Adding upcoming events to my homepage

FranklinAtlantic · Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 8

I would like to add upcoming events to my website as an RSS feed. I created a new module, but the code it generated has my events listed in it. How can I create a module that will check for newly added events and list them automatically?

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

It sounds like you want to use the JavaScript event list module. Click on Modules on the left (of this site) and take a look.

Guest · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject:

First of all, wow, fast response! Second, thanks for the information, that is what I was looking for.

Guest · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:

Ian,

I cannot seem to figure out why the text in the Events box on our page is so far to the left. Is it creating a list of some sort?

www.metropolitannurse.com

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

There are 2 divs that surround the event list. The first is align center, the second is align left. Try removing the first one.

Guest · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

I removed the first one, no luck, and I removed the second, and eventually both, still no luck. Could it be something in the style sheet?

Guest · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

If it helps, this is only happening in Firefox on both a Mac and PC, and in Safari. Explorer seems to be doing just fine.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

That was my first inclination, but the only align options in the style sheet say 'left'.

You have 2 extra </div> tags left over after the script tag. Remove those. In the TD tag try adding:

style='text-align: left'

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Ahh.. also try adding this to the style sheet:

.thyme_items ul { margin-left: 0px; padding-left; 0px; }
.thyme_items li { margin-left: 0px; padding-left; 0px; }

I get the feeling that is the culprate

Or you can edit the template so that it does not use ul and li's

Guest · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject:

I made those changes, and now the text is in list mode, complete with bullets. Obviously I messed this up. Any other suggestions?

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Remove the UL / LI stuff from the template in the javascript event list and change them them to <span>s

Guest · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

Sorry if this seems really basic, but I just cannot find the UL or the LI within the code.

Here is the line of code which I think you are referring to, can you tell me where I am going wrong?

Guest · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject:

It looks like the script was stripped by the message board.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

It does that Sad

.. If you want to give me the URL and an admin login to your calendar I'll take a look at it. You can e-mail me at ian@extro...

FranklinAtlantic · Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 8

The display on our homepage looks awesome. I was wondering if we can tweak it so that just the initial event is displayed, not the repeating days. We ran across a situation where a 4-day event was repeated on the homepage leaving no room for any other events. I understand why it happens, and it makes sense, but it looked like a mistake.