mod event title; all views

  • Resolved kusalo

    (@kusalo)


    1 year, 4 months ago

    Event titles in month view can sit a bit flat and overly uniform. I could use ‘full calendar’ with BG color options but I would like to stay with EM.

    I would like to add a ‘bullet’ to ‘tagged’ event titles.
    eg. if I wirte a title as: “zz3 My Event Title” I can alter this in section-dates.php [line ~140] by preg_match testing 

    $EM_Event->output( get_option('dbem_calendar_large_pill_format')

    for ‘zz’ and replace zz3 with a span-dot using array colour[3]

    This works just fine but doesn’t roll over for grid and list view.
    I hope the concept is clear.

    1 – Where to mod the title for grid and list view or…
    2 – can you suggest a cleaner way to implement this.

    Thank you.
    Kusalo

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  • Thread Starter kusalo

    (@kusalo)

    1 year, 4 months ago

    My coding skills fail me and I can’t find direct access to title; pre-load. I played with the template: event_grid_item_format.php but tweaking the placeholder stumped me 🙁

    I see that the title – on event creation – will allow html. This reads cleanly in both grid and list view and can be tweaked in …/calendar/section-dates.php for month view. A bit of a lumpy hack but it will do for now.

    I am generally finding my way with EM and appreciating overall. Thank you.

    This post has been up a week now …
    I will come back in a few days and mark as ‘resolved’ – unless I find a cleaner solution.

    Thread Starter kusalo

    (@kusalo)

    1 year, 4 months ago

    This item has had a bit of time along the way; like fiddling with a loose tooth 🙂
    I am sure there is a cleaner way to do this but I went with adding html to the title on event creation (img above)

    <span class="akEventDot" style="background:#FF0000"></span> ...your title
//this works fine for grid and list
/* calendar view...
.\templates\calendar\section-dates.php
~ line 100 – to allow for html encoding
*/ 	
if (strstr($event_text,'/span')) { // we have a 'dot' situation
$event_text = str_replace('&lt;','<',$event_text);
$event_text = str_replace('&gt;','>',$event_text);
        // replace the html encoding
$event_text = str_replace('&quot;','"',$event_text);
		}
//.......................
// ~ line 160 –
change title format to:
$EM_Event->output(get_option('dbem_rss_title_format'));
[ORIGinal: $EM_Event->output(get_option('dbem_calendar_large_pill_format'));]

    I defined two classes dot and box. Of course icons could be added but I am happy with giving simple distinction to selected events.

    I hope this might be of some use?
    thx – Kusalo

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