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Just because I post this in the "Trouble Report" forum doesn't mean it trouble, at least no trouble for you, I have to toil over this stuff some to make it work.

I've just finished installin the "Calendar Hack" for the forum. What this means is that there is now a scheduling calendar that you can put upcoing events into.

For instance, I've already entered the "Sunday Chat" for next Sunday at 5PM. Clicking on the link in the calendar brings up a page with any text, smileys, inages, links, etc that are entered when making the event post. Posting is pretty much like posting to the forum, although you have to enter the date and time you want the event to show up on the calendar. Selecting a time span of greater than one day posts the event in all the days between the start and end dates. Handy. You can go back and edit your event post too.

I don't know how useful this will be, but it made sense to be able to make things in advance. Enter your favorite festivals, your birthday if it's important, the next full eclipse of the moon, etc.

There are more add-ons for this, including a "MiniCalendar" that can be placed on pages, and a text field that displays upcoming events in the calendar on pages. I'll look into adding those once I know it's getting some use (and after I figure out how it all works).

For now, the calendar is publically viewable, but only registered users can add an event post.

Registered users can get there by clicking "Calendar" in the left-hand menu. Guests will need to know the address:

http://www.mrsharkey.com/forum/calendar.php

I can make the calendar link show up in the menu for guests if everyone thinks that is a good idea.

Try it out and have fun, just don't go nuts. I expect there will be a few test posts, so please make a note in the text of the message that it's a test and I'll remove them after everyone has had a chance to play with it some. Also please keep your test posts in the month of February so I don't have to look all over hell and gone to find them for deletion.

Feedback and ideas are welcome.

OK, so no comments on the calendar. I do see that a few events have been scheduled, which brings up another question.

Do people want to use this for mundane personal reminders, or are these simply test posts? I don't care one way or the other, but I kind of envisioned it as being a bit less about reminding yourself to buy cat litter than a place to post events, dates, etc what would be of common interest to the forum members as a whole. You know, festivals, gatherings, big rummage sales not to be missed, the next few year's of Bob's performance schedule, etc.

I do like the valentine's day messages, though.

Maybe I just need to sit back and let it evolve into whatever it becomes.

Oh, and Dusty; the link address you provided to the Flaxton Festival doesn't work??

lol....I thought you said to test it and have fun with it?! I won't really use it for a reminder to pay my rent

Pretty cool Sharkey. Thanks

Nice boss

Sorry about that sharkey , I cannot even get the calander to open now , I get this

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',', expecting ']' in /var/www/html/sharkey2/public_html/forum/cal_lite.php on line 137

and this

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW in /var/www/html/sharkey2/public_html/forum/cal_lite.php on line 317

Oh Ack! PHP errors!

Sorry about that back at you. I was doing a file transfer after noodling around in the code some. You must have tried to get in while it was uploading. I'm able to see it properly, so try again.

And for everybody else, I just wanter to make sure that I didn't delete what I thouoght were test posts and then find out your phone service was disconnected or you got evicted because the reminder was gone.

Hello MRSHARKEY and and the gang, I also posted my birthday on the 1st of july if that hurts anything or needs to be removed

I just posted my birthday too, with a reminder that you're all invited-so look in June everyone

Lois

purdy colors

Yes, that's what I've been working on this afternoon. I'm "relaxing" at a friend's beach house and fighting the flaky dial-up connection.

As of now, calendar days with old events have a tan header, the current day is yellow, and upcoming events are dark orange. Days without events have grey headers. It's taken a lot of code crunching to get this to work!

I do understand how much work it takes for this stuff....nice work, Sharkey...it looks great and I think the Calendar is gonna be quite useful.

Nicely done Sharkey , thanks.

I like it!

James in da Graydawg-July 1 is Canada Day, if you come on up we'll throw a bbq for you!

HUGS to All

Have a great day every one

Lois