mika.vainikka's sandbox: Holiday Notifier

Holiday Notifier module is a feature displaying holiday information for various countries. The module is meant as an easy way to get pre-assigned holidays for certain countries for any website needing a holiday module, this includes e.g. schools, travel websites.

Default blocks include a calendar view with country selection and a notification view that shows upcoming holidays in a list.

Administrator can edit, add and delete holiday information through the custom Holiday content type. However, a more advanced way of providing holiday information is enabled through using the Date_Holidays PEAR package and its drivers.

Features

• Manage holidays through custom Holiday content type
• Add holiday nodes manually
• Add holiday nodes automatically using Date_Holidays drivers
• Use default views and blocks to display holidays: calendar mode and upcoming holidays list
• Check holiday information from the module using a simple API

Requirements

Drupal 7.x with Calendar, Countries, Date, Entity, Features,
Field UI, List and Views UI among others. For automated holiday import the Date_Holidays PEAR package and its drivers are needed.

Credits

This module was originally created by a project team at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. The team members are: Mika Vainikka, Samu Suurinkeroinen, Verónica Morales Márques, Poorang Vosough, and Anni Siren.