[dcuellar]

Glad I found this article. Too bad I have yet to figure out what I'm trying to do. Hopefully someone here can help.

I'm trying to add a field in the template "calendar_edit" for people to add an image url to calendar events. I got the field visible when creating an event by using the following:

			<div class="blockrow">
					<label for="imgfield" class="full">Enter IMG URL:</label>
					<input type="text" class="primary full textbox" id="imgfield" name="imgurl" value="{vb:raw img_url}" tabindex="1"/>
					<p class="singledescription">This field is important. It will place this image on our Forum Home page's "Upcoming Events" side block.</p>
			</div>

What I'm struggling with is the next step. So you are saying I have to create a plugin for the data to be saved in order to use it later? Because as it is, it is not saving the data I place in that field.

Eventually, I want to place this image in a sideblock for upcoming events but it's not saving the field entered data.

--------------- Added [DATE]1290186736[/DATE] at [TIME]1290186736[/TIME] ---------------

Here is the product I have edited.

PHP Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 
<product productid="imgurl" active="1">
 <title>Calendar Image URL</title> 
 <description>Adds an image URL field to calendar events.</description> 
 <version>0.0.1</version> 
  
 <dependencies> 
 </dependencies> 
 <codes> 
 </codes> 
 <templates> 
 </templates> 
 <stylevardfns> 
 </stylevardfns> 
 <stylevars> 
 </stylevars> 
 <plugins> 
  <plugin active="1" executionorder="5"> 
   <title>calendar image field</title> 
   <hookname>newthread_post_start</hookname> 
   <phpcode><![CDATA[ 
         $value = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', "imgurl", TYPE_STR); 
         $custom_message .= "[customBBcode][b]Source URL: [/b] [/customBBcode]: ".$value;
         $vbulletin->GPC['message'] .= "".$custom_message; 
 ]]></phpcode> 
  </plugin> 
 </plugins> 
 <phrases> 
 </phrases> 
 <options> 
 </options> 
 <helptopics> 
 </helptopics> 
 <cronentries> 
 </cronentries> 
 <faqentries> 
 </faqentries> 
</product>

What do I use as the hookname? I don't think its the same as "newthread_post_start".

Does everything else look right? Do I need this for what I'm trying to accomplish?:

PHP Code:

         $custom_message .= "[customBBcode][b]Source URL: [/b] [/customBBcode]: ".$value;
         $vbulletin->GPC['message'] .= "".$custom_message; 


And here is my Forum Block:

PHP Code:

ob_start(); 


//  %d 
$show_count = 1; 

$query = sprintf("SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."event WHERE visible = 1 AND (dateline_from > '%d' || (  dateline_from > '%d' AND dateline_to > '%d' )) ORDER BY dateline_from ASC LIMIT %d",TIMENOW,TIMENOW,TIMENOW,$show_count);   

$event_get = vB::$db->query_read($query); 

$output_bits = ''; 
while($event = vB::$db->fetch_array($event_get)) { 

     if($event['dateline_to'] == 0 ) 
     { 
         $format = sprintf("On %s%s %s %s",date("j",$event['dateline_from'])+1, date("S",$event['dateline_from']), date("M",$event['dateline_from']), date("Y",$event['dateline_from'])); 
     } else { 
         $format = sprintf("From %s to %s",date('jS M Y',$event['dateline_from']),date('jS M Y',$event['dateline_to'])); 
     } 
      
     $output_bits .= sprintf(' 
        <div class = "cms_widget_post_bit"><center><a href="calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=%d"><img src="{vb:raw imgurl}" width="200px" alt="Upcoming Event"/><br /><br /><h4 class="cms_widget_post_header" style="font-weight:bold;">%s</a></h4> 
            <p class="cms_widget_post_content">%s</p> <br />Who will win? <a href="vbookie.php">Bet on it!</a></center>
        </div> 
        ',$event['eventid'],$event['title'],$format); 

} 
$output = $output_bits; 


ob_end_clean(); 
return $output; 


I placed {vb:raw imgurl} in the image source just to see if it worked. Nope, it didn't.