By miahjenn on

How many of you use the Event module?

I am currently using it and Hate it. I have heard of people using Date through CCK and Views but I wanted to get everyone else input on how they put events and dates on their website?

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vm commented

At this time I prefer Calendar, CCK, Date and Views

Though that is on Drupal 6.x. I can't tell what version of drupal you are using because you did not tag this thread nor mention what version in your posting.

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miahjenn commented

Sorry yes I am using Drupal 6.x

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laceiba commented

I have recently been using the Calendar module, too. Unfortunately, I am abandoning it. I have a great deal of respect for the developer and all of the heavy lifting she does for the Drupal community, but Calendar is not very easy to use. I am now looking into using a paid PHP calendar such as Thyme or Easy PHP Calendar. I just want something that works and doesn't require a great deal of fiddling. I don't have any need for my users to be able to update or change anything in the calendar, so there's a high likelihood that either of these other solutions will do what I need. I think that calendars and lists of upcoming events is something that the Drupal ecosystem does not yet handle very gracefully.

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vm commented

I don't use the calendar view as it is packaged. I clone it, alter it to fit and use it more for lists than I do for a "calendar view page". ie: upcoming events blocks and past events blocks and the like. Working with calendat and date provided some well spent time working with the views2.module which was a huge benefit.

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laceiba commented

I'd be very interested to see what you have done. Do you have a link that you could share showing what the Calendar module looks like on a site you built?

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vm commented

I don't want to link my sandbox site here. Please use contact form and I'll gladly send you a link.

Once you get a link:
The site shows you two blocks on the left side of the page where these views were built. Using the modules previously mentioned.

The path of the calendar itself is event/calendar though as I previously stated, I don't use that and it's not linked anywhere so I highly doubt users would arbitrairly add that path.

date.module - dev includes the "Upcoming" view. I altered to suit needs of a band site I am working on to list upcoming shows. Past Events block was built reverseing the view of upcoming. As an event passes on the Upcoming Block it transefers to the Past Events block. using operators.

Upcoming uses >= now
Past uses < now