[Block] Calendar Event Extraction (php Article)

[zapiy]

Hi brilliant mod, any chance it could show a rolling 4 week period? Hence its always an upto date block.

Cheers

[Ianedres]

Have you looked at the aforementioned strtotime php function on php.net mentioned in the thread?

It is very versatile in selecting a range.

[zapiy]

I will take a look but its a mine field to me lol..

[Ianedres]

View the strtotime function and set the $end variable in this line:

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$end = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("next Sunday")); // see php.net for strtotime function examples; very robust!


"next Sunday" can be altered to "+4 weeks" or "next month" to accomplish a sliding range to look forward into your calendar. It may not detect everything you try, but you should be able find something that will work for you there.

[zapiy]

Cheers fella i will have a play.

[Mick]

Very cool.   I dig this


The php.net thread was a mile long so i had to take a guess on how to make this event code to look a whole year ahead.

I replaced  "next Sunday"   for "+1 year" and it seems to work.

http://www.chevyavalancheclub.com/index.php?page=292

Several questions for ya,....

-One thing i noticed,i see a "?" before the event name.  Any ideas why?
-Is there a way to only show 1 line of a 4-5 day event instead of showing the entire days?

Thanx,
Mick.  

[Ianedres]

Very cool.   I dig this

Thanks, and glad to hear it worked for you.

Several questions for ya,....

-One thing i noticed,i see a "?" before the event name.  Any ideas why?
-Is there a way to only show 1 line of a 4-5 day event instead of showing the entire days?

The question mark I think is the browser not displaying the non-breaking space properly in the lines with ' ' in the echo string. Change the portion in between the single quotes to a single space or a dash to keep the indent...

For one line to be displayed in multi-day events, it would probably require a significant change to the code...

[pimpas]

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// Calendar Event Extraction : Version 1.5 (php Article)
// set range; must be in YYYY-DD-MM format
$start = date("Y-m-d"); // defaults to current SERVER time (no offsets)


1st - You're the man! Excellent work

2nd - How can i set the offset time ? Is it possible?

Best regards

[JPDeni]

I know that Iandres is pretty busy these days, so he might not see this.

You could do something like this:

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$now = $time() - 5 ; //alter this to the number of hours that you want to offset.
$start = date("Y-m-d",$now);


[Ianedres]

Thanks for filling in and getting a fix in motion there.

And, yes, work is very busy lately.