Category Specific Open with Filter.php

[ITWeb]

Is it possible to add a command line to the end of a url that would open the calendar filtered to a specific category while maintaining the filter.php option so the viewer can change it if they wish?

Rick

[Brian]

It would be possible, but would require a bit of creative programming on your part.

For instance... If you always want category 1 to display, plus their selections, put this before requiring the calendar in the page:

$myCat = "1"; // This is the category you always want selected
$showCat = $myCat."|".$_REQUEST['showCat'];

This is untested, but would work in theory.

[ITWeb]

OK, So I guess the answer is not to a simple add on to a URL.
I'll have to create different landing pages for all categories to use the suggested version. A solutions is a good thing

Rk

Originally Posted by Brian

It would be possible, but would require a bit of creative programming on your part.

For instance... If you always want category 1 to display, plus their selections, put this before requiring the calendar in the page:

$myCat = "1"; // This is the category you always want selected
$showCat = $myCat."|".$_REQUEST['showCat'];

This is untested, but would work in theory.

[Brian]

You could pass your custom filter via URL and then change the code to this:

$myCat = $_REQUEST['myCat']; // This is the category you always want selected via URL
$showCat = $myCat."|".$_REQUEST['showCat'];

Of course you can change myCat to any variable name you may want.

[bkwyrm]

Sorry, but I was curious about what I think is the same thing: I was hoping to easily use this to keep calendars for all our meeting rooms in one place. I thought I could make each category/selection a different building/room but I wanted to link to them from a bitmapped map (as requested by my boss). Can I not make links to certain filtered results without having to create a new filter for each one? Can't the filter param be passed in the URL?

[Brian]

Yes. Just use something like http://www.domain.com/myPage.php?showCat=X