[Colin F]

Tips and Tricks

But its... *english*?!?
To translate the few hardcoded dayvalues, go to lines 21-27 and edit the Su, Mo Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa values near the end of each line to your liking.
DON'T change these values if you think there's a problem with the first day of the week! The script checks on the browsing users start of week day and changes the mini calendar so that the day is also all the way on the left!

German:

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How can I have it use my other calendar?
If you have more than one calendar and would like mini calendar to pull the events from a different calendar, do the following:

• Go to yourforums.com/pathtoyourforum/calendar.php?s=&month=6&year=2004&do=&c=1
• Pick the calendar you want to use as the base for mini calendar from the Calendar Jump box on the bottom right.
• Now look in your adressbar. The adress should be something like
  
  

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  Look for the c variable (marked green above) and write that down or remember that or whatever
• Edit cal.php. Change the variable $calendarid on line 5 to the value of that c variable you picked out of the adress.
• save / reupload

thanks for the final release!

[PUPSTAHS]

Hi Colin,
Excellent work, but the single all-day events still do not appear correctly for me (and others). Example:

A single all-day event on August 20th appears on the Mini Calendar on August 19th, thereby resulting in an incorrect link and a "no events to display" error from the calendar. Using a ranged event works fine, but all-day events result in erroneous links to the previous day every time.

FYI I did a straight, simple install, with no modifications.

Any help would be great, as I love the idea.

[Colin F]

S***!

Ok...
I'm thinking it has something to do with your timezone. what timezone are you in?

[PUPSTAHS]

Hmm

I'm PST... (-8:00)

[Colin F]

I have an idea... but I don't have access to phpmyadmin here at work. I'll look at it when I come home

[spence2]

To be clear ... the .php I alter should look like:

require_once('./global.php');
include ("cal.php");

Is this correct?
So far I'm having trouble getting this to work, so I wanted to clarify.
Thanks.

[Colin F]

Originally Posted by spence2

To be clear ... the .php I alter should look like:

require_once('./global.php');
include ("cal.php");

Is this correct?
So far I'm having trouble getting this to work, so I wanted to clarify.
Thanks.

That is correct spence2.

[PUPSTAHS]

Regarding the all-day-event bug--

I'm no PHP or vBulletin expert, but it seems strange that a different time zone would be causing a problem that seems to only deal with dates, not times.

I could be wrong tho... mostly I just want my mini-calendar up and kicking :squareeyed:

[Colin F]

If someone with this problem could give me access to their site as well as ftp for trying this out, I would be most grateful.

In the meantime, could someone try the following:
exchange this: $eventdateday = date("mj",$event[dateline_from]);

with this: $eventdateday = vbdate("mj",$event[dateline_from],false,true,false,true);

[PUPSTAHS]

Ok I just tried that out... it seems to fix half of the problem. Now all-day-events are shown on the correct day, but if you click the link, it still goes to the day before.

So for example, before the fix an all-day August 14th event would appear on August 13th and link to August 13th, resulting in an error. Now it appears on August 14th on the mini calendar, but still links to the 13th, so there is still an error.


For more information, here is August 2004 on my mini calendar.


Original, unmodified install:
*12th - Midnight to 9AM
--Correct
*14th - All-day
--Incorrect, the 13th is highlighted/linked instead and the link points to the 13th
*20th - All-day
--Incorrect, the 19th is highlighted/linked instead and the link points to the 19th
*21st (8am) to 22nd (9am)
--Only the 21st is highlighted as having an activity, even tho the event extends over two days
*29th - 8am - 11:30pm
--Correct
*30th - All-day
--Incorrect, the 29th is highlighted/linked instead and the link points to the 29th


Now w/ your fix:
*12th - Midnight to 9AM
--Correct
*14th - All-day
--The correct day is highlighted, but the link points to the 13th, resulting in an error
*20th - All-day
--The correct day is highlighted, but the link points to the 19th, resulting in an error
*21st (8am) to 22nd (9am)
--Only the 21st is highlighted as having an activity, even tho the event extends over two days
*29th - 8am - 11:30pm
--Correct
*30th - All-day
--The correct day is highlighted, but the link points to the 29th, resulting in an error

[spence2]

Hi, Colin ... thanks for the hack!, which I got working on my forumhome ... but, of course, I wanted MORE, so I decided to try to make a second small calendar as well. Here's what I did:

First, I completed the hack for one calendar ... then:

Made second (duplicate) template and named it small_calendar_bal.

Duplicated cal.php and named it bal.php
assigned it to:
$calendarid = 2;
Replaced all instances of $calendarbits with $balendarbits
changed the last line of that file to:
eval("\$smallcalendarbal .= \"".fetch_template("small_calendar_bal")."\";");

Uploaded bal.php
Called it from the template: $smallcalendarbal

Added this in index.php:
require_once('./global.php');
include ("cal.php");
include ("bal.php");

Both instances now link to the correct calendars.
HOWEVER, entries made in either calendar show up as day links in both.
While if incorrect, they link to the "no entry" error page ... it would be sweet if I could correct his one remaining problem.

Any ideas?

[Colin F]

OK, to fix the wrong link problem, find:
$eventday= date("Y-n-j", $event[dateline_from]);

replace with:
$eventday= vbdate("Y-n-j", $event[dateline_from],false,true,false,true);

Do this with all three instances of the find text.
I'll upload an updated cal.php shortly.

[Colin F]

Great that you got it to wrok spence2!

Could you add an event on calendar 1 and an event on a different date in calendar 2?
Then check which event is displayed (linked) on each of your three minicalendars.