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What is Church Events Calendar?
ChurchEvents is a calendar extra for MODx Revolution was initially designed specifically for churches but would be useful in many other contexts. Churchevents now supports templates and translations. There are now 3 Snippets included: ChurchEventsCalendar, ChurchEventsList and ChurchEventsRss.
Required extra Packages
You must install the following packages before you can install ChurchEvents.
- FormIt
- ColorPicker
History
ChurchEvents was written by Josh Gulledge to be a complete calendar for MODX, first release was in early 2011. In November 2011, ChurchEvents was rewretten to meet MODX coding standards.
Demo
See a live demo.
Download
It can be downloaded from within the MODx Revolution manager via Package Management, or from the MODx Extras Repository, here: http://modx.com/extras/package/churchevents
Development and Bug Reporting
ChurchEvents is on GitHub: https://github.com/jgulledge19/Church-Events-Calendar, report any issues or feature requests here: https://github.com/jgulledge19/Church-Events-Calendar/issues.
Install
- Install via the package manager
How to use
To make a calendar on you page:
[[!ChurchEventsCalendar? ]]
Make a list of all prominent events with a limit of 10 on you page:
[[!ChurchEventsList? &prominent=`Yes` &limit=`10`]]
System Settings
These need to be created if they do not exist.
| Name | Key | Field Type | Namespace | Area Lexicon | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allow Requests | churchevents.allowRequests | Yes/No | churchevents | ChurchEvents | Yes | Allow guests to request events. |
| Date Format | churchevents.dateFormat | Textfield | churchevents | ChurchEvents | %m/%d/%Y | This is the format that will appear on forms and when a date is presented. Default is %m/%d/%Y see php.net/strftime for all options. |
| Extended Fields | churchevents.extended | Textarea | churchevents | ChurchEvents | A comma separated list of fields you want on the event form. Example: extend_numberOfPeople,extend_needCatering. | |
| Page/Resource ID | churchevents.pageID | Textfield | churchevents | ChurchEvents | This is the Page/Resource ID where the calendar will be located. This is what all generated URLs are based on. | |
| Use Locations | churchevents.useLocations | Yes/No | churchevents | ChurchEvents | Yes | Use the location manager. If yes events will choose from a list of locations and events can check for conflicts. If no then each event can have a typed in a location and no event is checked for conflict. |
| RSS Page/Resource ID | churchevents.rssPageID | Textfield | churchevents | ChurchEvents | This is the Page/Resource ID that will have the RSSEvents snippet and all generated RSS URLs will go here. |
