Problem combining Easy Php Cal with Wordpress

empiucci · 10-25-2005, 05:50 AM

Hi.

I´m trying to get my calendar to show in a wordpress template. And it doesn´t seem to work. www.prylfreak.com/kalender

It works properly: www.prylfreak.com/calendar

But as seen, when I implement it into a wordpress template there is a database error.

Any suggestions on how to solve this???

ve9gra · 10-25-2005, 06:29 AM

That is because you've isolated the calendar in a seperate database from the rest of your site. Since you're using a content manager, it (the CMS) assumes that you have everything in 1 database and only establishes the database connection once at the begining of the script. Since the calendar is encapsulated in itself, it creates its own connection to its database. If the two connections aren't the same, then the CMS will try to use the connection that the calendar established... This is proved by this little error message...

Quote:

Table 'pfreak_calendar.wp_posts' doesn't exist

pfreak_calendar is your calendar's database, and the CMS is trying to find wp_posts in that database.

To fix it, just move (or recreate) the calendar's table in your CMS' database.

empiucci · 10-25-2005, 11:00 AM

Thanks for the help! Now it works, just a couple of other stuff I need to fix. But i will try to fix them before I post more questions. I´m not that familiar with Php and databases..

empiucci · 10-25-2005, 11:22 AM

Ok, now I do have a new problem. I have tried to set the calendar in blog mode. but when I click on a specific date the browser automaticly redirects to my main page instead of showing the content for that date. Any suggestions??

URL: http://prylfreak.com/kalender

(A great forum by the way, splendid and fast support. Thumbs upp!

)

**Brian** · 10-25-2005, 01:59 PM

Are you using relative paths to "require" the calendar in your page? (You should.)

empiucci · 10-25-2005, 05:43 PM

Yes I use relative path, the following code:

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

<?php
$EPCBLOG=2;
$template="blog.php";
$DF = "l, F j, Y";
require ("calendar/calendar.php");
?>

**Brian** · 10-25-2005, 07:18 PM

What is the full URL to the page:

http://www.prylfreak.com/kalender/?????

Try setting the $thisFile variable to the name of the page:

$thisFile="PageName.php";

ve9gra · 10-26-2005, 06:45 AM

The real URL is http://prylfreak.com/index.php?pagename=kalender with the /kalender just being a redirector.

Brian, there is an issue with the blog mode though... it will wipe out any GET variables that are already there. The next and previous month navigation arrows make sure to take care of that, but when using blog, it replaces everything with $ev, $mo and $yr. If you just reuse the same logic that was used for the navigation arrows, that should fix the problem.

**Brian** · 10-26-2005, 08:56 AM

Thanks. I'll look into it...

empiucci · 10-27-2005, 11:35 AM

Hi again Brian and Ve9gra. I feel stupid here..

But im not familiar with $thisFile variable. Where should I search for it?

Is this a problem you think I will be able to fix? Or should I put the calendar in a pop-up or something so it wont interfere with Wordpress? (which certainly will interfere with the design, so it would be great if I could fix this in some way).

I appreciate the help and look forward for the next post in this thread..

**Brian** · 10-27-2005, 01:09 PM

I should be releasing a new version before the end of the month. Please try this new version and see if it helps.

Diddle · 10-27-2005, 04:55 PM

Brian - by "before the end of the month", do you mean "before November"? It's the 27th of Oct. today.

I'm asking because I'm in a trial (and I'm loving this script!) but I may wait to buy if an update is coming.

I've figured out how to plunk the calendar down in the Sidebar for WordPress but was curious as to how others linked the main (larger) calendar pages within WP?

Also, anoyone having troubles with the pop-up mouseover window? Mine seems to be at the middle-bottom of my page even though the pop-up settings are for 10px. Ideas?

**Brian** · 10-27-2005, 05:11 PM

There should be a release by the end of October.

I'm not too familiar with WP. Hopefully someone will be able to help with those questions.

Diddle · 10-27-2005, 05:18 PM

Cheers Brian - looking forward to the release and I'll keep poking around for solutions.

Diddle · 11-14-2005, 01:47 PM

Got the new version, bought a license - everything is working great.

Well, almost everything. I'm posting this within the Wordpress thread because it might have something to do with that.

The pop-up window (on hover) is WAY off where it should be. I've tried messing with both the offset and fixed positions but it seems to float a few hundred pixels away regardless.

Any tips?

The calendar can be seen at http://www.northshorescouts.ca

Tx!

**Brian** · 11-14-2005, 02:40 PM

Some variables seem to be missing from the page...

Try editing the calendar.php file. Look for:

if (isset($ol_offsetx)) echo " var ol_offsetx=$ol_offsetx;\n";
if (isset($ol_offsety)) echo " var ol_offsety=$ol_offsety;\n";

Replace with:

echo " var ol_offsetx=8;\n";
echo " var ol_offsety=8;\n";

Diddle · 01-03-2006, 04:04 PM

Changed script as indicated, but the box still floats waaay down to the right.

**Brian** · 01-03-2006, 04:34 PM

You may have other javascript on the page that is overriding these settings. Does it do this on the demo.php page? If not, there is a comflict with another script on the page.