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| Project: | WebCalendar integration |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
I just dont get the install instructions... (yeah im a bit slow sue me)
I managed to get the webcal module loaded and enabled it in the modules section and it shows on my navigation menu but when I click the link i get an file not found page (it loads the whole page including a second set of the header and primary links menu as well as the error message)
Im reading stuff about installing web calendar to a different directory as mentioned in this thread http://drupal.org/node/132275 and maybe i am being really thick but i just dont get it...
what do i install?
Are there files other than the module files?
are these the php files?
Do I have to put other files elsewhere? and if so which files?
Do I have to create a new directory? if so where is best? what should i call it?
how the hell do i get this thing to work?
Ive searched for help on this but cant find anything and what i have found just doesnt make sense to me.
Plz dont flame me for not getting it cos from what i gather im not the only one.
If someone could explain the process as they would to the village idiot, I would be extremely grateful
Comments
#1
Wow totally unbelievable, you have got no responses to this post since August. It makes me think more of the potential problems you may encounter after you get it working and then find yourself fishing for help after your site goes Willy Nilly. You have a site up and running with users you implement a cool feature it goes south you can't get help and your users are pissed. Doesn't sound like a module I want to even try out, if you can't get good install or pre install help, G help u after wards if it crashes. I too am having this problem and the install instructions mention:
6. Copy login-app.php into your webcalendar root directory (overwrite the
existing file)
So I did this!
7. Copy user-app-drupal.php into your webcalendar ./includes directory
Here is where I am lost, I have no webcalendar ./includes directory, where or how do I get one? do I have to make one and then throw the file into it where do I create this directory I have /mysite/modules/webcal/2 txt files and 2 php files and a subdirectory called webcal. Inside of this subdirectory is webcal.info and webcal.module. I'm looking at these directories and files with an ftp program. I'm lost too.
#2
as the module webcal integrates the open source webcalendar you have to install that first. so when you download and unzip webcalendar (version 1.1.2 devel would be best - later versions i could not get working, but maybe i did something wrong ;)) you will see, that there is a folder /includes where you have to put the user-app-drupal.php file. also login-app.php has to be copied to the root folder of that installation. i don't know exactly where you had put that file, but if you don't have a folder /inludes it was probably not the right folder.
#3
Thanks for the response back. I did figure out how to get it to work, not exactly the way the instructions put it from the other posting I had found. But the way i have it is working is good enough for my needs. I think the part that integrates it to the user accounts is where I messed up but I am creating separate accounts for my premium users to use it anyhow and this works fine for me because i will be having real world venue owners log into this calendar also and they will more than likely not have an account on my main web site anyhow. So this is all good. I love this calendar and I am looking for ways that i can really spiff it up some such as placing advertisement banners across the top and back ground images with the calendar overlaying those backgrounds. If anyone knows of a way to do this or a link to some help or tutorials that would be great. I will be looking at the calendar site forums too for more on this. I am also planning on having live feeds associated with days of the calendar at some point down the road too. Thumbs up with this program and module guys.
Eric
#4
Make sure you specify correct installation path of webcalendar in webcal.module. For me below changes worked fine
1) Open file webcal.module
2) Edit line 50 somthing like this:
'#default_value' => variable_get("webcal_path", "http://localhost/webcalendar/"),
Edit line 89 something like this
$path = variable_get("webcal_path","http://localhost/webcalendar/");
Thats all.
Regards
Ravi Gupta