Event Listings

[alisa]

In searching through this forum...noticed the need for an event listing...
simple
Date
Title
Description
Contact
Website...

Did anyone come up with this yet?

I wanted it to be automated like the rest of the listings...
user uploads his info...
I can manually change expiry date if I have to...

Alisa

[midi510]

Something like this? http://www.mammothgoods.com/viewlisting.php?view=53

I'm not done with this template. I'm going to put something like tickets/fee, parking fee, hours, I'm not sure yet. The date is actually three drop down fields (all numbers) then month is replaced by the word. I'm wanting to sort a custom showlisting by the event date. I want Community Events to appear on my home page. This would probably be easier if I was a programmer, but I'm making progress. This http://www.mammothgoods.com/comcal.php is the custom showlisting page, which shows all listings right now. I have very little time to work on this stuff.

Search forums for custom templates.

[alisa]

Hi...thanks for the response...

Yes something like what you have there...
noticed you have different listing categories...such as extra fields for the calendar than the real estate...

it is exactly what I am trying to do...

if you could share how you get the listings to look different with each category I'd appreciate it...
I have a real estate section... and an event section....


I also have a regular front page (not yet live)..../index3.html which links into the classified area...
I am blending reg. html pages along with the classifieds...

Alisa

[midi510]

Alisa,
How's CT? I lived in Middletown and Middlefield in late eighties and early nineties. The info you need is in the forums, but spread around a bit, so I'll try to sum it up here.
1) Create all the categories and extra fields that you'll be using. You can add more later, but it's best to get 'em all in there now.
2) Open viewlisting.tpl.php or viewlisting2.tpl.php depending which format you've chosen in admin. Save it under a new name for as many custom templates as you want. Using html and smarty tags, customize the templates to your liking. For each of your extra fields use one {$extra.0.title} and one {$extra.0.value}. For now use 0 for the first one, 2 for the second, 4 for the third and so on. You can do what you want with the titles and values like for a city title try putting the city and state values together separated by a comma and space.
3) Open viewlisting.php and find

PHP Code:

$class_tpl->assign('listingsection', $rs['section']); 


I have it on line 76.
4) Ad

PHP Code:

$section=$rs['section']; 


below it.
5) Find

PHP Code:

  if($lDisplay==1)
  {
   $class_tpl->assign('body','viewlisting.tpl.php');
  }
  else
  {
   $class_tpl->assign('body','viewlisting2.tpl.php');
  } 


I have it at line 162 of the original 3.1.7 file.
6) Replace the above code with

PHP Code:

if($lDisplay==1)
{
    switch ($section)
    {
             case 1:
              $class_tpl->assign('body','custom1.tpl.php');
         break;
        case 2:
              $class_tpl->assign('body','custom2.tpl.php');
         break;
        case 3:
              $class_tpl->assign('body','custom3.tpl.php');
         break;
         default:
              $class_tpl->assign('body','viewlisting2.tpl.php');
         break;
 }
}
else
{
 $class_tpl->assign('body','viewlisting2.tpl.php');
} 


If you use format 2 I'd put ($lDisplay==2) in the if statement and viewlisting.tpl.php in the else statement. You really don't need the else statement knowing which templates your using, but I kept it anyway. Where I used case 1,2,3 use the category id. If you click on a category or sub category link in your browser a top level category will show up (the URL) as type=xx and subs will show up as sec=xx after that. If you have a lot of categories, I'd go into the database and print a list of cats with ids.
7) Place {debug} in layout.tpl.php. I put it between the head and body. save and upload files.
8)Place an ad in each category that uses a custom template. All extra fields must have some content. Drop downs should include NA or None or something like that and you should put a default in text fields. The ad won't display properly if you have an empty extra field.
9) View the ads and see where things come out. The smarty console will give you an array of extra field info:
Array (8)
0 => Array (3)
fID => 20
title => Company
value => Hoohaa Computer Services
2 => Array (3)
fID => 22
title => Location
value => Mammoth Lakes
4 => Array (3)
fID => 11
title => Shift
value => 7:30am - 4:30pm
6 => Array (3)
fID => 8
title => Wage/Salary
value => $100,000 per year
8 => Array (3)
fID => 21
title => Starting Date
value => July 1, 2007
10 => Array (3)
fID => 23
title => Apply By
value => May 31, 2007
12 => Array (3)
fID => 12
title => Requirements
value => This is a test ad. This is a test ad....
14 => Array (3)
fID => 56
title => State
value => CA
Use this to update your titles and values mentioned in step 2.
If I've forgotten or messed something up I'm sure someone will catch it.

[midi510]

For you module developers, a community calender mod would be nice.

[DGiscombe]

Would this work with v4 as well?

[midi510]

I'm really not familiar with v4.