I have been playing around with WebCalendar and Wordpress for Green Street Studios website that I’m working on. Both those application are great and I would like to use them to their fullest potential but I think I’ve hit a wall. I had some problem making the upcoming.php work in within Wordpress but like the tense of this verb, its history. Let me explain what Upcoming.php does, its basically a page where the latest events are shown outside the main WebCalendar directory.
It’s located in webcalendar/upcoming.php by default. It’s a nice feature to be able to display the next events especially for a dance studios which is always having different events or class on the main page. It could be used to warn of a time change or a cancelation. Both Wordpress and Webcalendar are running the latest version from SVN and CVS respectively on that particular website. What I realized after playing with it on numerous occasion is to get upcoming.php working I had to get rid of the HTML initialization like head/body and so on. It took awhile but I got it working. I call it in within a template that I created for the mainpage which calls it like below and avoid using the iframe because Im not a big fan.
Now, for some reason, I cant get the script popups working correctly with Firefox and IE mac but for some odd reason its working using Safari which is the browser that I used primarily. I haven’t tried IE on a PC because I dont run Windows. I suspect it might create some kind of boo boo. I wonder if its smart to use WebCalendar for a dance studios website or use one of the 999 mashup company that are doing calendaring. It needs to have an interface to add/modify/delete events. I needs to have a way to show the next 10 events. It would be nice to have a way of showing over layering event like how outlooks shows it. Yes, I did used outlook at some point in my life. I also needs to be hosted on the particular host not on some other website. So, anyone out there have any suggestion?
UPDATE: With the latest webcalendar cvs, all those problem are solved. The upcoming.php file is working correctly.
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Hello there,
may I ask you how you got those code working?
If I try to include it, there’s always the “no db_type” error.
If I use an iframe, the message, Site is not available comes up…
I really don’t know what’s not correct…
Please help :o)
Thanks a lot and greetings,
Matthias