add birthday events into jQuery full calendar each year

Question

I\'m trying to insert into jQuery full calendar event data, which in this case represents birthdays of users. I\'m retrieving birthdays from MySQL data

Answer 1

Well the easiest solutions may be to alter your PHP loop and add "multiple" years to your events.

while ($birthday_row = $birthday_r->fetch_row()){
    $yearBegin = date("Y");
    $yearEnd = $yearBegin + 10; // edit for your needs
    $years = range($yearBegin, $yearEnd, 1);

    foreach($years as $year){
        $birthday_array[] = array(
            'title' => $birthday_row[0],
            'start' => $year . "-" . $birthday_row[1] . "-" . $birthday_row[2]
        );
    }
}

Two drawbacks :

• you can't manage different birthdays (so a person's birthdate may occur, even after his dead)
• it leeds into exponential costs

You may also take a look at the demo with repeating events to build a frontend solution.