[Plugin: Events Calendar] Link to existing post

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Yes, I agree… I think the sidebar calendar works great what with the pop-up events and all but the large calendar just doesn’t do it for me.

At this point the Events Calendar will add a post to the DB but it is inserted as unpublished… If events could be posted as published posts then it would only be necessary to link events in the large calendar to the corresponding post ID or whatnot. Right?

This would be really sweet. Ivé made some modifications to my calendar and this is the last one I need in order for it behave as I want.

The problem is that the events has no connection to any post in the Database. Thus, ID and Title handed out cannot be used.

A somewhat ugly solution is (ab)using the permalink structure. If you put the post in a category that you exclude from showing in the main blog feed you can then use $title and transform i.e “My event 3” to “my-event-3”, and then just echo it with an a href=www.yoursite.com/a-non-date-based-permalink-structure/my-event-3

Doing something like that could work.. if someone could hack the wp title-to-permalink function it’s solved. 🙂

I’m having the same problem but I’m not sure I understand your solution. Check http://www.mondogdl.com. I’d like to be able to hover on a day, then click for more detail, and then click again to link to the post (if one exists). Do I have to modify ec_js.class.php (listed above). Confused.

Thank you for this code but it doesn’t work for me. As I am a newbie, something is probably wrong in my code. Where do I exactly have to put this code in the file ec_day.class.php?

Thank you for your help.

By the way I’m using events calender version 6.4 and a wordpress install version 2.5, if that helps.

Aaah of course! Silly me, knew I’d missed something. You have to declare the $postID variable, as it doesn’t take on any value in the current context. Find the start of your variable declarations, near the start of the php file after all the style stuff. It should look like:

<?php
    foreach($events as $event) {
    if(($event->accessLevel == 'public') || (current_user_can($event->accessLevel))) :
      $title = stripslashes($event->eventTitle);
      $description = preg_replace('#\r?\n#', '<br />', $event->eventDescription);
      $description = stripslashes($description);
      $location = stripslashes($event->eventLocation);
      list($ec_startyear, $ec_startmonth, $ec_startday) = explode("-", $event->eventStartDate);
      if(!is_null($event->eventStartTime) && !empty($event->eventStartTime)) {
        list($ec_starthour, $ec_startminute, $ec_startsecond) = explode(":", $event->eventStartTime);

After this you should set the $postID variable so that it knows what it’s trying to retrieve, as follows:

$postID = $event->postID;

This should solve your problem. The reason this works is that when creating the event through the large calendar in admin, if you tick the “create post for event” box, wordpress DOES actually insert the post ID into the database entry for the event, and so the post and event are effectively linked. The only issue is that, as mentioned above, there is no actual built-in functionality with the calendar which lets your users see the link!

Hope this works.

Chris

Excellent. Just a quick update – the original bit of code that goes at the end of the file, you should move that up so that it’s just before the third closing curly brace, otherwise it’s outside of the foreach loop and will only execute for one event! Not a problem unless there’s more than one event on the same day, but it’s better to sort it out now.

Cheers

Chris