Christian Schneider

Today I had a problem for a customer project. I can’t show you a demo or something else at the moment, but I will do this later… At the moment I can show you only a screenshot:

I have to show the event in a Joomla with the great component EventList. The problem is that the component can’t show all events within a month, e.g. all events in April 2011.

So I started to take a look on the things EventList can do and saw that it can show events today and the next x days. Great

Next step was that I copied the view files and changed a little the information within it, so that I have the possibility to add a new menu entry with a start and end date.

Then I saw that I need to add some information in the router.php in the root of the component for “month”.

At least I need to create a model for month data.

Finished

The result is a set of files which were changed and tested on my development environment.I uploaded the files to our company server: http://www.conlabz.de/component/rokdownloads/downloads/code/joomla/9-patchel

Please backup your existing installation before you uplaod the files. Best way for upload is via FTP.

Let me know if you find something to do better or know something similar (I havn’t found anything )

UPDATE: Please note, that an event must have a start and an end date otherwise the view is not working.

There are a lot of good and useful things out in the world wide web. But some are very useful.

In the last days I created a lot of components for Joomla 1.5 and always I copied files and had to code a lot of stuff. So I took a look around and tried to find if there was some supporting tool for this. And… I don’t believe, but it’s true. I found a Joomla Component Creator, published by Not Web Design.

Here you have to provide some basic information and what you get back is a whole component with the basic files. Ok… You have to code some things, but it fasten your development.

Thank you very much for this generator….