Event Forums

Note: This plugin has been discontinued and taken over here. Installing this plugin is *not* recommended.

The plugin creates a tight integration between a calendar and a forum.

• When an event is created in a calendar, a corresponding thread is created in its forum.
• When an event is deleted, its thread is deleted.
• When a thread is deleted, its event is deleted.
• When an event is edited, its thread is edited.
• When a thread is edited via quick edit, its event is edited.
• Links to event details are redirected to the thread.
• New post links in event forums are redirected to new event forms, except for moderators.
• Advanced editing on a thread is redirected to event edit.

To set up your calendar/forum pairs, look under "Event Forums" in "vBulletin Options" in admincp.

There is also one template change. In calendar_showeventsbit, change:

PHP Code:

<td class="tcat">$eventinfo[title]</td> 


to:

PHP Code:

<td class="tcat"><if condition="$eventinfo[nwt_threadid]"><a href="showthread.php?t=$eventinfo[nwt_threadid]"></if>$eventinfo[title]<if condition="$eventinfo[nwt_threadid]"></a></if></td> 


I run a forum at http://nwtekno.org/ that is heavily oriented to calendar data, so this is useful to me, though I'm not sure how useful it will be to others. Mostly I'm putting this up for critique by people who know more than me.

One thing I'm wondering is how to get the included template (nwteventforums_calendar_showeventsbit) to replace calendar_showeventsbit when installed. Or should I just tell people to copy/paste from one to another?

[LoOnEyToOnZ]

Any idea if this works for RC3? Would be a great mod to have

[trancetopia]

Just installed on RC3 and work a treat. Great hack and thanks to everyone who got this working.

[GeoffE]

Working fine on Gold .. top hack

Anyone know how I would change the input so it only asks for one date, rather than start date & time and end date & time?

cheers

[skizzy203]

How do I access any events that were previously posted before I added this pluggin?

The events that I already had, show up on the calendar view, but when I click on the title it takes me to this message:

vBulletin Message
No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

I would like to be able to access old events and copy and paste the old event info into new event threads and clear those non working links out of the calendars.

Any Insight?

I also would like to request that the "Event Attendace Hack" be integrated into this system as it would be an excellent feature for my members as well.

Thank you guys for taking the time to develop and support this excellent pluggin. I seriously don't understand why Jelsoft has not spent more time on this.

[silurius]

So if I see a couple more people confirm that this is working in Gold, I shall click install and go at it.

[Crazy Serb]

it works perfect in Gold...

just a note - you might want to update the xml file offered in the first post of this thread to reflect that v1.0 xml posted a few posts above mine.

and yes, let's see the integration of Event Attendance hack now!

NOTE: I disabled the "calendar_getday_start" plugin (that redirects the calendar events to the forum threads instead), and now having the event attendance hack installed already it shows on the calendar posts. what would be cool is to create some sort of link from calendar to the thread (for more info) and vice versa (for attendance list)... or an even tighter integration, if anyone has a clue how to.

[Vizionz]

works fine for me

[rabidkevin]

I have run in to a bug I think.. is this only me?

I install the product plugin
I go to VB options and sync the calendar/forum (1:15)

Now when I try to delete a thread from the sync'ed forum, I get this error:

Fatal error: Existing data passed is not an array
Called set_existing in /home/eternalb/public_html/forums/includes/class_dm_threadpost.php(1226) : eval()'d code on line 25
Called eval in /home/eternalb/public_html/forums/includes/class_dm_threadpost.php on line 1226
Called delete in /home/eternalb/public_html/forums/postings.php on line 384
in /includes/class_dm.php on line 235

As soon as I remove the 1:15 setting from VB Options, I do not get this error.

Help?

Anyone else experience this?

[rabidkevin]

OK it looks like that happens when trying to delete a non-synched topic (old).

Anyhow, I have a **BUG REPORT**

On the main forum index, in the Last Post column, It is using the date of the last thread reply in the topic instead of the calendar date.

You can see here: http://www.eternalbeats.net/forums/index.php

[Tue Oct 4, 2005] LADIES...
by TerraEnigma Productions
Tue Oct 4, 2005 04:50 AM

But when you enter the "Upcoming Events" section, it changes to what it should be displayed as:

[Fri Oct 7, 2005] LADIES DRINK FREE THIS FRIDAY AT ICE!!!! (Fri. Oct. 7th)
TerraEnigma Productions

I've already put this on a live production board, can we please get a fix for this ASAP!!

[rabidkevin]

sigh.. well it's being wacky. I bumped the thread and it shows up as Fri oct 7th now on the forum index.