Fast Cal ... Display and manage your calendar events or diary dates!

Fast Cal can be used to manage your calendar events or diary dates and display them on your website in a responsive monthly module, or full year event list. View past and future months, link to files or other websites and show additional event info in a space-saving popup.

Supports multiple users (actions are logged so you can see who posted/edited/deleted events), iCal export, and custom colour-coded categories.

Features

• Add, edit, copy, and delete events using a point-and-click interface
• Supports multiple user accounts
• Log file to track individual user actions
• Search events to easily find the one you want to edit
• Unpublish or publish events with the status toggle switch
• Calendar date picker to change event dates, or mass-delete/copy between selected dates
• Auto-sort events from oldest-newest or newest-oldest
• Custom colour-coded event categories
• Start your week from Sunday or Monday
• Auto-generates an iCal (.ics) file that can be loaded into iPhones, iPads, MS Outlook, Google Calendar, and many more applications with iCalendar support.
• Optional URL to link events to other websites or resources
• Responsive monthly grid and full year event list views
• Customisable with standard CSS - dress-up your calendar any way you like

Download

Downloads are available when you view the full version of this website on a desktop computer.

You can grab the zipped download package from the top of the page. Just scroll up to the blinking download icon and give it a swift click.

Installation

The Fast Cal download pack comes with an example web page setup for reference, but you can see the installation page for more details.

Demo

Check out the back-end demo to see how easy it is to use, OR, see the front-end demos (below) for website integration ideas.

Tips and tricks ... they're also a front-end demos!

Demo 1 - Monthly Calendar

The monthly calendar module is responsive and will change from a weekly grid format to a linear month-long list on small screen devices.

Demo 2 - Full Year Event List 2024

The full year event list is responsive and will change from a 2-column to 1-column layout on small screen devices.

Additional usage - iCalendar (.ics) export

An iCalendar (.ics) file is (re)generated in the "fast_cal/" folder every time you update your Fast Cal events. This is an easy way of distributing a calendar of events to your visitors - just provide a link to the "fast_cal/calendar.ics" file and let them do the rest!

TIP: If you update your calendar frequently, you might want to employ simple cache-busting by adding a query string with a version number to your iCal download href. This should stop browsers "holding on" to old versions of your calendar;

<a href="path/to/fast_cal/calendar.ics?v1">Download The Calendar</a>

You can automate the process by appending a PHP generated timestamp instead;

<a href="path/to/fast_cal/calendar.ics?<?php echo time();?>">Download The Calendar</a>