Laravel + Calendar: How to Deal With Recurring Events

Another demo-project - how to save calendar events that occur daily/weekly/monthly.

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[anandchoudharyofficial]

Exactly what I'm searching for I got from you. Thank you so much. You saved my 1 Week coding.

[JeremyStreich]

I've done calendars before and implemented them in a similar fashion. Potential improvements:
Add an option for Repeats Every X Days/Weeks/Months/Years.
Require a "Repeats Until" field, so you know when/where to stop inserting (using current method) and for your query if/when you move away from multiple inserts and store exceptions instead.

[prakashmalaviya]

I had implemented something similar without reaping database entries for a single event, so the idea is for yearly, monthly, weekly, or any custom days just need to enter only a single DB entry. Right now in your case, it will add lots of records on the database lets say if any event repeats daily for a year then you have to enter 365 records which is I think not a good idea on the DB level.

[mananapka]

It is possible not to create record of the future events? For example it will display that you have a monthly events but it should not create records yet. Because it will consume a lot of data in the database.

[AdrianStoker]

Hi there, I have added another column to the database called number_repeats, and added that to the loop to loop through that many times, for example, I only want a monthly event created for 5 months. That's fine.


You have daily, weekly, and monthly events here, but how do I apply to yearly events, like birthday's for example?

[AvaneeshKumarSingh]

There are events that are recurring in nature but dates keep changing such as festivals from different countries like holi, diwali, etc.
Is there any provision for this too? I mean changing the dates every year for the same event as there is no other change than date.

[davidomalley]

Is it possible to do this inside QuickAdmin panel using the CRUD creator? I'm having issues trying to do so

[Dzonikblo]

Hi Povilas, nice approach, I done similar,
but I am not sure, is it ok to do hundred query inserts in database at once? Tnx

[WillanCorreia]

I have a question, but i opened a github issue to explain it better, if you can help... Thanks for the great project!

[JamesAutoDude]

What if they delete the main event (#1 for instance), but still have other existing events from the series? I think it would break at that point off the event_id field? May be better to use a series ID and random generate it, assign to all related events. Then if you delete even the main one, it'll still work

Laravel has a built in id generator too

[YoosufMo]

Very bad approach, this should not create database records, the best option is having some sort of metadata and recurring via a job