Hopefully my last question before deploying ...

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

Is it possible to link directly to link from Mambo to add event?

I tried this http://box127.bluehost.com/~thecente/thyme/index.php?calendar=Add%20Men's%20Event&event_action=Add

but obviously this doesn't work.

I have built in a front end in mambo at
http://box127.bluehost.com/~thecente/sched/index.php

username tester1
password password

It takes you to a page to make a selection and the options you see are based on what user group you are in mambo (registered, author, editor etc.)

Right now I am forced to stop at the calendar view but I would rather go directly to add event for the specificed calendar.

I think this is my last question ... sorry for all the trouble and thanks for all the help.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

It's no trouble at all.

The link: http://box127.bluehost.com/~thecente/thyme/index.php?calendar=Add%20Men's%20Event&event_action=Add

works for me when I am logged in. This should work.

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

I am sorry ... really dumb typo on my part. Thanks for double checking and yes this does the trick just fine.

Thanks!

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

Hi Again Ian ...

I do notice that although this works ... it always arrives at the add events page with the date set to January 12, 2006. Is there any way to have it start on current date?

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Ah yes. You have to pass it the date as described here:

http://www.extrosoft.com/option,com_forum/Itemid,47/page,viewtopic/t,471/

Or you could create a file called customize/event_defaults.php with the following contents:

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

Thanks!

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

This little file isn't doing anything. I think I did it right ... I put it in the customize directory and saved it with php extension and also made sure that there were no hidden characters

I have been making stupid mistakes lately so I rechecked the code and location for about 30 minutes to make sure I was really having a problem before posting.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Since you are using the locations mod it is not looking at it. I must have forgotten to add it in. Sorry about that. Just under:

$_cal_event->duration = "01:00";

Add

@include(_CAL_BASE_PATH_."customize/event_defaults.php");

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

Thank you Ian.
I am not using the locations mod. It is seeing the file I have tested that. It just isn't doing anything to the date.

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

When I tried it this morning it is now showing tomorrow's date which I can live with. I have no idea why it is working now but it is. Maybe it is some sort of caching thing. Anyway, thanks Ian.

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

Sorry ... I just tried it again and it is back to showing the 12th of January. I have no idea why it showed tomorrow that one time.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Hi Jenn,

Could you post the code from your event_defaults.php file please? Leave out the <?php and ?>

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

Actually I was thinking about this ... you had a link to a way to pass the date in the URL. You were doing this from within PHP ... is it possible just to hard code the date into the url .. i.e. index.php?today'sdate&calendar= ... ?

Here is my code but maybe I don't need to do it this way if I can get the above working.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Sure, you can do this:

JennK · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 108

I was being lazy and hoping that I wouldn't have to do this from within php (it is a series of links on another page outside of Thyme) but I managed to do the echo and concatenate thing. Being a PHP newbie I was amazed that I got it to work! Thanks Ian!