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?

[butty]

is anyone workin on intergrating this with the event attendance hack do we know? those 2 hacks would be awesome working together

[twitch]

Originally Posted by butty

is anyone workin on intergrating this with the event attendance hack do we know? those 2 hacks would be awesome working together

Yeah, that would be kickass!

[Evercraft]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....0&postcount=85

There i have fixed some of the bugs mentioned above, but as I have previously said, im not going todo anymore updates on this until the original author gets in touch. But he hasn't been online since august now, and he still hasn't replied to my PM or email

I am currently working on getting Event Attendance and this intergrated on my own boards, but i'm in no rush todo it, so unfortunatly I can't tell you when it will be done by.

[skizzy203]

Originally Posted by Evercraft

There i have fixed some of the bugs mentioned above, but as I have previously said, im not going todo anymore updates on this until the original author gets in touch. But he hasn't been online since august now, and he still hasn't replied to my PM or email

I sent him a PM and an e-mail as well and no response here either.

What makes it even worse is his yahoo messenger handle is "endquote" and I went to add him to my contact list on there but after a day when he came online he refused the request for him to be added to my list.

It's a shame he is not supporting this development. He seems rather talented juding from the portfolio work on his site.

Originally Posted by Evercraft

I am currently working on getting Event Attendance and this intergrated on my own boards, but i'm in no rush todo it, so unfortunatly I can't tell you when it will be done by.

What do you need for an incentive to get it done? Cash donations through Paypal? I need a solution for my board relaunch pretty soon. This is one of the developments I am tracking.

Also, as I inquired in a previous post, how do I get rid of old events that are still listed in the calendar once I have implemented this pluggin?

[MrD]

Hi,
nice Hack.
But i Think, that this hack are include in your hack.

Then it?s a Perfect hack

[GamerzWorld]

I agree, its a vital addon which i think alot would want

[twitch]

Heck yes

[jeepinaround]

Yes I have been wanting something like this for sometime now. I wish that the author would release it to Evercraft so he coud continue with it!! Also the integration with event attendance would be awesome!

[neofootball]

Is is possible to remove the date & time from the post?

ex: Hello : 10-10-2005 11:30 AM - 04:30 PM remove the part in green.

[Devii]

edit the xml before upload or use the plugin manager to edit the code that generates the thread.

I hope there will be further development on this in the future, right now, however, im having a bit of an issue with times now showing up quiet right all the time..

An example of whats going on is this : Ill post an event that spans two days, starts at 1pm ends at 7am, but when it posts it shows up as 1pm to 6am on the thread title, if I try to hard code a time adjustment, it works but for only a case like this, if I do a single day range, where usually it would show fine, will be offset on the ending say by -1 hr.

Any ideas on howto deal with this?