How to make $upcomingevents as a global variable?

[evannn]

Hi everyone

I noticed that $upcomingevents is only applicable to forumhome template. Is it possible to make this $upcomingevents available across all templates?

Thanks

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I have tried to make it global and hooked it at initstart up. Nope. Doesnt seem to be working. Sheesh.

$upcomingevents <-- I just want it to be available @ all templates/pages!

[Dismounted]

IIRC, that data is stored in the datastore, under "eventcache" (or similar).

[evannn]

Hi Dismounted, thanks for the reply.

This is the one: $vbulletin->eventcache

Do I have to write a plugin to retrieve the value? I have tried to insert it into the templates but it returned me "Array". Normal php functions can't work in templating.

Please advise.

Many thanks

[Dismounted]

You need to fetch it from the datastore - inject it into $datastore_fetch[] (if it doesn't already exist in $specialtemplates).

[evannn]

Hi Dismounted,

care to elaborate please?

Many thanks

[Dismounted]

Look in global.php - find $datastore_fetch. Look at what it does.

[evannn]

Hi guys,

No issues. Managed to retrieve data from eventcache. Thanks! But I wish to have the description of the event too.

I have modified "functions_calender.php", function build_events()

Modified the sql statement to

	$events = $vbulletin->db->query_read_slave("
		SELECT eventid, event.event, userid, event.title, recurring, recuroption, dateline_from, dateline_to, event.calendarid, IF (dateline_to = 0, 1, 0) AS singleday, customfields,
			dateline_from AS dateline_from_user, dateline_to AS dateline_to_user, utc, dst
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "event AS event
		INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "calendar AS calendar USING (calendarid)
		WHERE ((dateline_to >= $beginday AND dateline_from < $endday) OR (dateline_to = 0 AND dateline_from >= $beginday AND dateline_from <= $endday ))
			AND visible = 1
			AND calendar.options & " . intval($_CALENDAROPTIONS['showupcoming']) . "
		ORDER BY dateline_from
	");

	while ($event = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($events))
	{
		$event['title'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($event['title']);
		$event['event'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($event['event']);		
	}

The additional of event columns "event" (which holds the description of the event)

But the event column doesn't reflect in eventcache.

What have I missed out or I'm heading in the wrong directions? Thanks

[evannn]

anyone?