Silverstripe integration

Scheduler Javascript
#1

Hi,

I’ve been thinking about integrating dhtmlxScheduler as Silverstripe CMS module. Everything else is quite simple except database integration. Silverstripe uses database abstraction such as:

class Scheduler extends DataObject {

    static $db = array(
            'event_id' => 'Int',
            'event_name' => 'Varchar',
            'start_date' => 'SSDatetime',
            'end_date' => 'SSDatetime',
            'details' => 'Text',
    );
.
.
.

This will include forementioned fields and db fields that Scheduler class extends. My question is, as I don’t know too much about programming and DB programming in php, what would be the most logical way to integrate Silverstripe database usage with dhtmlxscheduler, since I don’t want to have a separate database for the calendar and silverstripe installation. Benefits of using Silverstripe DB system would also, hopefully, be automatic multiple calendar support.

#2

There are two possible solutions

a) write your own data-source class , which must implement 4 base methods ( get record, add record, update record, delete record ) and calls Silverstripe for all such actions instead of direct DB interactions. ( it will require a bit of PHP knowledge, but nothing really complicated )

b) you can discard server side connectors at all. Scheduler receives data as xml, and it doesn’t matter is such xml generated by the connector’s code, or by your custom solution