Calendar Events [library support]

[Wormopolis]

v1.1.0 submitted to library

added ability to add custom icon to events that show in day view
added ability to add thread links to events that show in day view
made events clickable in info center to go to day view for that day
fixed a bug caused when it didnt find an existing cal event row object by creating a fake one

[mamagail48]

Wormopolis quick question about calendar events. Is this possible to show calendar events in sidebar rather than in the info center? 

[Wormopolis]

I guess we could do that. or maybe just use a footer code to copy it from the info center after its there and duplicate it into a side bar as well...

[lkfco]

I currently have the V5 calendar setup in my forum. What will happen to the events created with that calendar if I install your plugin? Do I install your plugin and then disable the standard calendar?

[Wormopolis]

the normal v5 calendar stores things completely seperate so th eplugin wont affect it in any way. you dont even have to disable the standard calendar. it can be used alongside the plugin.

[lkfco]

Thanks for your reply.
I would like to have only one calendar. Is there any way to transfer events from the standard calendar to the plugin?
Where does the plugin store its data?

[Wormopolis]

Won't be able to transfer because the standard calendar stores everything as threads. The plugin wouldn't have access to any threads that weren't on the page

The plugin stores in two places, the plugin settings ( for reoccurring events you want to always be there), and in a super forum key (user created events). Key stored events will auto delete events after a certain age unless they are set to reoccur.

[lkfco]

Thanks for the information.

[Wormopolis]

One advantage of the plugin, is that you can have it show events down in the info center, and it doesnt require threads to be created for each event (though its now an option to link a thread).

[scifikriss]

So want to get this but will need to buy another super key! ahh well... will see what happens...

Kriss

[Wormopolis]

You can never go wrong with extra keys

[ponzinomics]

The plugin seems to works great. I would like that when you click in menu bar it opens TODAY's events rather than a view of the whole month (http://...../calendar).

I can figure out some javascript fix by creating a new menu option linked to a URL built dynamically for today's date (http://...../calendar/8/23/2014) but I am afraid would be too ugly fix.

Any cleaner idea? Actually I do not know if the issue is related to this plugin or to the general calendar widget.

[Wormopolis]

general calendar widget. seems as if it should just take a global footer code though to append the date to the menu item href.

[ponzinomics]

Thanks Wormo, for the moment this, in global footer, surely can be improved, but works. The calendar menu item does not have an id to look for.


  var els = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
  var calendarURL = 'http://www.myforum.com/calendar';
  for (var i = 0, l = els.length; i < l; i++) {
     var el = els[i];
     if (el.href === calendarURL) {
        var d = new Date();
        el.href = calendarURL + '/' + (d.getMonth()+1) + '/' + d.getDate() + '/' + d.getFullYear();
        break;
     }
  }

[Wormopolis]

if you use jQuery, you can get it with

var calMenu=$('div.navigation-menu a[href=="/calendar"]');
calMenu.attr('href', calMenu.attr('href')+ '/' + (d.getMonth()+1) + '/' + d.getDate() + '/' + d.getFullYear());


though you might have to check the padding on the day and month if they need leading zeros