I want to add an interactive calendar on my website

The first problem is, what language can I write this in? I have access to PHP, MySQL, ASP, ASP.NET, Javascript, Java, etc. (I wanted to avoid Java so I wouldn't have to make the user install the JRE).

What I want is this:

1. You go to my website, you click the calendar button (on the nav bar) and it will open up almost like in the same wa开发者_StackOverflow中文版y Facebook has it's pictures open up (with a popup, faded background) minus the click out to exit (I want to have an X on the top of it for that purpose).

2. The calendar would then have areas highlighted different colors depending on the event (because I want the user to see events listed in each day).

3. Also, I wanted to admin to be able to add events to the calendar via an application interface (hopefully!) and for the events to be stored somewhere.

This sounds like an application on a website, which I have no knowledge of where to start and I feel like it would take more than XHTML and CSS.

Any help would be much appreciated!

If I understand your question correctly, I would recommend "jQuery datepicker". Google it. It doesn't come with an admin panel or such, but it may be useful to you so you could modify it. I'm pretty sure there are also better opensource (free) calendars around. I'd go for PHP, but that's because I feel better when using PHP.

Good luck!

OFC this is one way to do it, not the only way.

For the look it will be XHTML and CSS. For popping up the calender in a FB-Image style you can use AJAX/JQuery. For managing events, PHP can do it.