[EventCalendar] FW: Show events on HTML homepage

Mon Apr 23 18:38:41 UTC 2007

Sara,

Thanks again.  I just came across (on WordPress documentation) that I need
to include two of their files, and then I included one of EventCalendar’s
files, and it works!!!  Of course, you need to make certain that all your
‘.’  And parenthesis are in the right place, but there you go.

I have some basic cleaning up to do on tables, etc., but check out
www.wabashvalleynari.org/index2.htm for the result. (right now, I’m working
in the background before I place it in front.

Here’s the code:

<?php include_once('wordpress/wp-config.php');

include_once('wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php'); 

include_once
('wordpress/wp-content/plugins/eventcalendar3/template-functions.php'); ?>

<?php ec3_get_calendar() ?>

<?php ec3_get_events(5) ?>

Tim

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From: eventcalendar-bounces at firetree.net
[mailto:eventcalendar-bounces at firetree.net] On Behalf Of Sara Cormeny
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 2:29 PM
To: Support for EventCalendar plugin
Subject: Re: [EventCalendar] FW: Show events on HTML homepage

Eek, I'm immediately out of my programming depth here.

You're right, the Bolt site is entirely in Wordpress -- I re-draft I did
recently for my client, who like you had previously had a part-static and
part wordpress-run site.  The design came from another graphic designer, and
I adapted it for the wordpress site, and now he's managing the design of the
site and the client is managing the content.  It's a solution which I'm
pretty proud of -- and grateful that wordpress is so easy to manage that
even a graphic designer and a fabric store owner can figure it out (;^).

But, enough about me.

I'm not sure if it will work for you, but if you convert your static html
front page to php (which is easy on most servers -- just rename it
"index.php" and make sure all your links to it are edited to reflect the
change; test this before going a head.), then maybe a php script like wpget
may work for you.

http://peter.hybridweb.co.uk/projects/wpget

It may not be able to do exactly what ec3_get_events can do, but it may do
enough to satisfy the case at hand, and provide future incentive to convert
the entire site to wordpress (which, once you've got the hang of wordpress,
is pretty easy, imho).

I did a search in google on "wordpress content on non-wordpress pages" to
get that link, so you might try that search for additional potentially
fruitful stuff to try.

Good luck!

-Sara

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1718 M St NW * #123 * Washington DC  20036

202-462-4954 * fax 202-478-0385

sara at paperlantern.com

www.paperlantern.com

On Apr 23, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Tim Schrock wrote:

Sara,

Thanks for the quick reply, but I'm thinking that I may have not explained

myself clearly.  The informational pages we have right now are HTML pages.

>From there, I link to our blog (a subdirectory).  I have it figured out how

to get the htaccess coding and all that such that PHP works in my HTML

files, so we're good there.

I like your website - impressive.  It looks like the whole site is a

WordPress creation?  Mine started out as 5-6 static pages from a

web-designer, and I've been playing with WordPress.

Now, I need to get into the database and pull out the EC posts and put them

on my homepage.  I'm hoping I can include enough template-functions.php

files and just run ec3_get_events(5).

If you care to look, the website is www.wabashvalleynari.org

Tim

-----Original Message-----

From: eventcalendar-bounces at firetree.net

[mailto:eventcalendar-bounces at firetree.net] On Behalf Of Sara Cormeny

Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 2:04 PM

To: Support for EventCalendar plugin

Subject: Re: [EventCalendar] FW: Show events on HTML homepage

I have what I think is what you need, working on the homepage of one  

of my clients.

The code I used was:

<?php

ec3_get_events(

    '2',                               // limit

    '%DATE%: <a href="%LINK%">%TITLE%</a>', // template_event

    ''                                      // template_day

);

?>

The site it's on is at:  http://www.boltfabricboutique.com/ .

Maybe that syntax help is all you needed (ie, get_events, not  

show_events)? Hope so.

Take care.

-Sara

On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Tim Schrock wrote:

Hi, I love the WordPress blog and Event Calendar plugin.  I have  

set up our

website with several informational pages, and then linked to the blog.

Since the EC plugin is available for our regular meetings plus special

events (which I already use on the blog), I would like to show that  

info

on our main index page.

It would be great (but I've already tried) to just call a

"ec3_get_calendar()" function and "ec3_show_events(3)" to get the  

info - it

doesn't work right now, but can "include" the right files from  

WordPress and

EventCalendar so that they do work?

Thanks.

Tim Schrock

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