Looking for a simple flat file events listing system

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I’m putting together a site for a client and I’m looking for a simple, bare bones, event listing system that she can use to add events to easily. The closest thing I’ve found is the following script which is almost perfect but requires a MySQL backend;
http://newsscriptphp.com/eventscriptphp/demo_eventscript.php

What I’m looking for is;

  • Runs on PHP
  • Flat file (any format - XML, CSV etc)
  • Admin interface to allow her to add, edit and remove items
  • Allows events to be listed n per page
  • Past events should be automatically trimmed

I’m very tempted to code this myself as I’ve most of what I need although the budget won’t cover it if I do. Unfortunately the flat file requirement comes from the fact that she has a rather limiting hosting account which also runs several other sites and tools.

If anyone has any great pointers then I’d love to hear about them.
Regards,
Tim.

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Hi tim it’s sort of what I created for photographer friend, but in her case she needed to create a blog type area and its almost the same structure

In her example the items were webyep items within a webyep loop and those specific block had a read more link page. The only difference is in my example I just made it look like a blog layout, and I added a feed-back form on the linked read more pages for people to leave there comments. The layout of your example looks something like a normal webyep loop to me. This is my example:

http://www.sophieyershonphotography.co.uk/blog.php?DOC_INST=19#.UQWn_aUn_A4

and here was my original experiment:

http://www.max-izzat.co.uk/FB/index.php

This sort of has the functionality you may be looking for… is that the sort of thing you were thinking of?

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Did you see this gist I posted a couple weeks ago?

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On Jan 27, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Tim Plumb wrote:

I’m putting together a site for a client and I’m looking for a simple, bare bones, event listing system that she can use to add events to easily. The closest thing I’ve found is the following script which is almost perfect but requires a MySQL backend;
http://newsscriptphp.com/eventscriptphp/demo_eventscript.php

What I’m looking for is;

  • Runs on PHP
  • Flat file (any format - XML, CSV etc)
  • Admin interface to allow her to add, edit and remove items
  • Allows events to be listed n per page
  • Past events should be automatically trimmed

I’m very tempted to code this myself as I’ve most of what I need although the budget won’t cover it if I do. Unfortunately the flat file requirement comes from the fact that she has a rather limiting hosting account which also runs several other sites and tools.

If anyone has any great pointers then I’d love to hear about them.
Regards,
Tim.

Experienced Freeway designer for hire - http://www.freewayactions.com

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