This project provide a simple but powerful web calendar system for making apppointment, anonymously, and exclusively. It is suitable to use as a personal schedule, where your customers from all over the world make appointment to you, and you can arrange your schedule based on the appointments.

Features:

1. No need to register and activation your account. Just make an appointment as you need.
2. It supports HTTP session.
3. Has a customized, powerful js time range selection widget based on jquery-ui slider,
   • Exclusive appointments
   • Support timezone
   • Dynamic updates via Ajax when date or timezone changed.

Techniques:

1. fbone, the project template
2. bootstrap-calendar, for index page calendar, with some customized event listeners and UI.
3. bootstrap-datetimepicker, for verbose datetime picker.
4. jquery ui slider: A real selling point of this project.

This project starts from fbone for faster prototyping with Python Flask.

You need the following installed:

• Python 2.7
• virtualenv
• pip
• fabric

Instructions to setup the test development:

Clone:

git clone git@github.com:wpic/flask-appointment-calendar.git

Setup virtualenv:

fab setup

Debug and test(this will erase the old database data):

source env/bin/activate
fab d

Restart:

source env/bin/activate
python manage.py run

Here’s a sample deployment steps with Ubuntu/Apache(mod_wsgi).

sudo apt-get install git apache2 mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev

Install mod_wsgi for python flask web framework:

# Install mod-wsgi
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi

Install pip and fabric, install necessary requirement packages to virtualenv:

fab setup

Add a sample conf file for Apache virtual host:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        ServerName webmeet.com
        ServerAlias web-calendar.web-demo.com

        WSGIDaemonProcess fbone user=www-data group=www-data threads=2
        WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/web-calendar/public_html/app.wsgi

        DocumentRoot /var/www/web-calendar/public_html/
        <Directory /var/www/web-calendar/public_html/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        Alias /robots.txt /var/www/shared/robots.txt

        <Location /server-status>
                SetHandler server-status
        </Location>

        ErrorLog /var/www/web-calendar/logs/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/www/web-calendar/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Modify production_config.py file:

• DEBUG
• SECRET_KEY
• SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI
• MAIL_USERNAME
• MAIL_PASSWORD

Then install this project to virtual env:

source env/bin/activate
python setup.py install

git pull origin master
source env/bin/activate
python setup.py install
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The hidden entrance:

• Login: http://localhost:5000/login (username: admin, password: 123456)
• Register: http://localhost:5000/signup
• Make an appointment: http://localhost:5000/appointment/create