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In the previous part of this series we saw how to link fullCalendar via CakePHP to a MySQL events table. This is nice, but it’s only really useful if all the Create/Update and Delete actions on your events happen somewhere else.

Obviously – you’ll want a way to manipulate events directly from the calendar control on the screen.

FullCalendar has excellent support for event manipulation. In this post we’ll see one way to integrate this with CakePHP, …

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I needed to integrate a calendar into my application.

This being a CakePHP application, I started looking for a good calendar helper – but found none that I liked enough to integrate. Luckily, I then stumbled upon the excellent fullCalendar project which is everything I wanted:

• Extensible – let me change events easily.
• Provides lazy loading of events.
• Provides for visual differentiation of events based on their type.
• Uses multiple displays (daily, weekly, monthly).
• Lets

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