Support Question: How can I expose my drupal calendar (block) on a static html site?

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Posted by kmillecam-gdo on February 25, 2008 at 5:47pm

Hi all,

Hope you don't mind me brainstorming with you but I figured:
1) this has proven to be a collection of bright Drupal heads.
2) i may actually get a response here ... no such luck in the Drupal forums.

Anyway, I'm looking for a way to expose the calendar block (from one site) as a block on a static HTML site.

I'm thinking I might have to write a module that periodically dumps the calendar HTML into a static file that can be included using a server-side include or javascript.

Any one else have a better idea?

Thanks,
Kevin

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that sounds like the best idea

Posted by kyle_mathews on February 25, 2008 at 7:55pm
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Write a module to dump the html sounds like by far the best idea. If the other site were a Drupal site there might be some way of transfering the calender info over via the services module.

Kyle Mathews

Kyle Mathews

other possibilities

Posted by webchuck on February 25, 2008 at 9:12pm
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I think the module that does periodic dumps might not be a bad way to go, but you'll have to worry about stale data, or run cron very frequently. Also, how static is this other site? No php available?

A couple other options:

  • Pure javascript option - Do an AJAX call to the Drupal site hosting the calendar, then use a regular expression to extract the calendar HTML only, and display that HTML. This guarantees that the content will be fresh, but the JS isn't terribly straight-forward.
  • I-Frame option - Create a simple module (or function in template.php) to print the calendar block to the page without the theme, then call that page in an i-frame on your static website.

I don't know that these are any better than the first, but it may be easier than writing to a file on a different server.

  • Chuck

Thanks guys. This gives me

Posted by kmillecam-gdo on February 25, 2008 at 10:05pm
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Thanks guys.

This gives me something to chew on.

I'll probably go the "save HTML to a file" route initially -- knowing that it'll never reflect current information -- and maybe look into the AJAX or iFrame solutions later.

Kevin

Did you get your calendar working?

Posted by stompersly on May 8, 2008 at 5:57pm
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You could also export the calendar using the views I-Cal if you had something to load and display the I-Cal data.
Never tried this with a calendar but we have also done alot of other data with RSS feeds and then use flash to display the data.