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?

...just a note about "endquote"...

with the latest events regarding his developments, i'm not sure he will be back soon...

btw. it is not a takeover to release some debugs here, it is following the rules of all hacks... you can release any kind of update as the author is absent and it's not against his credits...

just upgrades and updates are good... steal his job would not be good...

so if someone wants to continue the job, release some debugs and give some help, just do it, i'm sure everybody and endquote will be happy with this.

[crash resistant]

yeah im practically begging for this. and will pay.

[Code Monkey]

I would like to see a combined hack. Though, I think it would be more useful if the calender event simply had a link to the thread added to it and the signup was in the first post of the tread.

Obviously more people would find out about the event from the thread itself. It would seem silly to direct them then to the calender for signup.

[silurius]

Originally Posted by JumpD

I would like to see a combined hack. Though, I think it would be more useful if the calender event simply had a link to the thread added to it and the signup was in the first post of the tread.

Obviously more people would find out about the event from the thread itself. It would seem silly to direct them then to the calender for signup.

Agreed.

[Code Monkey]

I've been hacking on the two hacks a bit. Doesn't seem like it will be too much trouble to blend them, or at least make them work together, once you get your head around the code.

[somerfeld]

will add another $50 to the pile!

There should be a rule on absent coders like this to continue development

[auz1111]

how do i edit an event? Somebody has put the wrong date ending so it spans months and I can't figure out how to edit this. Is there anyway to do this without going into the DB?

[silurius]

Originally Posted by auz1111

how do i edit an event? Somebody has put the wrong date ending so it spans months and I can't figure out how to edit this. Is there anyway to do this without going into the DB?

For me, I can edit the date/time information only if I do an advanced edit.

[auz1111]

thanks buddy! I don't know why I didn't catch that.

[EasyTarget]

yes, I would love to use this hack. Its one of a few that I'm waiting on the development to be continued.