Integrating with already made CMS

[taurianthebull]

Hello!
I am already an EPC customer and i like using this calendar. I am a PHP dev and i want to integrate this calendar into one of my site that is cms based.

I am using cmsBuilder to manage all the contents of the site. My scenario is to include the calendar into various sections of my site that are admin generated via cms.

I need to know how can i integrate this calendar app in such a way that it gets some info (like location) from cms db and saves it into the db along with an extra table that contains the value taken from the cms.

Remember that the locations are all dynamic, the admin can create more locations inside the cms, so that calendar must be capable of getting these info somehow from the cms.

Possible?

Thanks,
Aamir

[Brian]

Not really sure you'll be able to send data to the calendar this way. There aren't any "hooks" to grab data.

[taurianthebull]

Any solution to this scenario:

Three cities categorized in CMS, containing number of locations that gets events. EPC is needed to show those events on front site under the specific cities and locations.

How can we do this?



Thanks,
Aamir

[Brian]

You can assign events to categories then use the showCat option to filter the calendar by category on specific page(s).

[taurianthebull]

But this filter option displays a drop down box on the page, right?
Any way around to not to show the drop down, instead we send some get vars and the calendar show that category?

I dont want to show the drop down listing on each category page, i want users to find the relevant events in calendar when they go into some category.


Any ideas??

[Brian]

The showCat variable does not show a drop-down list. You're thinking about the filter plugin which is a separate module.

See instructions here:

http://docs.easyphpcalendar.com/sour...eVariables.htm

[taurianthebull]

Cool!
OK, one more thing, is it possible to show list of CMS made categories into the EPC CMS ?

Categories are made under the CMS(not EPC's), and they gets change most of the time. With the current EPC CMS, i guess there is no other way to add categories except by only adding them via the EPC Setup, right?

So, any workaround on this situation?


Many thanks,
Aamir

[taurianthebull]

I also observed that the categories that we made gets saved inside the config.inc.php file in $epcCategories variable.

So, do i need to make my CMS able to alter this variable when the admin adds/update/del the categories(not EPC's) ? and then the EPC CMS will show them in ADD EVENT section ?

If yes, then how can i do this, because i find the herarchy of this variable quite different and not explanatory.

Plase advice,
Thanks,
Aamir

[Brian]

This variable is not designed in any way to be modified by an outside source. So I'm not sure you will be able to add your own categories to the system via the CMS.

[ve9gra]

I second Brian that you should not modify that variable outside of EPC... I tried to create a module that would let you change the order of the categories and I failed miserably