Fantastic experience

[Jason]

I've had my eye on this since it was called easysimple and have now had an opportunity to check it out after being attracted to the description at hotscripts.com I believe it was. It appears everything attractive in the description regarding ease of use, css modifications, and configuration options have not filled me with any false expectations, it's all there and very simple to get on with.

Thanks a lot for an excellent calendar script that rises above all out there for general web site event display useage!

[Jason]

Just wanted to share what we're doing with it (this site is not live yet and the calendar content is in and out until it goes live). Some might say I've gone a bit overboard =D but you only live twice....

We have the little calendar on almost every page (http://mbcokc.com/)

We have a big calendar 'cause people dig a big fat calendar right (http://mbcokc.com/calendar/bigcalendar.php)?

and we have category event listings (http://mbcokc.com/events/) all over (http://mbcokc.com/ministries/) the place (http://mbcokc.com/ministries/adult_prime_timers.php) and more (http://mbcokc.com/service_times.php) to come I'm sure...

As you can see we've got some static pages around the site but as for dynamic content at the moment it will all be done via the calendar. For a church (or other community volunteer organizations I'm sure) with almost everything worth reporting being an event/date-based, it's sensible to start with a calendar as a content management system.

we plan on building RSS feeds for the staff's customized google homepages so they can always have the events listing in front of their faces whenever they fire up a web browser, to make sure everything's current!

flexible fantastic wondermous thank you!

[crash]

Beautiful site!

Care to share how you put all events under the same date heading? I have been attempting this, but thus far have failed.

Thanks if you can share, thanks anyway if you can't! :)

Jon

[Jason]

thanks for the compliment! I'd love to help if I can but I'm afraid I'm not following the question.

"put all events under the same date heading"?

Can you provide a link to the page you're talking about? I have a sneaking suspicion you're talking about the "list mode (http://docs.easyphpcalendar.com/source/Integration/ListMode.htm)"?

[swimmrguy]

Jason,

Well done on how you integrated EPC into your site. It is very effective.

If you are willing to share, I would love to see your template for your list mode. I really like the corner shading effect you used, and I would love to mimic that sort of look for my site.

And I also like how you have the "shadow" effect for today's date on the small calendar. Love to see how you did that...

[Jason]

Sure, I changed the monthly template to:

<!--head-->
<div id="eventslisting">
<!--head-->

<!--body-->
<div class="event s2[category]">
<h3>[title]</h3>
<h4>[date] <span class="time">[time]</span></h4>
<p>[descr]</p>
<div class="category">[categories]</div>
</div>
<!--body-->

<!--foot-->
</div>
<!--foot-->

<!--empty-->
<h1>No Events to Display</h1>
<p>There are no events to display for this time period or event category</p>
<!--empty-->

and then the corner you're fond of is specified via css background-image like so:

.event {
padding : 15px 20px 35px 0;
background : #fff url('/images/calendar/bg_event.gif') no-repeat top right;
}

the today's date thing is much the same, a background-inage applied to the proper class

hope that's helpful, if not maybe open a thread in the support area, I'm not sure this spot was meant for such a thing

[swimmrguy]

Thanks Jason....that was helpful. And a good ad for this script--not only do users get great support from Brian but also from the community.

Thanks again...

[lachatte]

Wow! Nicely done, Jason...the way you integrated the calendar is just beautiful. I'm thoroughly impressed...wowed, even! Not to mention newly full of ideas that I'm shamelessly going to 'borrow' from you and adapt. ;-)

Did I mention, wow!?!

Kim

[crash]

I am looking at your http://mbcokc.com/events/ page that has many events listed under one date. I have not been able to do this is my template yet.

I tried replacing my template with your template code, but no go. My main problem is I don't really understand how it's writing the date and how the repeating function is working. Any clues?

BTW - An url would be fine. I'm sure this has been covered before, I'm just having some problems with the search function on the forum bringing up relevant info.

