Calendar Enhancements - Show Events & Birthdays on Additional Forum Pages

This hack will allow you to display upcomming events and birthdays at the top of the forum display, show thread and/or search pages. It uses the forums normal calendar permission rules, so only authorized users will be able to see your forum's events. The hack will correctly install for both 3.5.x and 3.6.0 version forums.

Installation:
1. Use the Product Manager to import the product file product-rah_events_on_forum_pages_1_1_0
2. Configure the product options as desired under the vBulletin options, "Events on Forum Pages".
3. Use the Style Manager to add the code below to the bottom of the navbar template.

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<!-- today's birthdays -->
<if condition="$show['birthdays']">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[todays_birthdays]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&day=$today&sb=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$birthdays</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if>
<!-- end today's birthdays -->
<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$upcomingevents</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if>
</table>
<br />

Note that if you do not want the events to be shown both at the top of the forum home page and at the bottom, you will need to remove the original tables from the forumhome template.

That's it. You're done. Enjoy!

Please find sample screenshots of the options menu and the forum display page attached. If you have any questions, please feel free to PM me.

[soulface]

It'd be nice, if there is an option to set specific forum for events & birthdays. for example, I've an forum for members birthdays.. so i only want to show birthdays on that section.. thx..

//Edit .. Oops sorry! MrNase already posted this

[JenniferK]

Originally Posted by Farcaster

In its present form no, but I will see about adding it in a future revision.

That would be great - thank you!

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by MrNase

One addition that might be handy for some: Add an option to select on which forums this information is shown. Imagine someone has a forum where people discuss events - it would be good to show the upcoming events only on that forum because on the other forums it's just an information-overkill.

I second the request for per-forum selection. Although I'd suggest having it the other way round - a list of forums NOT to display it on.

For instance, I use the "Event Forums" mod, which already puts a display of X days at the top of calendar-linked forums. In those forums I'd like to use the Event Forums display for 7 days worth of events, but use your mod to display just a day or two everywhere else.

Other than that, this mod looks perfect for my site.

-- hugh

[Farcaster]

I have confirmed that this hack is working with 3.6.0 through 3.6.2.

[SHD Born2Fight]

I get an error when I use it:

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of convert_bits_to_array(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /is/htdocs/wp1012303_QBSRR1K0AQ/www/board/forumdisplay.php(106) : eval()'d code on line 103

AND

vBulletin Message
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /is/htdocs/wp1012303_QBSRR1K0AQ/www/board/forumdisplay.php(106) : eval()'d code
Line: 103

[Canis Firebrand]

Awesome. I had just did the templace edit manually to show on Forum home and was dreading having to do it all by hand to show other places.

I removed my manual template edit from FORUMHOME and followed your directions.

This hack did the trick very nicely to have it show other places with only the one template edit in navbar. Thanks!

[GHoSti]

Hi!

I have the following problem:

On the forum index I see this (index.php):
http://www.necronia.de/home1.jpg
That's ok But when I switch to a forum I see this (forumdisplay.php):
http://www.necronia.de/forum1.jpg
Same in viewing a thread (showthread.php)

Can someone help me? I'm using vBulletin 3.6.4.

Thx,
GHoSti

[Fangorn]

Hello,

Thank you for this great addon!

One suggestion but I don't know if it's doable since it's probably intertwined with VB... It would be great to be able to select which calendar to display on which forum since VB allows for creation of multiple calendars.

Once again, thanks a lot for this mod, it's exactly what I've been looking for!

- Jeff

[ConKien]

Farcaster, like Jeff suggest, is there a way to make these info display on a specific forum only?

[kizzmet]

Confirming that this works on 3.6.3

Great hack, just what I was looking for. Thanks!