Forum Home Enhancements - Upcoming Events at top of forumhome

If your site uses the calendar feature, you may want to better publicize events on the forumhome. The default location of the "What's going on?" box is all the way at the bottom of forumhome and is pretty easy to never even see.

So, if you'd like to put another copy of the upcoming events and the day's birthdays at the top of the forums:

First, find your FORUMHOME template.

Go to:
AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Search in Templates > input FORUMHOME & search titles only > edit

Find:

<!-- / guest welcome message -->
<br />
</if>

Just below that add:

<!-- what's going on box -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">


<if condition="$show['birthdays']">
<!-- today's birthdays -->
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead" colspan="2">
			<a style="float:$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?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&amp;day=$today&amp;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">$birthdays</div></td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end today's birthdays -->
</if>
<if condition="$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>
<!-- end what's going on box -->
<br />

If want just the upcoming events without the birthdays, then use this:

<!-- what's going on box -->
<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<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>
</table>
</if>
<!-- end what's going on box -->
<br />

In both of these examples, I've removed the header that says "What's Going On?". If you'd rather have that, then do this:

After:

<!-- what's going on box -->

Put:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>
	</tr>
</thead>

Save the template and you're done.

[Deimos]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

He answered above, try page 1 (just change calendar id# in code)

Not quite
I can't see anything in the code which lets you pull information from certain calendar ID's?

[Gamelobby]

Hmm i guess not then.. i thought it said that there was a code edit somewhere..

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

My question is:
Why did it drag my Xboxlive leaderboard to the top with it..?

^ Bump ^

[Shanj]

What's the outlook for VB 4.0?

Also any possibility of filtering by usergroup permissions what they see?

[Front Range]

Originally Posted by Shanj

What's the outlook for VB 4.0?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=234221

[BigJohnny]

anybody have any idea why my events don't even show up? I can't get anything to display at the bottom or top.

I'm sure I have all the options set right to show upcoming events for the next 14 days, and I've posted a few events, but they only show up on the calendar.

[MagicThemeParks]

Thanks, was looking for a way to do this

Quick question....does anyone know how to display a small image/icon next to each event shown?

Demo: History of the United States

[kopq]

How you do this in 4.2? There is no guest code in FORUMHOME