Converting vBulletin widget to WordPress

[ExoticAgenda]

Hi, I have a snippet of code that I found and use as a widget to display the next 5 upcoming events in my calendar. I am looking to port this over to WordPress as that is now my homepage. The code is below. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

PHP Code:

ob_start(); 


//  %d 
$show_count = 5; 

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

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

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

     if($event['dateline_to'] == 0 ) 
     { 
         $format = sprintf("On %s",date('jS M Y',$event['dateline_from'])); 
     } else { 
         $format = sprintf("From %s to %s",date('jS M Y',$event['dateline_from']),date('jS M Y',$event['dateline_to']));
     } 
      
     $output_bits .= sprintf(' 
        <div class = "cms_widget_post_bit"><h4 class="cms_widget_post_header"><a href="calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=%d"><p style="color:red">%s</p></a></h4> 
            <p class="cms_widget_post_content">%s</p> 
        </div> 
        ',$event['eventid'],$event['title'],$format); 

} 
$output = $output_bits; 

ob_end_clean(); 


[LifesGreatestGift]

why convert it? just install a php code widget on wordpress, chdir to the forum directory require global.php, change back and bam.

[ExoticAgenda]

How would I do that? WordPress and vBulletin are both installed on the root of my website. When i chdir i get this error:
Fatal error: Access to undeclared static property: VB::$db

thanks

[kh99]

If vb's global.php is in the same directory as the script that's running your code, then you don't need to chdir. If you still get that error, try removing the VB:: from in front of $db.

[ExoticAgenda]

I did that, I removed the VB:: and now nothing shows up (atleast no errors), but now I am not sure what to check next. thanks

[kh99]

A vb widget only sets $output to the widget html. I don't know how a WordPress widget works, but unless it works exactly the same way then you're probably not going to get any output.

[ExoticAgenda]

hm, ok. is there any way to figure out how to display the text? Or am I going to need to have a widget made from scratch that queries the table. thanks

[kh99]

I think what you need is some info on how to write a WordPress widget (which may be quite different than a vb widget even though they're both called widgets). Of course this is a vb forum and not WP, but someone here probably knows. Or you could try a wordpress forum.

[ExoticAgenda]

yeah ill need to look into that, thanks for the help though

[ExoticAgenda]

To follow up on this, I got it working. I needed to echo out the output and remove the vB:: and other small things. But it works now.

PHP Code:

<?php

global $db;

require('global.php');

//  %d  
$show_count = 5;  

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

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

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

     if($event['dateline_to'] == 0 )  
     {  
         $format = sprintf("On %s",date('jS M Y',$event['dateline_from']));  
     } else {  
         $format = sprintf("From %s to %s",date('jS M Y',$event['dateline_from']),date('jS M Y',$event['dateline_to']));
     }  
       
     $output_bits .= sprintf('  
        <div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 25px;"><b><a href="calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=%d">%s</a></b>   
            %s</div><br />          
        ',$event['eventid'],$event['title'],$format);  

}  
 
echo "$output_bits";
echo "<a style='margin-right: auto;' href='http://www.exoticagenda.com/calendar.php'>See more events</a>";
?>