Thanks,

Jon

thanks for the compliment! I'd love to help if I can but I'm afraid I'm not following the question.

"put all events under the same date heading"?

Can you provide a link to the page you're talking about? I have a sneaking suspicion you're talking about the "list mode (http://docs.easyphpcalendar.com/source/Integration/ListMode.htm)"?

[Jason]

thanks Kim, happy to help :)

crash, I'm not really following you at all I'm afraid to say. That page, that site, is under development, so the page may change from time to time which certainly may be contributing to my confusion.

[crash]

The page I am viewing shows this:

April 15
Event Title
Event Title
Event Title

April 16
Event Title
Event Title
Event Title

What I'm working with right now (my template, modified from monthly) shows this:

April 15
Event Title
April 15
Event TItle
April 15
Event Title
April 16
Event Title
April 16
Event Title

Sorry if I'm not being very clear. Does this make sense? If not I'll screenshot.

[Jason]

If you're talking about this page (or something similar) http://mbcokc.com/events/service_times.php then that's uber simple, all events are entered as one event :)

if that's not it, let me know, provide a URL to the page, or a screen shot with arrows and complex diagrams and whatnot :)

[crash]

ROFL. *sigh* yup, that's it. :) No-go for me, though, as these are user entered events and thus would have to be differing events. Such a shame.

I'll keep tryign to think of a way to get this, but I'm probably going to have to drop my idea. Thanks mate, I really appreciate you following this up.

[Jason]

can't users edit eac other's existing events?

I haven't gotten to the point of mucking with the permissions system yet at all so I've no idea if that's possible or not

[crash]

I'm not sure if they can or not. I guess right now I'm goign to just try to create a direct connect to the database and draw the info from there.

It seems this would be a fairly common request, I'd be surprised if I'm not able to find a way to do it through the program.

Thanks for your help and input!

Jon

[ve9gra]

Yes all users can edit all events (at the moment). Version 7 will allow for finer permission control.

As for having all of a day's events under one day header, it's been requested several times but it is not currently possible. It is on the slate for version 7 though, thanks to the new templating system.

[Jacy]

Is there any way to hack something for this in the meantime?

Any idea when version 7 might be released, even in beta? A ballpark idea, such as 60 days, or 6 months... that sort of thing? I'd love to switch from WebCalendar to this, but the inability to display a list of mulitiple events under one date heading is bit of a necessity.


~Jacy

[crash]

Is there any way to hack something for this in the meantime?

Any idea when version 7 might be released, even in beta? A ballpark idea, such as 60 days, or 6 months... that sort of thing? I'd love to switch from WebCalendar to this, but the inability to display a list of mulitiple events under one date heading is bit of a necessity.


~Jacy
Are you looking for something like on the right hand column here (http://demo.mediachurch.com)? It can be done. If you want to email me I think you can send a message through the forum.

[Jacy]

(Wow, I'm amazed to see that almost every other install of this software seems to be on a church site. Must have really hit a need here!)

I'm not seeing exactly what you mean, crash, but here's my current site, which shows an iFrame of 'upcoming events' culled from my WebCalendar database. I can customize this upcoming feature to pull by category and/or by number of days. I need something identical to this (functionally) but not in an iFrame, which really limits my page placement.

WebCalendar has been great but is considerable overkill as well as not particularly intuitive for the clueless. We really just need a simple events calendar but with lots of custom display options, so I can intersperse pieces of it within the site without being overly in-your-face, the way the iFrame is.

www.stjuliana.org (http://www.stjuliana.org)

full calendar:
www.stjuliana.org/cal/ (http://www.stjuliana.org/cal/)

~Jacy

[Brian]

You can use the List Mode to "pull by category and/or by number of days". All of the options to do this are detailed in the instructions for the List Mode and for the $showCat option.

[Brian]

I'm going to close this thread as it has become way off the original intention of the subject. Please feel free to start another thread if needed. :)