Publishing your Events with Views & CCK
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Publishing your Events with Views & CCK
DrupalCamp LA 2010
August 7-8, 2010
John Romine
http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sessions/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 cruller@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cruller.* TO cruller@localhost;
Download and configure Drupal
% wget http://drupal.org/files/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://
cruller:password@localhost/cruller';
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 dateNode: 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 http://groups.drupal.org/ical/3002
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: <?php print $item['view'] ?>• NEW: <?php print l($item['view'], http://maps.google.com',
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
