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Many web applications benefit from interactive and dynamic event calendars, which provide users with an organised approach to manage and visualise events. Laravel, a powerful PHP framework, in conjunction with the FullCalendar module, provides a great base for developing such calendars.

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through creating a FullCalendar with AJAX CRUD capability in Laravel 10, allowing you to easily create, read, update, and delete events.

Throughout this class, we’ll look at how to integrate FullCalendar, set up AJAX queries, and conduct Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations on events.

Let’s get started.

What is jQuery FullCalendar Plugin?

FullCalendar is a popular open-source JavaScript framework and jQuery plugin used in web applications to create interactive and customisable calendar and event scheduling interfaces.

It has a plethora of features and options for presenting and organising events, making it an invaluable tool for developing event-driven applications, booking systems, and scheduling applications.

The FullCalendar plugin’s few key features and capabilities are as follows:

Interactive Calendar Views
Custom Event Rendering
Drag-and-Drop
Event Click and Hover Handling
Event Editing

Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Create Database & Connect

To create a database, either we can create via Manual tool of PhpMyadmin or by means of a mysql command.

CREATE DATABASE laravel_app;

To connect database with application, Open .env file from application root. Search for DB_ and update your details.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_app
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root

Setup Event Migration

Open project into terminal and run this command,

php artisan make:migration create_events_table

It will create 2023_03_04_031027_create_events_table.php file inside /database/migrations folder. Open file and write this following code into it.

The code is all about for the schema of events table.

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

return new class extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up(): void
    {
        Schema::create('events', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('title', 50);
            $table->date('start');
            $table->date('end');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down(): void
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('events');
    }
};

Run Migration

Back to terminal and run this command.

php artisan migrate

It will create events table inside database.

Next,

Create Event Model

Run this command,

php artisan make:model Event

It will create a model file Event.php inside /app/Models folder. Open up the file and write this code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Event extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $fillable = [
        'title', 'start', 'end'
    ];
}

Create Event Controller

Open project into terminal and run this command into it,

php artisan make:controller FullCalendarController

It will create FullcalendarController.php file inside /app/Http/Controllers folder. Open controller file and write this code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Event;

class FullCalendarController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        if ($request->ajax()) {

            $data = Event::whereDate('start', '>=', $request->start)
                ->whereDate('end',   '<=', $request->end)
                ->get(['id', 'title', 'start', 'end']);

            return response()->json($data);
        }

        return view('fullcalendar');
    }

    public function ajax(Request $request)
    {
        switch ($request->type) {
            case 'add':
                $event = Event::create([
                    'title' => $request->title,
                    'start' => $request->start,
                    'end' => $request->end,
                ]);

                return response()->json($event);
                break;

            case 'update':
                $event = Event::find($request->id)->update([
                    'title' => $request->title,
                    'start' => $request->start,
                    'end' => $request->end,
                ]);

                return response()->json($event);
                break;

            case 'delete':
                $event = Event::find($request->id)->delete();

                return response()->json($event);
                break;

            default:
                # code...
                break;
        }
    }
}

Inside above code, you have two methods –

index() method for frontend layout of fullcalendar.
ajax() method responsible to process ajax request when insert, update and delete.

Create Blade Template

Next, needs to create fullcalendar.blade.php file inside /resources/views folder.

Open file and write this following code into it. This will give the frontend view for fullcalendar.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>Laravel 10 FullCalendar Ajax CRUD Tutorial Example</title>
    <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fullcalendar/3.9.0/fullcalendar.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/toastr.js/latest/toastr.min.css" />
</head>

<body>
    <div class="container">
        <div class="jumbotron">
            <div class="container text-center">
                <h3>Laravel 10 FullCalendar Ajax CRUD Tutorial Example</h3>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div id='calendar'></div>
    </div>

    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.24.0/moment.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fullcalendar/3.9.0/fullcalendar.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/toastr.js/latest/toastr.min.js"></script>

    <script>
        $(document).ready(function() {

            var SITEURL = "{{ url('/') }}";

            $.ajaxSetup({
                headers: {
                    'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
                }
            });

            var calendar = $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
                editable: true,
                events: SITEURL + "/fullcalendar",
                displayEventTime: false,
                editable: true,
                eventRender: function(event, element, view) {
                    if (event.allDay === 'true') {
                        event.allDay = true;
                    } else {
                        event.allDay = false;
                    }
                },
                selectable: true,
                selectHelper: true,
                select: function(start, end, allDay) {
                    var title = prompt('Event Title:');
                    if (title) {
                        var start = $.fullCalendar.formatDate(start, "Y-MM-DD");
                        var end = $.fullCalendar.formatDate(end, "Y-MM-DD");
                        $.ajax({
                            url: SITEURL + "/fullcalendar-ajax",
                            data: {
                                title: title,
                                start: start,
                                end: end,
                                type: 'add'
                            },
                            type: "POST",
                            success: function(data) {
                                displayMessage("Event Created Successfully");

                                calendar.fullCalendar('renderEvent', {
                                    id: data.id,
                                    title: title,
                                    start: start,
                                    end: end,
                                    allDay: allDay
                                }, true);

                                calendar.fullCalendar('unselect');
                            }
                        });
                    }
                },
                eventDrop: function(event, delta) {
                    var start = $.fullCalendar.formatDate(event.start, "Y-MM-DD");
                    var end = $.fullCalendar.formatDate(event.end, "Y-MM-DD");

                    $.ajax({
                        url: SITEURL + '/fullcalendar-ajax',
                        data: {
                            title: event.title,
                            start: start,
                            end: end,
                            id: event.id,
                            type: 'update'
                        },
                        type: "POST",
                        success: function(response) {
                            displayMessage("Event Updated Successfully");
                        }
                    });
                },
                eventClick: function(event) {
                    var deleteMsg = confirm("Do you really want to delete?");
                    if (deleteMsg) {
                        $.ajax({
                            type: "POST",
                            url: SITEURL + '/fullcalendar-ajax',
                            data: {
                                id: event.id,
                                type: 'delete'
                            },
                            success: function(response) {
                                calendar.fullCalendar('removeEvents', event.id);
                                displayMessage("Event Deleted Successfully");
                            }
                        });
                    }
                }

            });

        });

        function displayMessage(message) {
            toastr.success(message, 'Event');
        }

    </script>
</body>

</html>

Add Route

Open web.php file from /routes folder. Add these routes into it.

//...

use App\Http\Controllers\FullCalendarController;

//...

Route::get('fullcalendar', [FullCalendarController::class, 'index']);
Route::post('fullcalendar-ajax', [FullCalendarController::class, 'ajax']);

//...

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/fullcalendar

Frontend

Create Event

Click on any date, add and save your event.

Update Event

To update any event, Simple you can move (drag and drop) that event into any of your date. It will be automatically updated.

Delete Event

To delete, simple click on event and confirm via javascript alert box. It will delete automatically via ajax request.

In database events table, you will see the events as –

That’s it.

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