[EventCalendar] Big Calendar 5 - Read This

[David Garlitz]

Hi Matthew - I've got the Big Calendar up and runnning now, and it's  
definitely sweet. Thanks again for your patch.

By the way, if anyone asks about using the calendar with the Language  
Switcher WP Plugin, I've added filters to your patch that allow the  
titles on the calendar to be displayed correctly in multiple languages.

I have one question and one hack/feature request:

1) I'm getting a text-encoding type of error on the big calendar -  
foreign symbols and even the occasional apostrophe are coming out as  
something like this:  A© . Here's the link to the calendar, you've  
got to go to the month of June to see the error: http:// 
ecolekoenig.com/category/calendar/langswitch_lang/fr

I've seen this before in other plugins, and it usually happens when  
the plugin is sending text in a format other than UTF-8 - is this the  
case with big calendar/event calendar 3? The titles of the events  
display correctly as normal posts and within the RSS feed, so I'm  
guessing it's something to do with either the php file or the js file  
that creates the calendar. Any idea on how to fix this?

2) I'd like to display custom fields in the big calendar. The utility  
of this might appeal to more people than just me, so this might  
qualify this as a feature request, but I'd be happy with a few  
helpful hints on where to start hacking, too. See, I've been using  
custom fields to display additional information about an event (like  
location, entrance fee, etc.). My client has requested that this info  
appear also on the big calendar - while I think this might the  
calendar a little crowded, it does seem like an interesting  
possibility. Where might I start to figure out this little problem?

Thanks in advance, and thanks again for your work on this!
Dave


On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Matthew Middleton wrote:

> That's correct, I made it sort by start date only in
> database queries done by the plugin itself.  This is
> done when returning a list of events or drawing a
> calendar.  When you use The Loop in a custom query,
> you are querying the posts rather than the events.
> (One post may have multiple events, or have no events)
>
> Stay tuned for "Big Calendar 6" - which I will
> hopefully post soon.  It will have several new
> features including recurring event support.  Since one
> post may have hundreds of recurring events, you may
> want an option for a custom query on events rather
> than posts.  I haven't implemented this feature yet,
> but I may do so in the future.  I did make some
> changes to The Loop to support posts with recurring
> events - I will provide a full changelog with the
> patch.
>
> -Matthew
>
>
> --- David Garlitz <dgarlitz at wesleyan.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mathew - Thanks for your work on Big Calendar.
>>
>> I was excited to see that one of the fixes you
>> implemented was :
>>
>> *Sort all events by event start time, not post time.
>>
>> However, I'm not getting this functionality in
>> custom queries. Have I
>> misunderstood what you mean by this? Is there
>> something missing from
>> my query? This is what I'm using in the loop:
>>
>> <?php $my_query = new WP_Query($query_string .
>> 'cat=11&showposts=2&ec3_after=today&order=ASC');
>>
>> but my posts show ordered by post date. Am I missing
>> something?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>> Dave>
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