{mos tags} and other content plugins in Gig Calendar

[spinfx]

Hi

I am using Gig Calendar on the soon to be launched new website for the Perth Blues Club (Western Australia).

One of the things that would be useful would be the ability to add page breaks, slide or tabs into the body of the Band info. Sometimes we have a fair bit of details and it would be good to break this up a little - eg if we want to add videos/mp3s of the bands for promo.

Fotis Evangelou of Joomla Works has an excellent GPL slides and tabs plugin and he wrote some code that allows it to be used in Virtuemart.

See: http://forum.joomlaworks.gr/index.php?topic=35.0

He also suggests that the same could be done to allow modules and plugins to be used in other components. My problem is that while I've installed it successfully in VirtueMart, I simply wouldn't have a clue where to add it to the GigCalendar component.

This would be an excellent additional feature and would allow users to choose whatever plugin they would like to use to enhance the information.

Hope you agree and can help me locate where to add the code.

Cheers and keep up the great work, David 

[Capt. gigCal]

Question to coders:

Is the code on the referenced page allowing mambots to be displayed in a content area?

If so, seems like all we need is to add this code to the notes/info field when it is displayed in the front-end. Please help us to add this feature....very good idea.

[jasonrhl]

I dont know if this is what you guys mean but i use this to add mambots to components. Im only a hack and it takes me a while to work out where these go

this goes at the start somewhere

Code:

<?php
// strart to catching output
ob_start();
?>

and this goes at the end

Code:

<?php
// save catched output in variable
$data = ob_get_contents();
// stop catching output
ob_end_clean();
// execute mambots
echo HTML_SOBI::execMambots( $data );
?>

I will have a play but there is no definite guarantees

[jasonrhl]

sorry above code is for sobi2 component

I use this on another website

Code:

global $_MAMBOTS;

$_MAMBOTS->loadBotGroup( 'content' );

Code:

<?php
$temp = new stdClass(); 
$temp->text = $resultb->notes;
$result = $_MAMBOTS->trigger( 'onPrepareContent' , array( 1, &$temp, null, 0));
echo $temp->text 
?>

you can view a few mambots working here

you will see simple image gallery - Photos
a link to a video - seyret video
and a wimpy mp3 player - my hack as a mambot

[jasonrhl]

HAHAHAHA


I got mambots to work in the gig information screen



I will see if i can make it better and then post what i did.

[jasonrhl]

now hopefully this will allow you to put tags like this in any field (as if you want to) may be just put tags in the notes section.

backup the gigdetails.php in /components/com_gigcal/

rename my file to gigdetails.php from gigdetails.txt

then put my version there.

If a programmer can look at devise a better way i feel that would be for the best.

please remember that i am a code hack that just pastes stuff together until it works.

[Capt. gigCal]

Please post your feedback to this forum. I will be testing as well and will add it to our latest Nightly Builds when enough feedback and testing has accumulated. Thanks for your work on this!

Please let us know which mambots you're using in the content area. It might give other users some ideas of how to use this and if you're having any problems it will help us diagnose them.

[jasonrhl]

I just put a gig poster in the notes

LOOK'Y here

Im using simple image gallery. - http://www.joomlaworks.gr/

[Capt. gigCal]

That's cool. That's what I figured most people would use this for, image and streaming media mambots.

[jasonrhl]

May be I should only allow the bots to be activated in the notes section?

may be is people can suggest what they would use it for I could change it so we don't get other problems

[Capt. gigCal]

Yes, I think that the only place mambots should be active is in the Notes/Info textarea.

[jasonrhl]

rename this to gigdetails.php

[Capt. gigCal]

Awesome, jasonrhl. Thanks very much for submitting this. I have verified this fix works and have committed it the SVN and updated the Nightly Builds with this addition.

Please continue submitting bug fixes!

rename this to gigdetails.php

[Capt. gigCal]

Jasonrhl-

A user is having problems with this modification to the Nightly Builds saying that the HTML formatting is no longer being displayed. The report of the problem is in this thread:
http://gigcalendar.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=76&topic=1050.0

I updated /components/com_gigcal/gigdetails.php with your modification to add mambot support for this text area. You can see the changes made in the SVN on the JoomlaCode.org Development Site. I'm not sure if THIS LINK will work but it shows me the DIFFs between the versions.

Can you take a look at this and tell me why the HTML code would be stripped out? Perhaps I copied your modifications incorrectly?