Thanks for your tolerance of my endless questions, Dave -
"I will be using cache with the calendar though since events are not something that's constantly being posted."
"I haven't seen it done but I don't see why an entire calendar couldn't be made into an RSS feed... but this isn't something I intend on doing... lol"
Yeah....I never thought I'd be doing this either.....still not sure I'm game...!
After thinking about your RSS comments for a few minutes, and the statements above, I now am wondering if I could set a 6 hour crontab for the twelve main pages for the months? Even if someone posted a reply to the threads for any existing DATE thread, the links would still be valid. Only NEW threads for Events would be 6 hours delayed.
I was planning to use your Calendar this past fall, but from what I've seen on sites using the current version of Calendar, the posts are single entry posts by an author and are not actually threads themselves, so do not allow interactive dialog and information exchange?
We usually post events on the club boards and have questions from visitors and those questions would end up occupying threads on the other boards...does that make sense?
Our need for a deeply interactive calendar that ALL our members can access has been what stopped us from implementing anything so far....and our Admins passed ideas back and forth...and suddenly it hit me...it was so simple.
This idea is very LABOR intensive, but a simple idea and uses standard base code so there's NO CODE HACKING now or later! As far as we're concerned, time spent on the initial database creation is time we WON"T be hacking in old hacks on the next upgrade!
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Heck....I'm not sure how to hook the User ID data from the other instance of UBBT, so everybody can access the new calendar boards with current permissions, but I don't need PMs or registrations or the user Control Panel or any number of features the normal boards use....it could even use the same CSS and other user settings.
Once it's created one time, there's no reason we couldn't distro a copy of the virgin MySQL tables that is the foundation for the Master 366 boards and all the Master Threads. Then everybody who wants to recreate this could simply drop in the entire database of boards and posts, then hook their User ID data in, and build on top of that?
I expect someone will drop on this thread any moment and blow me out of the water with some obvious massive failure of observation or programming knowledge on my part! Like I said, I'm not a language skills guys...just a community builder and ideas guy.
Thanks very much for your time and comments....sorry for being a picky old fart....
Last edited by Roofdog; 12/26/2002 10:33 PM.
