I installed the Calendarix and played with it a little. Below are the steps to embed it into your eSyndiCat script.
ASSUMPTION 1: My local copy is installed into root folder and yours is in /directory/ folder. This makes difference but I will mention this difference everywhere a correct path is required.
ASSUMPTION 2: You may probably want to install the calendar on the whole site, not only the directory. In this case you will have to tweak it further since I will only show how to do that in directory.
ASSUMPTION 3: I installed Calendarix in a separate folder named [guess it] calendarix/
Ok, let's start...
Step 1
First of all, I had to include minical.php somewhere for the calendar to display. The proper place is template file. I opened footer.tpl and put this piece of code:
{php}
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'../../calendarix/minical.php');
{/php}
If you installed this cal script in another folder you will have to adjust the path accordingly.
In my GreenLeaves template I put the code so that the cal is displayed in the right most column right below Featured Links box, just FYI.
Don't close the file yet as we will need one more line of code.
Step 2
The script uses overlib.js -- the JavaScript library for displaying pop up tooltips when you move your mouse over elements like <a> or <div>. I revealed that a tooltip appears when you hover your mouse over a day in your cal with an event assigned to it; the tooltip displays event's title.
For now we have to set up a correct path to this library since the default installation renders this path invalid. That's why I got JavaScript errors when I tried to move my mouse over the sample event.
Well, in the footer.tpl (which should be still open) I added the this line right before closing </body> tag:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/calendarix/overlib.js"></script>
But since my directory is installed in root and yours in directory/ subfolder you have to add this line (still assuming that cal installation folder is calendarix/ ):
<script type="text/javascript" src="/directory/calendarix/overlib.js"></script>
Save changes and close the file.
Now open minical.php. The author attempted to added the path to the overlib.js in the minical.php but, first of all, your calendar might be put into <td> or <div> element which is not valid HTML since adding <script> inside <td> or <div> is not allowed. Second, the path is anyway invalid. So, just remove the line below:
<script language="JavaScript" src="<?php echo $urlpathtocal.'overlib.js'?>" type="text/JavaScript"><!-- overLIB (c) Erik Bosrup --></script>
Save changes.
Now refresh your directory page. Try to hover the mouse over an event (by event here I mean a day in your cal) and see what happens.
Step 3
Now if you try to move your mouse over links at the bottom of the cal that read like this: << July 2006 >>, you will see that the links are invalid.
First, I fixed the "July" link at the top. Find this line (starts on line #72):
echo "<a class=smallcalmth href=\"".$urlpathtocal."calendar.php?op=cal&month=".$smmonth."&year=".$smyear."\" target=_BASE>" ;
and replace it with
echo "<a class=smallcalmth href=\"/directory/calendarix/calendar.php?op=cal&month=".$smmonth."&year=".$smyear."\" target=_BASE>" ;
Save the changes and refresh dir page. Try the July link -- it should work now.
Now let's fix the << and >> links.
<< means "go to the same page (category, listing, link details, whatever), but display previous month in the calendar", e.g. if you see July displayed, clicking << will display June, leaving all the other content intact. At least this is how I see it should work. The same with >>. So I modified the minical.php accordingly.
At first modifing these urls may seem simple at first glance, but turns out to be a little bit tricky. You cannot simply append ?date=xx-xx-xxx since it will render the url invalid in some cases. E.g. you already have date=xx-xx-xxxx appended to your url (i.e. you already clicked the <<). Appending it the second time is definitely not what you want. In this case you want replace the original date with the new one. Etc., etc.
Well, find the this piece of code (actually I cannot tell what the original line # is since I edited the file):
if (date("Y",mktime(0,0,0,$smmonth-1,1,$smyear))>=$calstartyear)
echo "<a class=smallcalmth href=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?date=$pdate><<</a>";
right before it insert this snippet:
$purl = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (preg_match('/^.*date=[0-9\-]+.*$/i', $purl))
{
$purl = preg_replace('/date=[0-9\-]+/i', 'date='.$pdate, $purl);
}
else
{
if (strpos($purl, '?'))
{
$purl .= '&date='.$pdate;
}
else
{
$purl .= '?date='.$pdate;
}
}
This code generates valid "previous" url. Now you have to replace original url with this one.
In the snippet above replace
echo "<a class=smallcalmth href=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?date=$pdate><<</a>";
with
echo "<a class=smallcalmth href=".$purl."><<</a>";
You are now done with "previous" link. Let's do the same to the "next" link.
if (date("Y",mktime(0,0,0,$smmonth+1,1,$smyear))<=date("Y")+$caladvanceyear)
echo "<a class=smallcalmth href=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?date=$pdate>>></a>";
Right above this piece of code add the following:
$purl = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (preg_match('/^.*date=[0-9\-]+.*$/i', $purl))
{
$purl = preg_replace('/date=[0-9\-]+/i', 'date='.$pdate, $purl);
}
else
{
if (strpos($purl, '?'))
{
$purl .= '&date='.$pdate;
}
else
{
$purl .= '?date='.$pdate;
}
}
Now replace
echo "<a class=smallcalmth href=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?date=$pdate>>></a>";
with
echo "<a class=smallcalmth href=".$purl.">>></a>";
Now save the changes and close the file.
--
Phew! I cannot believe I had patience to write this long long post :jokingly:
If you have any problem applying this just ask me for help.