UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications [6.4 - 6.5] [beta] Calendar

Original Author: jordo.

Description: This modification will add a calendar to your UBB™. UBB™'s birthday will show up in the calendar and add an avatar near the user's name in his/her birthday. You will also be able to post an announcement and set a calendar date and it will show it in the calendar. It's 100% Templetized and Wordletized™ and includes a CP interface.

Requirements: Valid license, UBB™ 6.4.0.

Download: ZIP File or MultiHack File

Demo: http://www.lkworld.com

Number of Downloads: [img]https://ubbdev.com/lk/num.php?s=calendar64.zip,calendar64.mhp[/img]

Differences from 6.3 version: Calendar SSI now can be used as JavaScript, if you add "?j=yes" (or ";j=yes" in little calendar); little calendar SSI: ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi?s=yes instead of ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi.

Good luck!

yay!

I couldn't think of a better way to say it myself...

Question about something in the readme for this one:

Upgrading what? Upgrading the calendar hack, or UBB itself? That seems a bit unclear to me.

I mean if you're upgrading from an old version of Calendar hack which uses field #55

Ah, OK. I got it working after some initial trouble where I could not see any options in the control panel.

Turns out I uploaded the template to the JCTemplates directory - Duh!

Anyway, is there a way to delete entered calendar entries? If something gets in there by mistake, I can't see a way to edit/remove it.

Also, what about entering events with old dates? I wanted to use this on my board and put in the release date history for our old products, but there doesn't seem to be a way to enter events with a year before the current one. I could put them all in the current year, but that's not really what I wanted to do.

You can delete by clicking on the "Review today's events" link, right after the events list

About last year, just put it this year and choose to make it yearly or add "One Year Anniversary"

So there's no real way to add events in the past, eh? Any chance of that happening? I'd really like to enter old dates.

Edit: Thought of a way around it. I can create accounts with the names of our videogames, and assign them birthdays with the actual release dates. That'll work, but I still would like to create events with past dates.

Next year (in a few days) they'll have a hard time ACCESSING '2001, so no need to

MMMnnn, just been testing it on a test board, it seems to work fine with standard templates but not with my jctemplates (latest version). Am i missing something?

I use JC Templates, didn't have a problem getting it working. I had to adjust a bit in the public_common template, but otherwise it wasn't that difficult.

Well, I've been abler to go into 2006 anyway, as Dec 2005 seems to be the highest selectable date in the dropdown, but if you go that month and start using "Next month", you can go further.

Why the restriction anyway? Is there a technical reason why we can't enter dates in the past?

MMnnn, shall have a look again. Thnxs.

No Joe, it's just laziness You can change it to have 2001 in public_new_calendar_event.pl, I think...

Pretty please? I'll send you some videogames.

Found a better way. In editing a birthday event, I noticed it computes the number of years back by using this: <--1993-->

w00t! Forget my quoted idea. I can create them with any old year, and then insert that in there for "Duke Nukem 3D v1.0 was released <--1996--> years ago on this day". Works much nicer than the user account/birthday idea.

Hi There

Trying to install this in 6.40 using JC Templates

I see Joe has it sorted any chance you paste the code here please

Thanxs in advance

slev

At least this one:

Find in Public_topic_page.cgi:
$linkname


Replace with:

$linkname$birthdayfields[3]

Very useful hack LK...I've been using it for the past 2 upgrades. I noticed that if there is a repeating event (every week of every month) there is only the "weekly" option which means if I entered a weekly event in January it will no longer show up in February.

I'm not a coder but is it possible for you to add a weekly option that will rollover every month? Maybe even a monthly option?

You can add this event 12 times

Well not quite the answer I was looking for.

Thanks for replying though LK.

You can add the event once, say in the last week of January, open vars_calendar_events.cgi and add 28 days 11 times? (maybe in the middle add 35 instead of 28)

Hahaa...I guess that's one way to do it. Not dynamic but effective.

LK, I installed this to my test 6.4 board w/the Multihack file, and I had no problems. Thank you for creating/porting such an "easy" hack for people like me!

Just a little adjustment to the calander code to make it more look a like to the other features:

Change this in ubb_forum_summery:

Enjoy it or not, at i will.

It looks great! But when I click the Calendar link, it looks for a ultimatebb.pl file in the /cgi-bin. Where is it?

Disregard! I changed the .pl too .cgi and everything works GREAT!

Thank You!

LK, I do have one suggestion for the Calendar; let's say you click on January 17 ... it'd be great if there would be an "anchor" that would take the user to the actual event at the bottom of the calendar.

Would this be easy or difficult to do?

Sue, it's pretty easy: in ubb_lib_calendar.cgi:
Find:
Not tested, but should work

Quick suggestion ... how about putting the 'calendar' where it shows today's events underneath the 'Recent Visitors' of the main page instead of all the way down at the bottom of all the forums?
And where would you make that change? Please?

public_forum_summary

That doesn't tell me much. What code do I put where and how, etc. etc.

Nice car

Stay on topic!

Just kidding ... thanks. And could you UBB hackers please take a look at my request/question posted a couple up?

No, I do not use JC Templates. You will get a ride as co-pilot when you visit Colorado along with getting back to the original subject.

Ok, just bought the ticket for colerado.

U mean this:


In the file: public_forum_summary.cgi
[code][/code]Pick one of the $calendar options in this piece of code.

Everything works perfectly until I try to add or edit an event. Then I get this message:

"You are not logged in. You must be logged in (and registered) to perform this function.
Login"

Can anyone please tell me if they have any idea what I have done wrong?

if u are using ubb.classic 6.4, then yes.
Download from one of the early posting of me the modified hack which includes the md5 hash encryption needed for ubb6.4++

twslex, what does the MD5 thing have to do with it? Also I couldn't find it in any of your posts in this topic....

I would really appreciate that. Could you please post a link for the modified hack? I am using ubb.classic 6.4.