This hacking around here should no longer be needed, I just packed it into a normal widget: Event Calendar Widget

This is a small modification for the great "Event Calendar" module. It will replace the default CalendarWidget with a version that is using the Datepicker widget from jQuery UI.

The widget will request a list of events for the currently visible month. Subsequently, only dates which have at least one event associated with them are selectable.

Unfortunately, the possibility to select months and weeks directly in the widget are gone. Maybe one could readd that feature with the Daterangepicker plugin.

When downloading the archive, it should suffice to overwrite the current module folder with the provided one. For the patchfile, it is necessary to get all the image files from the archive (in the images/ and css/ui-smoothness/images/ folders).

Unfortunately, the file management in the forum is messed up. I cannot remove the old jquery-ui.patch, so please ignore it.

Not sure I understand, so here are my guesses

"Have you ever tried LiveCalendarWidget?"
-- Yes, works great, but I do not see the point. Static is fine, events aren't changed that often.

"Does this patch break LiveCalendarWidget?"
-- No idea!

Ah, I see. That's a good idea, generally speaking, but since I usually have a bottleneck in latency and not bandwith, I try to avoid anything "Live" as much as possible and get all necessary data at once. But that's of course just my situation here.

There is not much to this patch here, after all. I wanted to use the jQuery UI datepicker() for a more homogenous look with the rest of the widgets, and that's it.

Yeah, my experience is that it's pretty snappy, but I am on a fairly fast connection, too.

Also, when you feed a static array to a calendar, you have to somehow provide limits on either end of the date range, but making a call to the database, you're always sure to get that set of months.

I also wonder if a several asynchronous queries for one month are more better performing than one huge one up front?