LuxSoft - LuxCal free web calendar

Description

LuxCal is an innovative web based event calendar for home use and small businesses. It is easy to setup and allows easy and fast management of your calendar events at home, in the office, on business trips or when on holiday. LuxCal is feature rich, has been designed for user-friendliness and will help you to make error-free data inputs. The user interface colors are easy to customize. LuxCal is free "open source" software released under the GNU General Public License.

LuxSoft maintains this calendar to the best of its abilities. Our goal is to keep it error-free and accurate. We will try to correct errors brought to our attention. However, LuxSoft accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the use that is made of the LuxCal calendar after downloading, nor to the content or data of any calendar implemented using LuxCal.

LuxCal Calendar Features

Easy installation and setup (automatic install script)
Very friendly user interface and fast; designed for speed
Multi-user access with username / password protection
User self registration (or via administrator)
Access rights configurable per user (also for public access)
Private events only visible to the owner of the event and not to other users
Various views: year, full month, work month, full week, work week, day, upcoming, changes
Optimized for mobile devices with a limited screen size
All views with full event details 'on-mouseover'
Event filtering on event owner and category in all calendar views. Multiple selections possible
Repeating events (e.g. every other week, every 2nd Monday, every last Sunday of March)
Multi-day events, spanning two or more days (can be combined with repeating)
Individual occurrences of repeating and multi-day events editable
Text search facility with wild cards and search criteria
One or two checkboxes for events in a certain category. E.g. "approved", "done"
Instantly available side bar with upcoming events
Instantly available side bar with To-do list displaying events with a checkbox
Email reminders during event creation and/or a number of days before event due date
Email notifications of calendar changes (added, edited and deleted events)
Event coloring according to event categories (text and background colors per category specified by admin)
Event coloring according to user (background colors per user specified by admin)
Easy to tailor event date format (e.g. dd-mm-yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy, yyyy.mm.dd, ...)
Easy to tailor dates on user interface (e.g. May 24, 2012, 24 May 2012, ...)
Easy to tailor event time format (e.g. 21:30, 21.30, 09:30pm, 09.30PM, ...)
Existing events can be easily copied (duplicated) without re-typing the event data
First day of week selectable: Monday or Sunday
Display of ISO-8601 week numbers (can be enabled/disabled by the admin)
Easy embedding of full calendar in an existing web page (iframe)
Interactive mini calendar (200px x 200px) which can be embedded in your web page. Full month or work month view
Stand-alone sidebar with upcoming events which can be easily integrated in your web page NEW
Single Sign-On when full calendar embedded in a parent web page which requires logging in NEW
Data entry assistance (date, time and color pickers)
Quick, easy and flexible navigation via an "options" panel
Event title, venue and description; description with URL (hyper link) support
iCal file event import/export capability (exchange of event data with other calendars)
CSV file event import capability (e.g. Outlook export)
Multi-language user interface through separate language files (for languages see below)
Default user interface language can be set per registered user
User interface language selectable and remembered per user during the session
Customizable look (through CSS) and layout (settings page)
Functions to optimize and backup the calendar database
RSS feed - upcoming events for the next x days (x can be set by the administrator)
Based on category, events can be excluded from the RSS feeds
The calendar produces valid HTML5 code which allows for better structured HTML pages NEW
Access rights sensitive Help information
PHP6 ready

User Interface Languages

LuxCal user interface texts are defined in separate language files, called language pack, and can easily be changed. Many LuxCal language packs have been produced and made available by LuxCal users. LuxCal calendar downloads contain all currently available language packs. New or updated versions of language packs can be individually downloaded via the Downloads page on this site. The following languages are currently available:

Czech
Danish
German
English
Spanish
Finish
French
Hungarian
Italian
Dutch
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Norwegian
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese

Server / Browser Requirements

LuxCal is written in the PHP scripting language, uses a MySQL database to store its data and thus runs on a server which supports PHP and MySQL. LuxCal produces valid HTML5 code and has been tested with recent versions of Firefox, Chrome and IE.

Requirements:

Server: PHP 5.1 or later
Server: MySQL 5.0 or later
Browser: JavaScript enabled and cookies accepted

License

LuxCal is free "open source" software released under the GNU General Public License. Try out the online live demonstrations on the LuxCal Demo page and, if you like it, download the latest version.