Re-occurring Calendar Events

Here's something quick and easy. I haven't been contributing lately but this was so easy and so cool, I figured I better share.

I wanted to be able to enter calendar events once which happen every year like Christmas and have them show up year after year.


edit template - calendar_enterevent

find
<option value="2004" $year2004selected>2004</option>

right after it add
<option value="0000" $year0000selected>every year</option>



edit calendar.php

find in (action==display)

PHP Code:

WHERE eventdate
LIKE '$year-$doublemonth-%' AND ((userid = '$bbuserinfo[userid]' AND public = 0) OR (public = 1))"); 


and replace it with

PHP Code:

WHERE (eventdate LIKE '$year-$doublemonth-%' OR eventdate LIKE '0000-$doublemonth-%') AND ((userid = '$bbuserinfo[userid]' AND public = 0) OR (public = 1))"); 


find in (action==update)

PHP Code:

if (!checkdate($month,$day,$year)) 


replace it with

PHP Code:

if ($year=="0000") {
$testyear= date("Y");
} else {
$testyear=$year;
}
if (!checkdate($month,$day,$testyear)) 


jump to ($action == "getday")
under

PHP Code:

$eventdate = explode("-",$info[eventdate]); 


add

PHP Code:

if ($eventdate[0]=="0000") {
      $eventdate[0]=$year;
} 


thats it. Now enter a calendar event and when you pick the year, choose the new option 'every year'. the event will show up this year, next year, the year after. hell it will even show up last year.

I just did it and haven't tested it really well, but it sure looks like it works. let me know what ya think

[Zannie]

Is there a way I can modify this to allow for recurring weekly and daily events?

[gmarik]

Could somebody just make a .txt file with a working version for 2.3 or maybe even 3.0? Thanks

[TheComputerGuy]

I am checking into this now gmairk

[gmarik]

It would be great to make a predefined list of dates of birthdays of my friends, so that vB takes one photo from my, for example, PhotoPost picture DB and sends it as an e-card, so, if I forget to congratulate them, atleast a few lines would be sent.

[JustAskJulie]

Does this hack allow for weekly or monthly repeat events? or is there another hack available?