;
}
h1#demo-title {
margin: 30px 0px 80px 0px;
text-align: center;
}

#event-action-response {
background-color: #5ce4c6;
border: #57d4b8 1px solid;
padding: 10px 20px;
border-radius: 3px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
color: #333;
display: none;
}

.fc-day-grid-event .fc-content {
background: #586e75;
color: #FFF;
}

.fc-event, .fc-event-dot {
background-color: #586e75;
}

.fc-event {

Add new or load existing events onto the

calendar
After rendering calendar interface in a landing page, the existing events will be
tiled on the corresponding day cells.

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By selecting each day a JavaScript prompt box will be shown to the user to
enter the event title. Once the user click OK, then the event will be added to the
database for the selected date. For that, we have to set selectable: true to
enable calendar day selection for the user. By default this will be false.

The below script shows how to initialize FullCalendar library and call the fetch,
create, edit actions via AJAX . In this script, a calendar instance is created and
used to reload event data on each update.

The added calendar events could be edited by setting editable: true while
initializing FullCalendar library. As this directive is set in this example, the added
events could be moved from one date to another by using drag and drop.

FullCalendar allows to customize its header to enable controls to view by Month,

Week and Day. The default is the Month view. This explicit customization will
help to locate the left right positioning of the calendar header element.

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var calendar = $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
editable:true,
events: 'getEvent.php',
selectable:true,
selectHelper:true,
select: function(start,allDay)
{
var Event = prompt("Add Event");
if(Event)
{
var Date = $.fullCalendar.formatDate(start, "Y-MM-DD
$("#event-action-response").hide();
$.ajax({
url:"addEvent.php",
type:"POST",
data:{title:Event, start:Date},
success:function()
{
calendar.fullCalendar('refetchEvents');
$("#event-action-response").html("Event added S
$("#event-action-response").show();
}
})
}

About FullCalendar library options used in this example

FullCalendar library is created with some defaults for its directive options. It
allows to override those defaults by setting explicit options during initialization.

I have set the following options while intializing FullCalendar for this PHP event
management example. This table describes how the options are used in this
example.

Options Description
selectable To allow user to select calendar cells by clicking or dragging.

Calendar events data source. It can be set as an array of static

events values. In this example, I have called server-side code via AJAX to
set the dynamic data for the event source.

This is Boolean and the default value is false. When it is true, a

selectHelper
placeholder event will be drawn while dragging events.

This option is to specify or define a callback function. This function

select
will be invoked while selecting the calendar cell
This is Boolean and the default value is false. This option
editable
determines whether the calendar events are editable or not.

This is a callback to be invoked when the user drop events into a

eventDrop
calendar cell.

PHP Code to create and fetch events

This PHP code shown below is used to read or store the event data by
accessing the database. The db.php file included in both of the below code
snippet is used to create the MySQL connection object.

In this example, I have used prepared statement for handling database query
execution. Using prepared statement is a base practice which mainly helps to
protect the application from SQL injection.

PHP Code to store event

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This PHP code is called via AJAX by confirming the added event to save to the
database. The event title and the start date are passed through the AJAX call
and handled in this PHP file.

The query is created using PDO and the parameters are bound with the query
statement.

<?php
require_once "db.php";
if (isset($_POST["title"])) {
$query = "INSERT INTO events (title, event_date) VALUES (:title, :ev
$statement = $connect->prepare($query);
$statement->execute(array(
':title' => $_POST['title'],
':event_date' => $_POST['start']
));
}
?>

PHP Code to fetch event

This code will be called after loading calendar on the landing page.

The SQL query is used to read the event data which will be stored into an array.
This event array will be encoded into JSON format.

By printing this event JSON data at the end of this script, it will be a response to
the AJAX call. The response data will be set as the event source for rendering
into the calendar cells.

<?php
require_once "db.php";
$data = array();
$query = "SELECT * FROM events ORDER BY id";
$statement = $connect->prepare($query);
$statement->execute();
$result = $statement->fetchAll();
foreach ($result as $row) {
$data[] = array(
'id' => $row["id"],
'title' => $row["title"],
'start' => $row["event_date"]
);
}
echo json_encode($data);
?>

PHP Code to edit event

Event edit is planned for this example to move events from the one date to
another. FullCalendar interface enables drag and drop by setting editable: true.

While dragging events from one calendar cell to another, this PHP code will be
called via AJAX. In the UPDATE query the modified date is set to update the
event start date with the reference of the event id.

<?php
require_once "db.php";
if (isset($_POST["event_id"])) {
$query = "UPDATE events SET event_date =:event_date WHERE id =:event_
$statement = $connect->prepare($query);
$statement->execute(array(
':event_id' => $_POST['event_id'],
':event_date' => $_POST['start']
));
}
?>

File Structure
This example event management system is created with the following file
structure. The PHP files getEvent.php, addEvent.php and editEvent.php in the
project root are used to fetch and store the events.

The DB configuration and the connect handle creation are done with the db.sql
file. And, this file will be included wherever it is required to use the database
connect object.

Event database’s create statement with data dumps are added with
the events.sql script.

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I have included the FullCalendar library files with the minified version of the
jQuery and moment JS library files. These are the dependencies used to run
this event management system with a calendar interface.

Database script
This script shows the CREATE statement of the database table events. It
contains minimal event information that is title and the event start date.

Import this script inyour PHP environment where you deployed this example
code. After importing this file, change the database configuration in db.php to
run this event management example

--
-- Table structure for table `events`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `events`;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `events` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`event_date` date NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=10 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

PHP Event management system example output

This event management calendar interface displays the loaded events on its
corresponding day cells. These events are dynamic from the database which
are rendered on top of the calendar layer.

Figure shows the Previous/Next navigation controls to move back and forth on
the calendar. The today button will be enabled when the user navigated from the
current day.

By dragging an event card from one cell and dropping it into another cell, the
event date can be modified. On the drop action, a JavaScript confirmation box
will be shown to the user to approve the edit action.

Figure shows the event edit by using drag and drop and also displays the
confirmation box to approve.

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Conclusion
Hope this article has helped you to gain good knowledge that is required to build
a PHP Event management application. The main objective is to guide you to
build a base skeleton application that will serve as a starting point for some
great event management system.

The interactive calendar interface is provided for easy handling of events, to

create and manage actions. The database used in this example code is
purposely created as simple as possible with minimal data.

Let me know if you have any questions or doubts in building an event

management application in the comments below and I will be glad to answer
them.

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Comments to “Create AJAX-Based PHP Event

Management System with Bootstrap”

Sidhartha
June 30, 2019 at 8:18 am

Thanks again Mam for another precious effort for us.

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Vincy
July 1, 2019 at 10:19 am

Welcome Sidhartha.

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Rufai
July 10, 2019 at 9:48 pm

great work,can you please load a project on how to build a dashboard in php

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Vincy
July 12, 2019 at 10:16 am

Thank you Rufai. Sure, I will add it soon.

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July 21, 2019 at 11:39 am

Madam i want major php project

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Vincy
July 22, 2019 at 6:09 pm

Merryl,

I couldn’t understand your request. Do you want me to work on a

major PHP project? or otherwise?

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cop
August 22, 2019 at 7:08 pm

i like the way you do things.

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Vincy
June 25, 2020 at 12:38 pm

Thank you cop :-)

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