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[andrew]

I want to have a calendar on every page of part of my site. I want a drop down menu listing months / years as you have on the demo calendar. Can someone tell me what code I need on the drop down to move the calendar to the required month/year and refresh the page? Thanks.

[Brian]

Try this code where you want the jump menu to appear...

PHP Code:

        <?php
if (!isset($mo)) $mo = date("m",time() - date('Z') + ($gmt * 3600));
if (!isset($yr)) $yr = date("Y",time() - date('Z') + ($gmt * 3600));
    ?>
     <form name="form3" method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>">
        <select name="mo" id="mo">
         <?php
for ($N=1; $N<=12; $N++) {
    echo "<option value='$N'";
    if ($N==$mo) echo " SELECTED";
    echo ">$mth[$N]</option>";
    }
    ?>
        </select>
        <select name="yr" id="yr">
         <?php
for ($N=2000; $N<=2036; $N++) {
    echo "<option";
    if ($N==$yr) echo " SELECTED";
    echo ">$N</option>";
    }
    ?>
        </select>
        <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Go">
     </form>

[andrew]

Thanks Brian - Years work - months don't show up on the drop down but if you randomly click the menu the month does change - any idea why the month names are not showing properly?? Thaks again for the speedy response!

[Brian]

Can you provide a link to your page?

[andrew]

http://www.emevents.co.uk/events/ch.php


only a test page at the moment.

[andrew]

Brian,


I have 'almost' got this going though not in as elegant a fashion as you could! The drop down works but the 'month' in the drop down always shows 'may' - presumably the current month - rather than moving on to thje month shown in the calendar. Still be grateful if yu could take a look at the page and let me know your thoughts. many thanks.

www.emevents.co.uk/events/ch.php

[ve9gra]

The problem with the first thing is that "$mth[$N]" is not declared by the time you use it. So it doesn't display the month's names. And the same thing is true for your problem with the fact the month's name isn't selected for the month displayed. Since it's relying on $mo to verify if the $N is up to the $mo, but at the begining it says "if (!isset($mo)) $mo = date("m",time()..." which always resets $mo to the current month if it's not set previously.

So here, I'm guessing that your globals are off.... you're probably going to have to do a request so that your variables are initialized.

a la: $mo = $_REQUEST['mo'];

try to add that line just before the code that Brian gave you and see if the month sticks to the right spot on the select box.

(sorry for the very jumbled post... i'm not making much sense, hope you can decipher )

[andrew]

Briam,


any comment after seeing the page? www.emevents.co.uk/events/test.php
with help from the forum I have got it vloser but the year keeps defaulting to 2004 instead of 'year'. Any thoughts - this is a commercial client - I have to get this working.
It obviously can be done becaue it works properly on your demo - so where am I going wrong? Thanks.

[Brian]

Please PM me the full code to that page and I'll take a look...

[tomB]

ve9gra is correct in that the $mo is getting reset. The $mo needs to be set to the value returned (posted) by the form.

If you can send me the full code for the test.php file and the form, I'll see what I can do to fix it.

Cheers,

tomB

[Brian]

Even if you don't use overLIB, add the code for it to your page(s) from the instructions and see if that helps with the drop-down script from the top of this thread.

[andrew]

It works! Many thanks Brian - and to everyone who offered help and advice.

regards,

Andrew

[Brian]

Fantastic !

After reviewing the code from your page I saw that it did not include the overLIB code. The variables you need for the drop-down are initialized when the overLIB code is run.

[ashaman01]

I am having the same problem andrew had, i have the overlib code at the top of my page, and i have tried what ve9gra said to do as well and neither seem to be working... I am running an older version, 4.4

http://clubs.cob.rit.edu/misst/index.php

that is the page I am trying to get it to work with.

any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

[ve9gra]

Ok, you're on the right track... but you're following instructions for a later version...

The overLib section that was talked about here, is the automated version... the PHP code looks like this

PHP Code:

<?php $OL=1; require ("calendar/showCalendar.php"); ?>

Since you're using an older version, you have two options...

1- Move your drop-downs below the calendar - which will be processed after the calendar is hence having the mth[] array initialized with the proper month's names...

2- You can replace the $mth[$N] by gmdate("F", mktime(0,0,0,$N))

Or you could also create yourself an array that's the same as mth[] or you could include escalConfig.php before the drop-downs, but those are not-so-clean ways of doing it...

Good luck

[ashaman01]

That worked, thank you very much