[geeklog-devtalk] Making the Calendar A Plugin

[Michael Askew]

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Tony,

I'm not prone to producing reams of documentation before I dive into 
coding (although I do *read* reams of documentation), but I will 
certainly keep Geeklog 2's needs in mind. The code I began writing last 
year to parse the ical file format did take the form of a PHP class, 
and I will definitely try to make the rest of the new code reusable 
where possible in order to save work for Geeklog 2 implementors.

- -Michael

On Feb 6, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Tony Bibbs wrote:


> Michael, given your lofty goals, I think it might be worth noting that 

> GL2 is going to need a calendar plugin.  In fact, in GL2 everything is 

> a plugin.  Anyway, without wanting to slow your progress down, I'd 

> like to request that you think outside of 1.3.x for this.  In other 

> words, I'd like to see you gather some good requirements for the new 

> plugin and document how you will design the solution so that someone 

> on the GL2 side can implement it with little-to-no hassle.

>

> I realize this is a lot more than what you were thinking but if you 

> are agreeable, I'd have no problem taking your ideas and including 

> them when we go to write the calendar plugin.

>

> --Tony

>

> Michael Askew wrote:

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>> Howdy,

>>

>> I opened feature request #364 a few weeks ago because I would like to 

>> turn the Geeklog calendar into a plugin. In addition to causing 

>> everyone headache's during the transition (joke!!!), I wanted to do 

>> this so that calendar could be easily disabled by sites that don't 

>> need it, or replaced with a different calendar plugin (which is what 

>> I want to work on next).

>>

>> I have made significant progress on this and I have set up a public 

>> test site where the "plugged-in" calendar can be seen in action along 

>> side the most recent CVS version of geeklog (which still has the 

>> "built-in" calendar). The test site is:

>>

>>     http://demo.fbcrsingles.org

>>

>> Please drop by and have a look. I would really like to get this into 

>> the official Geeklog distribution (along with removing the core 

>> calendar).

>>

>> Because the site has both the built-in and plugged-in calendars, 

>> there are two "Upcoming Events" blocks, two "My calendar" links in 

>> the User menu, two "Events" links in the admin menu, etc. In theory 

>> the only differences should be the URLs of the pages and the fact 

>> that the plugin calendar can be removed by disabling or uninstalling 

>> its plugin; any functional differences are probably bugs that need to 

>> be addressed, so please mention them.

>>

>> Thanks,

>> - -Michael Askew

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