[RELEASE v2] Today's Events on Main Forum Page

my first hack, enjoy...

Today's Events on Main Forum Page
Hack Version: 4

Description:
Lists today's events on the main page, under the Online Users & Birthdays (both public, and private events).
*Version 2 adds the ability to list either bulleted or linear
*Version 3 uses the users timezone adjusted date, rather than the servers date
*Version 4 fixes a type-o on line 47ish, and adds one bit of instruction if using the bulleted list, rather than linear

Files to Add: todaysevents.php
Files to Edit: index.php
Templates to Edit: forumhome_loggedinusers
Templates to Add: calendar_privateevent_linear, calendar_publicevent_linear
Demo:
Bulleted:

Linear:


upgrade from version 2:
0) backup necessary files
1) upload new todaysevents.php
2) done

upgrade from version 2:
0) backup necessary files
1) upload new todaysevents.php
2) done

upgrade from version 1:
0) backup necessary files
1) upload new todaysevents.php
2) add 2 templates
(NOTE: there is an important space after the comma at the end, and an extra space in {calpubliccolor } and {calprivatecolor })

calendar_publicevent_linear

PHP Code:

<a href="calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=$eventid"><smallfont color="{calpubliccolor }">$eventsubject</smallfont></a>, 


calendar_privateevent_linear

PHP Code:

<a href="calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=$eventid"><smallfont color="{calprivatecolor }">$eventsubject</smallfont></a>, 


3) edit todaysevents.php to either show bulleted or linear events (comment or uncomment the corresponding eval statement)
4) done



First Time Installation:
0) backup everything, just in case
1) upload todaysevents.php to your main vbulletin directory
2) edit index.php
after this:

PHP Code:

if ($displayloggedin) { 


add this:

PHP Code:

require('./todaysevents.php'); 


3) edit the 'forumhome_loggedinusers' template
change this:

PHP Code:

$birthdaybits</smallfont></td> 


to this:

PHP Code:

$birthdaybits
$todaysevents</smallfont></td> 


4) add 2 templates
(NOTE: there is an important space after the comma at the end, and an extra space in {calpubliccolor } and {calprivatecolor })

calendar_publicevent_linear

PHP Code:

<a href="calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=$eventid"><smallfont color="{calpubliccolor }">$eventsubject</smallfont></a>, 


calendar_privateevent_linear

PHP Code:

<a href="calendar.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&eventid=$eventid"><smallfont color="{calprivatecolor }">$eventsubject</smallfont></a>, 


5) edit todaysevents.php to either show bulleted or linear events (comment or uncomment the corresponding eval statement, and the line near the end doing the substr)

6) All done.


one person downloaded version 4, i didnt test my change, and forgot to comment out a line.
line 10 needs comments for that one person who downloaded the bad version 4

this one is fixed, fyi (its at the bottom somewhere)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...943#post141943

[Dave#]

how would one make the events be pulled from this week or even this month?

[mister]

mess with the where clause of the sql query, and possibly $today.

[Dave#]

Originally posted by mister
mess with the where clause of the sql query, and possibly $today.

mmm

PHP Code:

$today = vbdate("Y-m-d",time()); 


How do we make this a week?

[mister]

check out calendar.php

you'll need to do something like this

PHP Code:


  // Load the events for the month!
  $events=$DB_site->query("SELECT eventid, subject, eventdate, public
                   FROM calendar_events
                   WHERE eventdate
                   LIKE '$year-$doublemonth-%' AND ((userid = '$bbuserinfo[userid]' AND public = 0) OR (public = 1))"); 


and then loop thru $events to the current week, etc..

this hack is for the event of the day, and im pretty busy, or else i'd help further... sorry

[Dave#]

Originally posted by mister
check out calendar.php

you'll need to do something like this

PHP Code:


  // Load the events for the month!
  $events=$DB_site->query("SELECT eventid, subject, eventdate, public
                   FROM calendar_events
                   WHERE eventdate
                   LIKE '$year-$doublemonth-%' AND ((userid = '$bbuserinfo[userid]' AND public = 0) OR (public = 1))"); 


and then loop thru $events to the current week, etc..

this hack is for the event of the day, and im pretty busy, or else i'd help further... sorry

Thanks - if you ever get the time I would really appreciate this hack to encompass more than a day as the coding is a little beyond me

Dave

[Dave#]

just a gentle bump

[CCarissa]

I tried to install this with no success.

When i try to access my forum I get an error on line 79 of my index.php file.

What did i do wrong?

[mister]

paste line 79 of your code into a reply, and we'll see whats happening....

[CCarissa]

Here's line 69....

PHP Code:

   $birthdays = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT template FROM template WHERE title='birthdays' and templatesetid = -2"); 


its a few lines under the new stuff......

PHP Code:

  $birthdays = gettemplate('birthdays',0,0);
  $btoday = explode('|||',$birthdays);
  $today = vbdate("Y-m-d",time()); 


I really appreciate people looking at this for me.

[mister]

can you also paste the error

(and did you mean line 69 or 79?)

[CCarissa]

It was line 79......and darn it if i didnt save the error message. And i dont want to interrupt my users now.

Lets see if i can remember it. I think it was something like, "there is a parse error on line 79 of index.php"

[mister]

ok well

you pasted line 69... i'd need to see line 79 if the error was on line 79


all you have to do to index.php is

after this:

PHP Code:

if ($displayloggedin) { 


add this:

PHP Code:

require('./todaysevents.php'); 


my guess is either you mistyped that, or there was a problem copy/pasting it.

also, make sure that todaysevents.php is in the same directory as index.php (the main vbulletin dir)

[CCarissa]

Im still pretty sure i posted line 79. *confused*

Thanks. I'll try that tonight when the board isnt busy.

[mister]

Originally posted by CCarissa
Here's line 69....

i think i was confused by that

[CCarissa]

D'oh.....sorry, twas a typo