PlanZ is a convention scheduling tool originally developed for Arisia. PlanZ tracks sessions (events, panels, and anything that needs to be scheduled), participants, and rooms. PlanZ is a fork of Zambia; enough changes have been made to the Zambia codebase that we decided a new name was in order.
- Track sessions, rooms, and participants
- Comprehensive conflict checking
- Participants log in to enter availability, provide biography, etc.
- Reports for various departments such as technical services and hotel liaison
- PHP 7.4 or greater (mostly tested on 8.1, but there may be some minor issues with 8.X)
- XSLT library
- Multibyte library (mbstring)
- Apache or Nginx (Should be able to run on other web servers than can handle PHP and MySQL, but not tested)
- MySQL or MariaDB (Tested on MySQL 5.6 & 8.0, and on MariaDB 10.5)
- SMTP connection for use as mail relay (only if you want to send email from PlanZ)
- Note: many hosts limit use of their mail relays in ways not compatible with PlanZ
- The participant photo upload option requires the PHP extension GD library
These libraries are included in the repo and should just work if you leave as is
- Client Side
- Bootstrap 2.3.2
- Bootstrap 4.5.0
- Bootstrap Multiselect 1.1.7
- Choices 9.0.0
- Croppie 2.6.5
- DataTables 1.10.16
- JQuery 1.7.2
- JQuery 3.5.1
- JQueryUI 1.8.16
- ParseCSV 0.4.3 beta
- Tabulator 4.9.3
- TinyMCE 5.6.2
- Server Side
- Swift mailer 5.4.8
- Guzzle 6.5.3
Other software which can work with PlanZ:
- Convention Guide scripts (https://github.com/pselkirk/conguide), a tool for producing a printable pocket program in InDesign, including a schedule grid
- KonOpas (https://github.com/eemeli/konopas), a free tool for publishing the schedule to mobile devices
- ConClár (https://github.com/lostcarpark/conclar), an online Program Guide tool for conventions
Are you trying to install PlanZ? Check out the installation notes.
A portion of the application is built as a React client. You'll need to build and deploy the React code as well.
We have some user documentation over here.