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Upcoming Events in Forum Block/Sidebar



Add the "Upcoming Events" in the forum side block
(Added as a few people seem to have issues with other mods the same)

Start by logging into your Admin cp

Goto Forums and moderators - Forum Blocks Manager and add a new Block.
Call the Block Upcoming Events(Or what ever suits your liking)
Set the block to Active
And use PhP Format.

Now add the content below :

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'])); 
     } 
      
     $output_bits .= sprintf(' 
        <div class = "cms_widget_post_bit"><h4 class="cms_widget_post_header"><a href="calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=%d">%s</a></h4> 
            <p class="cms_widget_post_content">%s</p> 
        </div> 
        ',$event['eventid'],$event['title'],$format); 

} 
$output = $output_bits; 


ob_end_clean(); 
return $output; 


Then just make sure the template to use is set to Block_HTML

This will then show the latest upcoming event from your calendar with multi-day events shown until the last day of the event.



Update Thanks to dcuellar
What this does is add a picture centered above the upcoming event. The picture is uploaded to 'images/' as event.jpg. You can change that to whatever you want. It also corrects the issue I had with the date. It's now projecting the proper date.


NOTE:
I changed the number of events to display to 1.
I do not need the range on my forum so I did not test that part.
Here you go for those interested (change what's in Red):

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'])); 
     } 
      
     $output_bits .= sprintf(' 
        <div class = "cms_widget_post_bit"><center><a href="calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=%d"><img src="http://www.YourForum.com/forum/images/event.jpg" width="200px" alt="Upcoming Event"/><h4 class="cms_widget_post_header">%s</a></h4> 
            <p class="cms_widget_post_content">%s</p></center>
        </div> 
        ',$event['eventid'],$event['title'],$format); 

} 
$output = $output_bits; 


ob_end_clean(); 
return $output; 


Thanks go to cybaGirl for this fix:
Anyone who has the date showing as the day before can use this code in there forum block.

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'])); 
     } 
      
     $output_bits .= sprintf(' 
        <div class = "cms_widget_post_bit"><center><a href="calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=%d"><img src="http://www.YourForum.com/forum/images/event.jpg" width="200px" alt="Upcoming Event"/><h4 class="cms_widget_post_header">%s</a></h4> 
            <p class="cms_widget_post_content">%s</p></center>
        </div> 
        ',$event['eventid'],$event['title'],$format); 

} 
$output = $output_bits; 


ob_end_clean(); 
return $output; 


[Alibass]

That removed the dates which I really did not want to do.

[bif95]

I have an issue with hours. Event is e.g. at 10:00 but the sideblock display 11:00

Any idea?

[ProFifaLeagues]

You can try to set your Time Zone to GMT Does this then work Fine??

[CSS59]

How do I get it to show Date first and then Event name please?

[edytwinky]

What code do you add to show birthdays?

[CSS59]

Originally Posted by CSS59

How do I get it to show Date first and then Event name please?

anyone please?

[Thommy]

Nice Mod! Works fine and easy for 4.2.0 PL2!!!

Is there a way to change Date Format in German?
Now is: 1st Dec.
Perfect for me is: 1. Dezember (or 1. Dez)

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by Thommy

Nice Mod! Works fine and easy for 4.2.0 PL2!!!

Is there a way to change Date Format in German?
Now is: 1st Dec.
Perfect for me is: 1. Dezember (or 1. Dez)

Sorry Thommy I have never Used the German format so know little about it at all sir.
If i can find any info I will be sure to post back for you

[Thommy]

THX for your answer!

I found followings works:

search in your code this: %s",date('jS M Y'
and change it to: %s",date('j. F Y'

Before change: 1st. Dec 2012
After Change: 1. December 2012

At last change Phrases from December to Dezember (for German)

[PoorGuysGarage]

i'm thinking it has something to do with the following :

Specify the content you want to display. If this is PHP code, use a return statement to send your output to the block. For example:

$my_output = 'Hello, world.';
return $my_output;

I'm guessing i need to imput this somewhere in the code?