Event Calendar for Elxis CMS 2008.x and 2009.x+

[apkoutsou]

Well, I'm pleased to announce that Event Calendar for Elxis CMS 2008.x and 2009.x+ (both component and module) finally reached its beta stage!!!

Before uploading the packages to EDC, I'd like to share a release candidate (beta version) for bug-tracking and feature-testing by the community.

Please download and install the attached packages and feedback with comments, tracked bugs, feature suggetions etc., so that I can fix or include them respectively to the final release!

Download links:
* Event Calendar (component)
* Event Calendar (module)
* Event Calendar (module) - css code for customize.css (just to save your time  )

Beta stage is closed. Please check in ECD for the next official release.

[babis1]

i have tested ,so far so good, when i am ready i give a link but i have a problem because i want larger event titles, how can i make titles with more letters i thing the bigest now is 14 letters, i search in some files (js,classes php) but i havent time to search all of theme, please tell me where you give the max numbers of letters in every event title.
Thanks

[apkoutsou]

thnx babis1!

Everything is controlled by the css file (path: /components/com_eventcalendar/templates/default.css), so you should look there first. There are explainatory comments inside css code and the classes are named in a well understandable way...

Nevertheless, be a bit more specific: you mean in month/week/day -view or when displaying a single event? So that I can tell you which class is responsible for the font-size...

[mitsoud]

Το έβαλα και εγώ σε μια καινούργια δουλειά που ετοιμάζω
Κατα αρχήν συγχαρητηρια, Τώρα πρ΄το πρόβλήμα που βλέπω είανι ότιενώ εχω βάλει για αυριο μια εκδήλωση, μου λέει ότι Δεν υπάρχουν προσεχείς εκδηλώσεις.
Επίσης νομίζω ότι πρέπει να υπάρχει η δυνατότητα να απενεργοπηείται η περιοδικότητα
Although I hve put an event for tomorrow the module when is published said that there is no event for the future..

[babis1]

look i have pe one event with the title Event Calendar for Elxis CMS 2008.x and 2009.x+, at the front i see only Event Calendar... i want to change how many letters you can see inside the td of every day

[apkoutsou]

@mitsoud:
thnx 
That's weird... It doesn't work for me either, though it did... I'll see what's wrong...
Why to deactivate periodicity? Which case does it serve? The start/end dates are publishing dates! So you may set the same day as start/end date and let periodicity to (default) every day and so limit the range of event to one day...Have you an event e.g. on 13 and 15/05/2009, set the start date to 13/05/2009 and the end date to 15/05/2009 and add an exception on 14/05/2009... Soon I'll create a wiki page with examples and instructions...

@babis1:
Well that's something that's not controled by css... Cropping length was calculated for okto theme...
Go to /components/com_eventcalendar/eventcalendar.html.php (lines 184, 290, 300, 308, 315 and 324), find the function

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eUTF::utf8_trim($day_event->title), 0, 15)and replace 15 with the desired length...

[babis1]

ok thanks it work i make the 15............. 105  , for the moment is tested here http://www.foschristu.gr/events/

[apkoutsou]

@babis1:
For better visual results open /components/com_eventcalendar/templates/default.css and add

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margin-left: 10px;
in every .event_calendar_xxxx_table class in the css file (so that the component has a small distance from the left column), e.g.:

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.event_calendar_month_table {
font-family:Arial;
padding:5px;
border:solid 1px #CFCFCF;
border-collapse:collapse;
margin-top: 10px;
width: 100%;
}

tutns to:

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.event_calendar_month_table {
font-family:Arial;
padding:5px;
border:solid 1px #CFCFCF;
border-collapse:collapse;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-left: 10px; <-----------------------|
width: 100%;
}

Have also in mind that when the compont is released, there shall be more templates, including a gray one, that shall fit your site the most... 

@mitsoud:
I found the bug: when the event is limited in one day (e.g. starts 2009-05-20 and ends 2009-05-20, whatever its time is) then it is not displayed at the forthcoming section of the module... I'll work on it...

[datahell]

Nice job apostolis and a really useful component.
When you finish it I will take a look to it to make fixes if needed in order to run smoothly under Elxis 2008/2009. I care mostly for the validity of the SEO PRO extension and the 2009.0 compatible SEO PRO base names. Event Calendar should use the "events" SEO PRO base name under Elxis 2009.0+.
http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/SEO_PRO_base_names

[apkoutsou]

thnx datahell! It's very important to hear something like that from you!! 

Till now, only one bug is tracked, so I hope that after this weekend, the component shall be ready for release (and so a copy will be sent to your mailbox)

[apkoutsou]

Well, this is the last day of beta testing! This weekend I'll fix the only bug that was tracked, and then release the component/module!

Any last suggestions/bugs/etc. until tonight...

[nikos65]

Thanks apkoutsou for your nice work 

[apkoutsou]

thnx nikos65!!

The bug is fixed! The problem was in line 286 (mod_eventcalendar.php):

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$working_day = strtotime( "+1 day", time() );
The time() function returns both date and time which caused a wrong result of calcRecursion() function. This function checks if working date is inside event periodidcity, so the passed timestamp should be clear of times - only date!

Here is the correct code:

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$working_day = strtotime( "+1 day", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")) );

[datahell]

Αν θες να βρεις το timestamp της αυριανής μέρας το πιο σωστό είναι αυτό:

$working_day = mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d') + 1, date('Y'));

Η PHP έχει εσωτερικούς μηχανισμούς που υπολογίζουν αν πήγαμε στον επόμενο μήνα ή έτος, τον αριθμό των ημερών του μήνα, τα δίσεκτα έτη κλπ. Οπότε το παραπάνω θα σου δίνει πάντα σωστά την αυριανή ημέρα (12 η ώρα το βράδυ).

Παράδειγμα:
το: mktime(0, 0, 0, 5, 32, 2009);
Θα μας δώσει: 1 Ιουνίου 2009

το: mktime(0, 0, 0, 2, 32, 2009);
Θα μας δώσει: 4 Μαρτίου 2009

Εναλλακτικά:
$working_day = time() + 86400; (όχι όμως 12 το βράδυ, αλλά δεν σε ενδιαφέρει εσένα για τον σκοπό που το θες).

Σημείωση
Οι συναρτήσεις strtotime και strftime είναι λίγο αργές και πρέπει να χρησιμοποιώνται μόνο όταν δεν βρίσκουμε καλύτερη μέθοδο.

[mitsoud]

o.k the bug is fixed but I still want to disable periodiciti, because it appears when I click the event


Periodicity Every Day

And it seems a litle stupid....

Also another bug
If I click the link of the category"ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΕΙΣ" as you see in the picture. I get an error the link goes to nowhere...

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