[EventCalendar] [PATCH 3] Big Calendar & Category Sort

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Hi, Matthew. I'll give it a go on my local machine.

Does this include the last patch I made?

Chris

On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Matthew Middleton wrote:

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> Version 3 of my Big Calendar patch is attached.  This patch  
> contains major changes from the prior version; it is more than  
> twice the size of the last patch.  The largest change is to add  
> category filtering support, so a calendar or event list can be  
> generated from certain categories.  This will allow you to have  
> different calendars for different categories, rather than one  
> unified event list.  It is applied to the head revision and  
> includes Chris's style fixes.  This changes the syntax of the  
> ec3_get_calendar and ec3_get_events tags, so you will need to  
> change references to these if you used a prior version of this  
> patch.  PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS ALPHA-QUALITY CODE.  UNLIKE MY  
> PRIOR PATCHES, THIS PATCH ADDS LESS-THAN-FULLY-TESTED CODE.
>
> *Category filter support for both ec3_get_calendar and  
> ec3_get_events, that works with WordPress 2.2 (and below) and 2.3.
> ***I put the SQL queries for WP2.3's new tables, but I haven't  
> tested them yet.  Thus, unless you are not afraid of testing  
> bleeding edge code, don't try this patch on 2.3.  I will test this  
> on 2.3 and fix any bugs later.
> *Month and day support for ec3_get_calendar.
> *Option in the XML feed to filter by category
> *Javascript changes to support category filtering
> *Some html output fixes, new class names, etc
> *More comments
> *Descriptions of the categories being displayed, if category  
> filtering is enabled, are listed at the top of the big calendar.
> *Future "front-end" features based on this backend.  (see TODO, below)
>
> The current syntax for the template tags, subject to change, is:
> ec3_get_calendar 
> ("Element_ID",calendar_type,comma_delimited_list_of_categories_to_incl 
> ude,month,year);
> ec3_get_events(limit,  
> comma_delimited_list_of_categories_to_include,   
> the,various,template,options);
> (calendar_type is 0 for a sidebar calendar, 1 for a big calendar;
> comma_delimited_list_of_categories_to_include is in the form  
> "1,2,3,4";
> month is a number from 1 to 12;
> year is a four digit year,
> "Element_ID" is currently unused, but it should be set to a unique  
> value for each instance of the function)
>
> Examples:
>  ec3_get_calendar("my_calendar",1,"3,4"); - gets the current  
> month's calendar in "big calendar" form, displaying categories 3 and 4
>  ec3_get_events(limit,"3,4"); - display event list for categories 3  
> and 4.
>
> The default (with no categories listed) is, of course, to display  
> all categories.
>
>
> TODO:
> *Add interface for selecting a "calendar page" in administration  
> tab to be used for links.
> *Support urls such as http://blog.url/calendarpage/?m=200710&cat=4  
> to display the month's events/posts in calendar form
> *Make link on small calendar link to calendar page to display large  
> calendar, using URL above.
> *Add category selection to widget options
> *Better default CSS
> *Support selecting based on tags for WP2.3, rather than just by  
> category
> *Rework the javascript functions, so that multiple calendars can be  
> included on a page.  (See the element_id option)
> **The multiple calendars bug needs to be fixed even more now that  
> multiple calendars are actually useful - they might contain  
> different categories.
>
> For those who don't want to install a patch, here is a zip file:  
> http://np.zzxc.net/patch3.applied.zip
>
>
> Let me know of any problems/bugs/suggestions, and feel free to send  
> fixes.  Again, I haven't tested this on WP2.3 yet, so let me know  
> if you try it.  More features and bugfixes will be coming in future  
> patches.
>
> By the way, is there any chance of at least part of this patch (the  
> big calendar support) getting in the 3.1.1 release?
>
> -Matthew
>
>
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