Output date & event to an external html

[cramcrew]

Hello. I am currently working on a website where I need the front page to present a short list of upcoming events. I do not need to display the calendar itself or the details of each event. I want it to list only the next upcoming five events. All I want is basically something like this:

Event 1 — November 24
Event 2 — November 28
Event 3 — November 30
Event 4 — December 2
Event 5 — December 5

Also, each event would be clickable where one could click it and go to the actual calendar page listing with all of the other events, cal view, etc.

I don't want an RSS feed, so that information hasn't quite been of use... does anyone have any idea how to do what I need? I figure it's a matter of creating another php file to open the database and call a few variables and then on the mainpage I can do a require php function and call that page. Thoughts?

Thanks!

[ve9gra]

Nope, it's easier than that... use the $LIST mode alone... Crack open /template/modern.php or monthly.php, find which one you want to modify and change it to your taste (rename it something else). Once changed, look at the integration section of the docs and configure the list to only show 5 events.

[cramcrew]

It looks great!

http://www.cramcrew.com/index-new.php

But quick (and probably stupid) question: how do I get the [date] to just write something like "December 1" rather than the day of the week and all that? Through modern.php the main calendar displays it entirely differently, though it also just uses [date], so I can't figure out what the difference is.

[ve9gra]

The format is defined by what's in your $DF variable. You can find the definitions in the date() specifications of PHP.