FullCalendar not Working in CakePHP 1.2.5 with jQuery 1.4.1

Answer 1

it definitely sounds like jquery 1.4.1 is enforcing strict json rules (http://yehudakatz.com/2010/01/15/jquery-1-4-and-malformed-json/) and that is why the error is occuring. that line in fullcalendar.js is where it parses the feed, so makes sense. i'd look at the json in firebug and see if there are double quotes around every string. if not, this is definitely your problem.

im not that familiar with cakephp, but if you want a quick hack with events as a function, i'd do the following or something like it...

$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
    events: function(start, end, callback) {
        $.getJSON('yourfeed.php', { start:start, end:end }, function(data) {
             callback(eval("(" + data + ")"));
        });
    }
});

Answer 2

My problem was that jquery 1.4.1+ doesn't accept single quotes in JSON, so that was an easy fix but I guess you're not in a position where you can change the generated JSON?

Arshaws example work very well (thank you arshaw for a great plugin btw :)). Or you can use jquery-json plugin to eval the json response in a secure way.