THE WEB CALENDAR PROJECT

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THE WEB CALENDAR PROJECT

• Presented by Jasmine Thomas
• Supervisor John Ebden

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MOTIVATION

• Need for a common platform on which the events
  held within the University can be advertised
• Staff Events List Mailing List
• Students Web Calendar
• Options were to create something new or configure
  the existing technologies to work together

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My Project

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EVENTS LIST MAILING LIST
Staff member submits event notification as an
e-mail to the mailing list moderator
List moderator approves the event notice, and
submits it
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Mailing list archive
IMAP mail server
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Event notice is mailed out to all subscribers of
the list and it is archived
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WEB CALENDAR
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Database
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Event notice stored in a backend database, held
for approval by calendar administrator
Student logs onto Web Calendar, hosted on the
Universitys Official site and submits an event
notification
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Administrator logs on And approves the event
notice, event notice is now viewable on the Web
Calendar
Web Calendar
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Component Integration
Database
Mailing list archive
web server
web server
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PROBLEM ENVIRONMENT

• Events List Mailing List (Mailman)
• Web Calendar HTML, Perl Scripts, MySQL
  database.
• Apache Web server Unix systems

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TECHNOLOGIES USED
Mailman
MySQL
Database
Mailing list archive
PHP/PERL
Apache web servers on Unix box
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PHP

• Low and smooth learning curve
• String manipulations capabilities (Regular
  Expressions)
• Ease with which it can interface with databases
  (MySQL)
• Intelligent error reporting debugging easier
• Compatibility with Apache
• Cross platform build on Windows and port it to
  Unix

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Events-L available at http//listserv.ru.ac.za/pip
ermail/events-l/
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ARCHIVE
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ARCHIVE
MONTHLY SUBMISSIONS