Future events category & anotated calendar working!

That is really nice, Mike. Nice implementation.

Mike, thanks a lot for this.
I tried to paste your eventcalendar2+MMC.php in the Plugin-folder and changed in my sidebar the line
<?php get_calendar(); ?>
into your new
<?php get_event_calendar(X); ?>

In my case into
<?php get_event_calendar(13); ?>

But then I could not activate your plugin although it was on the list in WordPress to activate.

Hence I guess, I do something totally misunderstand.
Must I first “install” eventcalendar2??
In this case I have to read this.
Or do you have an easy step-by-step – “manual”.
I guess only, that some part of my misunderstanding is also my bad Englisch, sorry for this.

I you or some of other user would be so kind and explain this to such a novice like me, it would be great and very friendly.

I do only know, you system with the upcoming events on your homepage is simply great!! I would love to “adopte” it.

Thanks for listening.
Best wishes from Switzerland
Markus

Hi Mike,
Hey, I am very surprised to get so quick an answer, thank really for this.
You are right:
I putted your file as php in my plugin-folder.
Then I went to the “plugin manager” in WordPress and there I saw the new entry like

Plugin: Event calendar
Version: 2.1
Author: Alex Tingle
and the description and finally the blue action for “Activate or not”.

Now I tried to activate, Result: nothing, means, the monitor flickers, but the word “Activate” (Aktivieren) is still there, means, I cannot activate this plugin. I have 3 other plugins (IImage Gallery, IImage Browser and Searchcomment), all other went fine and there is written “deactivate”, what means, they are running.

Well, the next step, I altered my sidebar.php in my Theme-folder (devenir en gris). The line

<?php get_calendar(); ?>

I replaced with

<?php get_event_calendar(13); ?>

where the 13 is the ID from my category for events.

Now I tried to activate your plugin again, then my blog-site with the calender is messy and there is written into the blog-page this:
—————
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_event_calendar() in /home/sinus/public_html/blogxx/wp-content/themes/devenir_en_gris/sidebar.php on line 9
——————

This what happens. I have NOTHING changed in the stylesheet, because … errr, to be honest, I do not know where. Maybe this is the fault?

BTW: I use the newest wordpress 1.51. And as I said, after activating your plugin, it is not really activated, because the “plugin-line” is not “greenish” and the word “activate” stays there (instead of deactivate for a active-status).
I am very sorry, if I made some bad thing and it would be great, if you can find after this description my error.

I thought also, maybe your 6 tables with the monthes have not space on my blog, but I guess, this is not the real problem.

THANKS in advance for think about my problem.
Markus

Uh, hi, Mike,
that all sounds good to me, I have now more info to try. Thanks for this, I will try it in some hours and of course give you a feedback.
Best wishes
Markus

Hi Mike,
Sorry, I was busy. But now I made again a test:
I did as you said.
First I installed FuturePost (plugin).
Then I installed your plugin.
Both I could activate, that was new and great.

Then I replaced my sidebar.php:
The line

<?php get_calendar(); ?>

I replaced with

<?php get_event_calendar(13); ?>

Then my side created this error-message on the top:
“WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 16’ at ]
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND 1) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 16″

Then I deactivated the Plugin “Future post” and the error disappeard, and the calendar seemed to be new, but I could not go to any day.

I know, it must be boring for you, but with this news, do you mean, I have an old MySQL and cannot use your plugin? But the good news is, I saw the first time, that both plugins seemed to work somehow, because I could activate them, and I saw, that the design from the calendar changed. Hence your plugins seemed to work somehow, though not properly.

Maybe, if you have still a hint or an idea for me, I would be thankful.
Thanks in advance.
Markus

Hello Mike,
Hey, cool! I make progress, with your help of course!

1) Yes, I did the same options like you in “future posts”, but definitively this plugin works not here on my computer, it shows allways the same MySQL-error like I posted before.

2) Your plugin works!! Now I know, why the days worked not! I simply had used the entry <?php get_event_calendar(13,’mon’,3,True,1); ?>
but without having a real entry in the category with ID 13.
When I entered one, then everything with your plugin works FINE except:

a) When I have for example an entry for 26.06.2005, I can see this, when my cursor moves over the day in the calendar. But when I click on it, then the main page says “no entry for this date”.

I think, this is, because I cannot activate “Future post”, is this correct?

Then, finally, one single point about your whole system I understand not:
It is your sentence “It uses a customized category-2.php”.

Where do you have this file, and what is in it and how it works?

I used your monthes in my sidebar, and you are right, this does not fit.
Hence I tried to call to get_event_calendar on my main page (index.php) and this worked great. At the top of the page three monthes were created.
Super.

I hope, if you could give me some infos about this “category_2.php”, then I will do it in a manner, like you did on your fine site.

Yes, and just now I went to your site, but at the moment your server or something is down, because I get some badly error on your site.
I hope, you are online back soon and I hope, you have not a lot work with it 😉

Thanks in advance, Mike, and again, your system is very, very close to that, what I a am looking for.
Markus

Mike, hi,
good news: now your plugin works as before and also the “Future post”. I do not know, it it is correct, but I changed in Future post the line in actual:
$content = preg_replace(“/AND post_date_gmt <= .+/”, ‘AND 1’, $content);

and this works. All is no OK except this:

I placed your line for call to get_event_calendar in the mainpage.
Then for example I create a new post and set it to 26.06.2005.

Everything works then, but this posting is then at the top of the main page, even a user posts a new post afterwards.

Maybe with your “category-2.php” I could prevent this, I hope.
You see, I think, to the final target it is now still only a short step.

Now it is still to early to cry HEUREKA 😉
best wishes
Markus