Wiki Calendar?

monkeyg0d

Hey folks, just wondering if there was a template, or any reccomendations for any kind of Wiki calendar for tracking the passage of days etc.. in the game world.

Doing a sandbox thing and it would be infinitely useful for the groups to see who went out and returned when etc...

cheers!

Curufea

Heh, just thinking about my campaign and how non-linear time is in it that this wouldn't help much :)

Personally, I recommend a "semantic list-based calendar":http://www.cssnewbie.com/list-based-css-calendar/ as it's easier to maintain a list than a table. However custom styles aren't available in the wiki except on a tag by tag attribute basis - which makes this kind of calendar unreadable to edit.

The colour attributes in tables for Textile aren't implemented either, so you basically have a choice of two-colour readable textile or multicolour HTML tables.

Curufea

However, that being said - I may be able to knock up a php script that produces an image as a calendar, I'll just check how strict the image HTML tags are in the wiki...

Yep, it's do-able. Give me an hour or so and I'll knock up and host a script you can send variables too that can generate an image of a calendar.

Curufea

Okay, here's a script for folks-



Just chuck that in your wiki and modify. I haven't made the colours or font (Ariel) customisable yet.

List of parameters:
*x* = width in pixels 100 to 800
*y* = height in pixels 100 to 800
*d* = total number of days in the month
*w* = total number of days in a week
*s* = which day of the week the month starts on (must be less than *w*)
*m* = the name of the month
*k* = which day in the month to mark (must be less than *d*)
*n* = the names for the days of the week. If they don't fit, only the first three letters are taken.

RaseCidraen

Curufea, you are absolutely incredible. I'd just be worried about many people sucking down bandwidth from your site using calendars.

Curufea

I figure roleplaying sites in general aren't that popular (comparatively), and the amount of people wanting calendars would be an even smaller proportion of that. Although I suppose I could check analytics later and find out :)

Besides I've not yet come close to what Dreamhost gives me for all my other sites

Ideally I want to just fill out an existing background image with calendar information - it would mean a more customised look. (e.g. my Victorian Age "Calling Card Creator":http://www.curufea.com/card.php )

RaseCidraen

True, the ratio of people who would actually use it seems rather small: but I totally would when I figure out how I want to do so... Planescape has an "established" calendar system, but I really lack a coherent sense of "time" in my campaign, which is annoying, but I can't figure how to rectify that, aside from modifying the way I DM. Hmm.

Curufea

You may need to allocate time for things and keep a record. Whenever someone asks, you can't just say "late afternoon" (which my last GM for a D&D-ish game was renowned for doing). You could date the sessions at the start of every session.