Utilising / Formatting Multiple Calendars

[kevb8ll]

Well 2!

I am putting together a site for someone who has 2 holiday cottages, and this is exactly what we need. After my initial problems with setting up, I now have created 2 availability calendars (ID 2 and 3).

I have a couple of questions.

1. I want to show the two calendars seperately on seperate pages. How should I do that?

2. I have edited the css file, but the changes aren't being picked up in the admin page - is that normal? I assume when I get the calendars on the pages I have, it'll work.

Kev

[kevb8ll]

I've answered question 2, that is OK - but I have the 2 calendars on the drop down at the top of the page - is there any way of linking directly to calendar 1 on one page and calendar 2 on a different page with no drop down menu?

[chris]

Hi,
Assuming that you are using the iframe method you simply need to add ?id_item=X (where X is the calendar id) to the url.
If you have implemented this using PHP you need to define the id before you include the calendar file by defining a GET variable like this:

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$_GET["id_item"]=X;

Chris

[kevb8ll]

Hi Chris

I'm using this in a wordpress install, so that would account for the ?id_item=X not working.

Where do I need to put the "get" command? Does it go in as code on the WP page or as a global on the page template?

I have x2 calendars id-2 & 3 I assume I will need a different get command for each?

[chris]

I'm afraid that I have no idea about Wordpress
In the calendar file that you are including in wordpress you need to place the GET before this line:

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$the_file="ac-includes/cal.inc.php";

Chris

[kevb8ll]

I've been playing and have got it working by using:

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<iframe width="670px" height="900px" src="mydomain/index.php?id_item=1&#38;lang=en" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>

(With a bit of help from a friend!)

A totally different question. Is it possible to remove some of the key items as I won't be using some of them in my application.

Kev

[chris]

A totally different question. Is it possible to remove some of the key items as I won't be using some of them in my application.

Yes, you can deactivate or remove them via the calendar admin panel as required


Chris

[kevb8ll]

Cheers mate.

[vicmontol]

@chris Nice work, useful & easy. Quick (noob) question related to this post.

I`d like to use the calendar for showing booking dates in different houses
The <iframe> above solution is awesome if my item webpage id is similar to calendar item (i.e. www.mipage.com?item=456 loads: www.mipage.com/calendar_dir/index.php?id_item=456)

But if my item pages id are different that my calendar id, I thought that I could use the field "id_ref_external" on bookings_items table to do it.Just want the same result as above.

Tried unsuccessfully:
1) Storing my page id value in a php variable before the <iframe>tag in my template and use it in <iframe src=".....index.php?id_ref_external=$myphpvariable

I think that solution is easier than I thought but I'm stucked. any clues or ideas are welcome!

Kept supporting this nice calendar. Tnx

[chris]

Hi,
To show the calendar for each item you just need to note the id of the calendar item in the admin panel and add it to the iframe url for the item that you want to show.

The id_external_ref is not actually used by the code.

If you are creating the calendar page dynamically you will need to store the relationship somewhere - this is where the external id field could be used but you will need to modify the calendar code to "know" that it needs to use the external_id field when retrieving calendar data as opposed to the default primary key id field.

Chris