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?

[harry1951]

Originally Posted by Devii

Mine works minus moderation and a time display bug on title creation :| Would really love for someone to take this up, ill add 30$ to the pool.

Are ???? also excepted in the pool irate: irate: irate:

[silurius]

Originally Posted by skizzy203

still down to pay... and stilll waiting.

Come on.

I would like to see th Geek pick this one up. Maybe I will PM him on it.

sKiz

Geek is tied up with a few other product releases, including GMART for which I've been providing weekly reminders.

[BlackRanger3d]

do old events fall of the list, or do we have to delete the events that pass.

[silurius]

Originally Posted by BlackRanger3d

do old events fall of the list, or do we have to delete the events that pass.

I believe this particular behavior is unchanged by this hack - so any events that need to be deleted must be deleted manually.

[BlackRanger3d]

Also, does anyone know who to change the code so that it will order events based on year, month then day. Right now it orders based on month first and year not at all.

Thanks

[silurius]

So we have a pool, and we have lots of interest gathered now - any takers?

[OneShot]

@Endquote or Evercraft.
I'm having currently a hell of a big problem. When I tried to set a Holiday for my calendar

Varname : Thanksgiving
Title : Thanksgiving
Description : Thanksgiving [U.S. Holiday]
Recurring option : Every 24th November

The Hack ceases to work. I still can create a new Event, but no attached thread gets made and the nwt_threadid in the Event Table lists always 0. Any idea on how to fix this? Its kinda urgent as I really depend on this Calendar/Forum integration.

Thanks
OS

[endquote]

Erm, hi. Sorry for not being around for a while.

After writing this extension, I ended up getting sidetracked with a bunch of other projects, and haven't gotten back to the site that the extension was written for. I'm not sure when I'll get back to it, since it's a side thing and my other stuff is paying the rent. I'm not able to provide support for the code.

Evercraft has expressed interest in taking it over, but that was a while ago. If he/she or anyone else would like to work on it further, I and the other users would love it.

[EasyTarget]

thanks for the update, I hope someone can continue this project on. Its a great hack.

[admin0]

Is this the best availble for events ?
does it work well with vb3.5.1 ?