'Add Your Event' module

Tedmiller · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 98

Despite instructions right on our page, some people can't figure out clicking on the [+] sign is how they submit their event. For them, I would like to display a graphical button that says "Add Your Event" -- making the feature so obvious it hurts!

I want it to have the identical function of clicking the [+] sign, but I've looked through several PHP files and can't find the code to copy. I hoped you could point me in the right direction.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Hi,

You may use:

echo("<a href='index.php?event_action=Add&y={$_SESSION['y']}&m={$_SESSION['m']}&d={$_SESSION['d']}'>Add your Event</a>");

jasperespejo · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:15 am Post subject:

I need to implement this too. Which file do I need to modify?

jasperespejo · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:17 am Post subject:

I need to implement this too. Which file do I need to modify?

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Hi,

That depends. Where would you like the link to appear?

jasperespejo · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:42 am Post subject:

Hello. I would like the "Add your event" link to appear beside the "day, week, month" tab of the calendar in a joomla page. Thanks!

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Hi,

You would have to modify the theme. It is recommended that you create your own in this case if you have not already. For instance in the 'default' theme you would edit themes/default/functions.php and add it in the _ex_default_tabs() function.

Let me know if you have any questions at all.

tangella · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject:

I added this feature and it's great. One gotcha is that the same theme function is used for a calendar display as for the new event editor page. Therefore, on the event editor my Add an Event tab appears, and users will use that to add the event (instead of the Save button). Is there a way in the theme tabs function to detect that the current page is the event editor so I can suppress the Add an Event tab on that page?

Mike

werufm · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 36

Why in the blue_goth theme is there no "functions.php"?

werufm · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 36

Totally bizarre...I created a copy of the blue_goth theme and there's a functions.php in the copied folder, just the default theme one. I can't seem to get this feature to show up, though. Maybe Im doing something totally wrong? I just added that bit of code where you said to add it in the functions.php and thought something might happen....

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Hi,

The blue-goth theme actually uses the same functions.php as the slate theme. Let's say you copied the blue-goth theme and called it blue-goth-new. You would copy themes/slate/functions.php to themes/blue-goth-new/. Then edit themes/blue-goth-new/register_theme.php and change this line:

require_once(@constant("_CAL_BASE_PATH_") . "themes/slate/functions.php");

to this ..

require_once(@constant("_CAL_BASE_PATH_") . "themes/blue-goth-new/functions.php");

Sorry for any confusion. That theme was created and submitted by a user, so works a little differently . After you make that change it should all be the same.

werufm · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 36

Thanks, I got that all taken care of. What I want to do is have a tab for adding an event. I PM'd you with a picture of what I'm looking for.

Thanks!

werufm · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 36

Really no help there?

werufm · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 36

nevremind that...saw your other post. thanks again for that, this is awesome!