Event Calendar

[foxy]

Hi,
I am trying to put together an event calendar section on my test serendipity site but I'm having problems.

I'd like the standard calendar layout. I tried MyCalendar and it lists them in a simple text list. Is there a way to formay them in a calendar style? Failing that I'd like a more readable date format rather than 12.07

I tried microformat calendar and it works fine for events today but I can't enter future events. It refuses to publish the event.

Thanks for any pointers

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You can actually configure the simple calendar plugin that ships with s9y to enable the use of "External Events". Then, the "My Calendar" event plugin can put your events into the usual calendar output and reveal a mouse-over state with the scheduled event.

I tried microformat calendar and it works fine for events today but I can't enter future events. It refuses to publish the event.

Oh, I wasn't even aware that the microformats plugin had its own calendar!

Best regards,
Garvin

[foxy]

Thanks Gavin, can I do the dumb blonde routine and ask some stupid questions?

- I have enabled plugin api hook in the standard calenday... is that what you mean by enable external events?

- I don't see any switches in the MyCalendar plugin to link it to calendar

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Then if you've already enabled that, you should already see calendar highlights. Can you provide your URL, then I could have a look?

Regards,
Garvin

[steve]

I too am looking forward with great interest to implementing the future calendar. What a great feature.

[mattsches]

Hi guys, saw you mentioning my microformats plugin here. I wasn't aware of the MyCalendar plugin back when I started adding some similar functionality to my plugin. On my dev box, I am already able to import events from my GoogleCal, but from a glance at the code of the MyCal plugin it seems to me that it does exactly that (I will try to install and test the MyCal plugin over the weekend).

So I guess I will give up my efforts to further improve this feature in the MF plugin, but I would offer to add microformats to the MyCalendar output. This will enable people to add events to their calendars. Does this sound like a good idea?

- Mattsches

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Maybe the plugins could be integrated together? Maybe with a distinct event hook called by the calendar plugin, so that the microformat plugin can "inject" its data there? Or the other way round? If possible, I'd really make only the microformat plugin offer microformats, and not otherplugins as well? That makes it easier for users to understand what is provided by what plugin?

Bestregards,
Garvin

[mattsches]

Sounds like a good idea, though I'm not sure how exactly this can be realized. This may require a full microformat parser or some kind of XSL transformation ... well, I'll update you as soon as I got some more ideas ;O)

- Mattsches

[Octane]

It would be really great to have an event manager plugin in the blog. This could really expand s9y's reach. Small organizations and clubs could use the software to run their websites.