[pmwiki-users] WikiCalendar date markup

Jason Counsel jason_counsel at yahoo.ca
Sat May 7 07:40:05 CDT 2005


Nate, you can check out my calendar at

http://www.k12.nf.ca/williamgillett/index.php/Calendar/HomePage

I kind of suspect that I don't have the look you're going for :) but
you can have a look and let me know.  I don't think I've changed
anything from the default.

Jason C.

--- Nate Cull <nate at natecull.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 12:04 -0400, Jason Counsel wrote:
> > I think some of your concerns might be met by setting the
> configuration
> > settings in config.php:
> > 
> > // This configures how dates are presented.
> > // 0 - american style, 11/17/2002
> > // 1 - european style, 17.11.2002
> > // 2 - international style, 2002-11-17
> > SDV($calendar_datestyle,1);
> > SDV($space_date_titles,1);
> > SDV($SpaceDateString,'-');
> 
> 
> I haven't changed any of these from defaults. A little bit of
> tinkering
> so far hasn't produced anything remotely similar to what I want, but
> I'll keep trying.
> 
> 
> > 
> > (I'm not exactly sure what would be best).  But I see that in my
> > calendar it displays "Thursday, 23 June 2005" in my calendar
> entry...
> > if that's what you're looking for it shouldn't be too hard to
> > automatically make this the link text.  If I figure it out I'll let
> you
> > know.
> 
> Can you tell me what settings you've used for these variables to get
> that effect? I'm certainly not getting that, and it's half of what I
> want.
> 
> > 
> > Jason C.
> > 
> > 
> > --- Nate Cull <nate at natecull.org> wrote:
> > > I'm using the WikiCalendar recipe with beta36, and it's working
> fine,
> > > but I'm a little confused as to how the date markup is supposed
> to
> > > work.
> > > 
> > > Currently, clicking on a calendar date creates a page as an eight
> > > digit
> > > code, ie, Calendar/yyyymmdd. 
> > > 
> > > When you view a calendar page, the title shows as the date short
> > > form,
> > > eg, yyyy-mm-dd.
> > > 
> > > Any occurrences of a date short form (*not* an eight digit code
> as
> > > used
> > > in a link) get changed to a date long form, ie, dd Monthname,
> yyyy. 
> > > 
> > > But it doesn't do this in the title of a calendar page, the only
> > > place
> > > where a short-form date is automatically generated. In other
> words,
> > > the
> > > date long form never gets displayed in any pages generated
> normally
> > > during the use of WikiCalendar. The only way to get a date long
> form
> > > displayed seems to be to manually enter a short form date
> > > (yyyy-mm-dd)
> > > into the text of a page, like so:
> > > 
> > > [[Calendar/yyyymmdd|yyyy-mm-dd]]
> > > 
> > > and then the markup picks up on the dashes and displays that
> > > short-form
> > > date as a long-form date.
> > > 
> > > This seems to kind of defeat the whole purpose of the date long
> form
> > > markup. I don't get what it's there for if I have to manually
> retitle
> > > the links to each date I enter anyway. 
> > > 
> > > What I want is: whenever I make a reference to a date (link to a
> page
> > > [[Calendar/yyyymmdd]]) I would like that link displayed as a
> > > human-readable date rather than the cryptic eight digit number.
> Is it
> > > possible to do this with WikiCalendar as designed, or do I need
> to
> > > write
> > > my own custom date-reference markup on top of what WikiCalendar
> > > provides?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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