Calendar / Thread Integration Hack

Ok, this is my first VBulletin hack so please be calm on me As this is a beta BACKUP the files to be edited (as always)

I always wanted to link the calendar events to a thread aswell. So that if you make a public event, it also generates a thread from the same info. Now i always thought this was going to be hard, but actually it is really simple.

There are 5 steps to do in total in just 2 files. It concerns the calendar.php and the newthread.php

I tested this on vb 2.30 & works smoothly now at my site www.livesets.com

what does it do exactly:

• When people push the New Thread button in a particular forum (can be specified as you like) you will be redirected to the Add Public Event screen
• After filling in the required info it generates a public event just like it would do normally
• next to that it will generate a thread in the forum where you pushed the New Thread button with topic title [date] title ( f.e. "[2003-05-14] Awakenings, Amsterdam NL" ) adn the same content as the Public Event
• after that it updates all counters (forum,thread,user)
• redirects to the new thread

NOTICE: on several places you will have to manually insert the forumid you want to use for this, in the example attached here the forumid used was 2

Please give some feedback I'm really happy i got this to work Some members already requested something like this, this is to make them happy :classic:

Greets,
Session.

[DaveLogic]

Has anybody tested this with 2.3.2 - When I edit the Newthread.php everything is fine (redirects to caldendar.php etc) but as a soon as I make edits in Calendar.php using the default ForumIDs of 2 the whole thing white screens...

[DaveLogic]

All OK...Sorted it now....just a typo

[DaveLogic]

Originally Posted by Session

I will post an update soon, i'm close to having it 100% perfect with country / city / eventname selection.. see www.livesets.com

only thing i need to do is make it editable in the same way ( i need to extract the different fields again when i want to edit )

Give it a week or 2

Tried to incorporate with the Add attachment on Edit Post hack by Tommy Boy but everytime I resave the thread it looses the timestamp in the thread subject........Any news on the Reply button BTW...

[FleaBag]

Working a treat on my 2.3.0. Cheers.

[gbarton]

Great hack.

Couple things.

1) How can I get a link in the Calendar Event back to the thread that originated the event?

2) Where in the php code do I change the date format that appears in the title of the thread created? Currently, my format does not match what you have listed. I have 2004-1-7 and yours shows 2004-01-07 with the extra formatted zeros.

Thanks!

[FleaBag]

Anyone have any idea how to port this to vB3?

[gbarton]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

This is an awesome hack, truly loving it

I don't know much about date, still fighting with trying to create an additional calendar field for location hehehe.

Only thing I can think of to improve it a bit more is maybe a link in the newly created event post to the thread?

Thanks so much for releasing this

I agree, this new post link would really enhance this hack.
Anyone?

Again, Great Work!

[scratche]

hi there im lookin for this same mod... i want my users 2 b able to .. post in a selected forum then it post the in my case event on the calendar>>>>>?>?>? will this work for me

[scratche]

ne one........

[TotlKaos]

Sorry to Ask but has anyone ported this hack to 3.0?

Thanks!
Russ