Scheduled Events Add-On

Extra sidebox created.

When I installed the mod two sideboxes were added to my admin/layout page....one called sideboxes_information.php and the other called sideboxes_information.php.bak

I don't know if it's related, but I also got an error in either box when I clicked on the link in the store. Subsequently found in this forum info to rename database files sans prefix and the proper page now loads.

I tried erasing the bak file from its folder and that just leaves the the entry on the admin/layouts page but with a big red 'error - file missing' message.

Anyone know how I can get rid of that second box? It doesn't appear to interfere....but I'd like to de-clutter.

Please provide a link and we'll try to help.

No link to my site as I'm doing this on test site 1.3.8 local server before I update live site from 1.3.7

I did resolve the duplicate sidebox issue by removing all the files, including the .bak file and reloading (with no .bak file ). Still not sure why it happened but suspect the DB prefix somehow related.

The mod is up and working and I really like it.

Now, for my next task.... I tried to move the link for Events from a sidebox to the CSS Flyout Header. Amazing to me, I got the link to place itself in the header, but the link can't find the actual Events page.

I put FILENAME_DEFINE_EVENTS in templates/my temp/common/tpl_dropmenu.php. and I put HEADER_TITLE_DEFINE_EVENTS in languages/english/extra_definitions/my temp/headermenu.php

In both cases I copied code used for another item in same header, and this worked as far as physically placing the link where I wanted it.

Is there a file address I should be popping in somewhere to direct the link?

I was planning to repeat the exercise using url instead of file name to see if that works. And/or to use the url to place the link in my upper nav bar. (The object being to eliminate the Information sidebox).

Found quick and easy solution in CSS Flyout forum to add Scheduled Events to my Horizontal Information Menu.

A single line of code added in includes/templates/my template/common/tpl_dropmenu.php

I placed this in the file relative to other links for where on the menu I wanted it to appear.

Thanks for doing this mod!

This mod looks like a great start to what i need for my site. I need two other functions though and would lioke to know how difficult it would be to modify this to support them as foolwos.

1. categorise the events based on the product categories
2. have the advanced searc ported to search the events table.

thanks in advance
Roy

You can always add a category column to the database and add it to the sort as a group by.

Thanks 2 questions.

1. I could add a category column but is there a way to use the existing product categories?
2. Where\what do i edit to add the column to the sort as group by?

You'd have to tie the two together with IDs. To me it would be simpler to just fill in the column than trying to get the lookup working with the simple search it now uses.

The Select statement is in inlcudes/modules/pages/events/header_php.php.

HTH

OK Thanks, I'm using the multisite mod and wanted to use it to restrict events by category as well.

how would i go about uninstalling this add on please?

The quickest way is to delete the includes/extra_datafiles/extra_pages_filenames.php
The other files and the database info will still be there, but the option to view events will not.
You can delete the files using the paths in the add on if you want to remove them all.
It' just a reversal of the install.
Did you have problems or just want to go a different way?

dbltoe:

Did you have problems or just want to go a different way?

no problems at all, ive just decided to put on my events as saleable products as i need to sell places on courses and am not really advanced enough to modify the add on

thanks for your help :D

can we add images to the events.

You can add them one of two ways.

Create an extra field in the events table called images or enter the image into one of the other categories. Comments, Special, and Location will all accept 200 or more characters so a link should work in any of those.

If you create an extra field, make sure the type is varchar, the length is 255, and the Allow Null is checked. Then, you'd need to edit the includes/templates/CUSTOM/templates/tpl_events_default.php to add the display of the image field.

Either way, you'll enter html link code for the picture you plan to use. Enclosing them in a div with an id or class will allow you to control the image with the stylesheet.

Remember to use relative links and that the image must be in an accessible directory of your site.

HTH

The shopping cart, is visible only after logging in. Hence the events addon also goes there.
But I want that the events can be viewed without the user logging in.
Pl. suggest.

Hi,

Great mod, thanks for you time and effort.

I have a suggestion regarding the Eventz addon. If you put the Eventz folder into your admin folder it becomes as secure as the back end (ie SSL)

I have to point out that anyone with the admin folder named admin should see https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=33

You could then further add to this by add link to the page in the Tools menu - I'm looking at this now and will follow up with the info if / when I figure it out!

hope this helps

Regards
Natty.

Does anyone have this installed? I'd like to see an example of what it does.

haredoDOTcom russianradiantsaDOTcom hornedlizardcreationsDOTcom diamondwwesternDOTcom for a few.

I'm in the process of making this a little simpler, but it does work with 1.3.9d and 5.3 is not a problem either.

Thanks for the links, it looks really good.

This did work for me!