Publishing your Events with Views & CCK DrupalCamp LA 2010 August 7-8, 2010 John Romine /publishing-your-events-views-cck

Publishing your Events with Views & CCK Install Drupal Event content type Calendar view Event list view field_location feature

Create Database mysql> CREATE DATABASE cruller; mysql> CREATE USER IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cruller.* TO

Download and configure Drupal % wget projects/drupal-6.17.tar.gz % tar zxvf drupal-6.17.tar.gz % mv drupal-6.17 cruller % rm drupal-6.17.tar.gz % cd cruller/sites/default % cp default.settings.php settings.php % chmod g+w settings.php. % vi settings.php $db_url = 'mysql://

Install Drupal in English % chmod g-w settings.php.

Download contributed modules Unpack modules in sites/all/modules % drush dl cck views date calendar devel Project cck (6.x-2.7) downloaded [success] Project views (6.x-2.11) downloaded[success] Project date (6.x-2.4) downloaded [success] Project calendar (6.x-2.2) downloaded[success] Project devel (6.x-1.21) downloaded[success]

Contributed modules: CCK

Contributed modules: Date/Time

Contributed modules: Devel & Views

Date and time configuration

Date and time: Add format

Add content type: Event

Add Date: field_date

field_date: Event settings

field_date: Global settings

Add Location: field_location Added field_location, drag below Date Drag Body above Menu settings

field_location: Event settings

field_location: Global settings

Create content > Event

Home page teaser view

Enable pre-made Calendar View

Calendar view settings

Content: Date – From date Node: Type = Event

Calendar: Month view

Calendar: iCal feed

iCal feed: Add Body & Location, Exclude from display

iCal feed: Style options

iCal feed: content example LA Drupal iCal

Calendar: Upcoming Block

Calendar page: fixes

Add a new view: events

Events page

Events archive

Events: attachment

Events archive page

Theme: link field_location to map cp modules/cck/theme/content-field.tpl.php to your theme folder cp content-field.tpl.php content-field-field_location.tpl.php edit content-field-field_location.tpl.php OLD: NEW: <?php print l($item['view'], array('query' => array('q' => $item['view']), 'attributes' => array('target' => '_blank') )); ?>

TODO: Improve Date display/input Date and time formats (M j, Y g:ia) Date Popup: Timepicker (jQuery) field_date: –label (display fields: inline, views label: none) –years back and forward (-100:+100) calendar view events view