[EventCalendar] Big Calendar Update

[Matthew Middleton]

For people using WordPress as a full content
management system, being able to display a full
calendar of events is important.  Currently, there is
no real release roadmap.  My latest patch (patch 4)
works, and you can go ahead and test it if you need
big calendar functionality.  An applied version of the
latest patch is here:  http://np.zzxc.net/patch4.zip
(this contains the full eventcalendar3 plugin with
calendar support)

Please note that some of the code is still messy with
too many comments and bad variable names.  Before this
patch could be committed to a release, it would need
to be better tested and cleaned up.  I changed the SQL
queries to allow for filtering by category, so this
especially needs to be tested.  (A final release of
this patch - especially for 3.1.1 - might not include
the category filtering support, so as to avoid SQL
query changes in the release.)

To generate a big calendar in your template, you might
use ec3_get_calendar("name", 1, "5,6") - where you
want events in categories 5 and 6 to display in the
big calendar.  The second argument is calendar type -
currently 0 is a small calendar and 1 is a big
calendar.  Omit the last argument if you don't want to
filter by categories.  Also, in order for events to
display only once, you must select "Display only
events" (instead of "display posts and events") in the
eventcalendar3 options.  If you don't select this
option, each event will appear twice - once for the
time you posted it, and once for the actual event
time.  (This issue would need to be addressed in any
final release of this code)

If you notice any issues or bugs with this patch, just
send them to this mailing list and I will fix them in
a revised patch.  Also, note that the template tag
syntax is subject to change in future patches and any
final release.

-Matthew



--- Tom Wickstrom <tom.wickstrom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a published development/release road map
> for the Big Calendar
> update.
> 
> When can we expect a new release which includes this
> functionality or at
> least a production quality stable Beta.
> 
> Tom Wickstrom
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