1. Publishing your Events with Views & CCK SandCamp 2011 January 8-9, 2011 John Romine (jromine) jromine@gmail.com http://2011.sandcamp.org/sessions/ publishing-your-events-views-cck

2. Publishing your Events with Views & CCK Agenda: Install Drupal 6.20 Add Event content type –Add Date & Location fields –Theme Location field Create Calendar view Create Event list view

3. Create Database mysql> CREATE DATABASE eclair; mysql> CREATE USER eclair@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON eclair.* TO eclair@localhost;

4. Download and configure Drupal Download Drupal 6.20 from drupal.org: –http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal- 6.20.zip Unpack into your documentroot Go to folder: documentroot/sites/default Copy default.settings.php to settings.php Make settings.php writable Edit settings.php: –Set username, password, and databasename –$db_url 'mysql:// eclair:password@localhost/eclair';

5. Install Drupal in English After install, make settings.php not-writable

6. Download contributed modules Unpack modules into folders under documentroot/sites/all/modules http://drupal.org/files/projects/views-6.x-2.12.zip http://drupal.org/files/projects/cck-6.x-2.9.zip http://drupal.org/files/projects/date-6.x-2.4.zip http://drupal.org/files/projects/calendar-6.x-2.2.zip http://drupal.org/files/projects/devel-6.x-1.23.zip

7. Enable modules: CCK

8. Enable modules: Date/Time

9. Enable modules: Devel generate & Views

10. Timezone configuration

11. Date and time: Add format string

12. Date and time: Add format type

13. Date and time: Configure formats

14. Add content type: Event

15. Add Date: field_date

16. field_date settings

17. field_date Global settings

18. Add Location: field_location Drag Date below Title Add Location, drag below Date Drag Body below Location

19. field_location settings

20. field_location Global settings

21. Create content » Event

22. Home page teaser view

23. Theme field_location: link to map copy modules/cck/theme/content-field.tpl.php to your theme folder copy content-field.tpl.php to content-field-field_location.tpl.php edit content-field-field_location.tpl.php OLD: NEW: <?php print l($item['view'], 'http://maps.google.com', array( 'query' => array('q' => $item['view']), 'attributes' => array('target' => '_blank') )); ?> Clear theme registry cache: –Administer » Site building » Themes –Save configuration (no changes needed)

24. Location: link to Google Maps

25. Google Maps search

26. Enable pre-built Calendar View

27. Calendar view Defaults: Updated date → From date

28. Change Updated date → From date, Add filter Node: Type = Event

29. Calendar page: fixes

30. Calendar: Month view

31. iCal feed Filters: remove Date, add Node Type = Event

32. iCal feed Fields: Add Body & Location, Exclude from display

33. iCal feed Style: Set options

34. iCal feed: content example San Diego iCal http://groups.drupal.org/ical/1988

35. Calendar: Upcoming Block

36. Generate content: Event nodes

37. Add an Events list view

38. Events page

39. Events archive

40. Events: attachment (ye

41. Events archive page

42. Event Calendar as a Feature Unpack in documentroot/sites/all/modules –http://webfiles.uci.edu/jromine/drupal/ event_calendar-6.x-1.0.tar –http://drupal.org/files/projects/ features-6.x-1.0.zip Enable Event_calendar module (& others) –Creates Event content type –Enables and configures Calendar view –Creates Events list view

43. TODO Improve Date display/input –Date and time formats (M j, Y g:ia) –Date Popup, Timepicker (jquery_ui) field_date: –label (display fields: inline, views label: none) –years back and forward (e.g., 1900:2100) in views argument