Calendar Enhancements - Calendar Search and Export

Calendar Search and Download

There is a vB4 version of this mod HERE


Features:
Adds a calendar quick search and advanced search to the Search menu on the navbar. You can search in username, event title, description. custom fields, calendar and by year/month range. You can also export the search results (or the full calendar) as an iCalendar file (for import into a PC, mobile, Google, etc) or as a PDF text document.

Both export functions include email contact information for the event poster (provided that the current user has permission to view member groups and send emails AND the event poster allows email contact).

Also supports automated Google Calendar updates (view your vB site calendar on Google alongside your other calendars!)

You can use the automatic indexing feature in Google Calendars to view your forum calendar (and sync it with your Nokia/iPhone/BlackberryAndroid/etc cell phone). Only calendars that have unregistered user access will be viewable (Unregistered Usergroup->can view calendars & ->view others events to yes).

To setup Google Calendars (http://www.google.com/calendars) to view your vB calendar(s) , select Other calendars->add->add by URL then enter http://your_forum_url/calsearch.php?do=gcal (replacing your_forum_url with your real forum URL!). Google can take many hours to actually index the vB calendar so be patient! If you want to start from a particular year - &startyear=20xx (it defaults to the current year).

Tested with Vbulletin 3.8.4/3.8.5 and vBadvanced 3. Product has no custom phrases or template/code edits. It uses one template hook location in the navbar.


Settings:
None are needed - it does what it says on the tin .

AdminCP->vbulletin->options->message searching options->search results per page

Determines the number of event items displayed per page.


Installation

1. Unzip the download package and copy the contents of the UPLOAD folder into your forum folder.
2. Go to the VB AdminCP->Plugins & Products click "Manage Products". The click "Add/ImportProduct" at the bottom of the page.
3. Click "Browse" button and point to the product-calsearch-(etc).XML file included in this ZIP package.
4. Click "Import"

... all done


Updates

To update- uninstall the product AND delete the uploaded file calsearch.php then re-install as above.

v1.09b
Added month selection options
v1.08b
Now allows reverse date order search (by entering a "To" year less than the "From" year.
Fixed user timezone issue with iCal files

John

[HCGB]

Fixed- re download the 109b version.

[OpenPitLane]

We have rather a large calendar at http://openpitlane.co.uk/index.php?pageid=trackdays and this functionality would be great for our users.

But will it work with 3.6.8 by any chance, or do I need to upgrade?

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by OpenPitLane

We have rather a large calendar at http://openpitlane.co.uk/index.php?pageid=trackdays and this functionality would be great for our users.

But will it work with 3.6.8 by any chance, or do I need to upgrade?

No idea - It doesn't modify the database so it's perfectly safe to test it on older versions.

[OpenPitLane]

Originally Posted by HCGB

No idea - It doesn't modify the database so it's perfectly safe to test it on older versions.

Great - I will give it a test. Thanks so much for replying.

[OpenPitLane]

Originally Posted by OpenPitLane

Great - I will give it a test. Thanks so much for replying.

It won't actually let me import the xml file as we are on version 3.6.8. Is there a way to get round this?

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by OpenPitLane

It won't actually let me import the xml file as we are on version 3.6.8. Is there a way to get round this?

Edit the XML file and, on line 10, change minversion="3.8.4" to minversion="3.6.8".

[OpenPitLane]

Originally Posted by HCGB

Edit the XML file and, on line 10, change minversion="3.8.4" to minversion="3.6.8".

Done and installed. Many thanks.

[OpenPitLane]

I have just noted that on our install, all the dates displayed are one day out. This is the location:

http://www.openpitlane.co.uk/forum/calsearch.php

All our events are saved as single - all day events if that make any difference. I have tried adjusting the timezone back to GMT (as they would have been created in).

Any help appreciated.

[benstillman]

Originally Posted by OpenPitLane

I have just noted that on our install, all the dates displayed are one day out. This is the location:

http://www.openpitlane.co.uk/forum/calsearch.php

All our events are saved as single - all day events if that make any difference. I have tried adjusting the timezone back to GMT (as they would have been created in).

Any help appreciated.

Same problem. Any fix yet?

[benstillman]

Also need to get the emails removed from iCal and PDF. How would I go about doing that?

This is an awesome mod. I'd love to be able to release it to my users.