Add calendar view

This has been added to the latest cvs. I added in a views plugin that runs the nodes through the event_get_calendar api in the event.module. You can see the event views options in the views page type selector -- month, week, day, and table.

It looks like that api is not returning exactly what we need, although it is close. We either need some patches to the api or a different api (depending on whether patching the current api will break other modules). Some of the problems I see are:

* The calendar title is coming back in a td rather than a th element, which breaks css and themes that expect it to be a th.

* The calendar title is displaying the short form of the month with no year, instead of the long form of the month with a year.

* If you try the week option, it returns the whole month instead of just one week, and it returns the month title instead of the week title.

I'd like feedback from anyone who is familiar with the event api. Are there other modules using it that will break if we try to patch it to fix the above problems? Does anyone want to try to propose patches to that api that will clean things up for our purposes?

That's an interesting idea. I assume you would still create the calendar view by running the results through the event api? Or maybe you had something else in mind for generating the calendar. Are you thinking I should pull this out of the event_views module so you can do this elsewhere? I don't want to interfere with whatever your plans were :-)

Well then we still need to get the event api patched to fix some of the problems noted above. This will only work if both views and event are enabled, so it might make sense to keep the calendar plugin in this module rather than somewhere else, but I'm happy to do this any way you like.

Eaton, you're right, there are lots of places it could be useful. The problem is that we need something to generate the calendar template and at the moment the event api is the best way to do that. Using merlin's ideas, we could make any date field a pseudo event, so it could be used for nodes other than event nodes, but we would still need the event api to generate the calendar.

The only way to avoid the need to have event installed is by creating the code to generate a calendar somewhere else, but you would still have to install whatever module was creating the calendar.

I've just uploaded a major update to add to the calendar theme capabilities. It requires a patch to the event module api that I submitted at http://drupal.org/node/68630 to work. If that patch is not committed, I will back these changes out in my next update. Added by the update and the patch to the events module are calendar page types that are getting very close to emulating the look and feel of the current event module, including prev and next navigation links. An updated default calendar view is included that takes advantage of the new features. Be sure to clear your cache. For best results, you probably should delete any existing event views views and re-create them.

I'm seeing some problems in the prev next links where they're off by 1 in some cases. It works perfectly on my local version, but I see errors on the demo site, so it's a timezone conversion issue, probably. I'll have to do some research...

Got the next/prev links problem worked out and updated the cvs. It was an overdose of gmmktime :-)

This has generally been accomplished, although there will be ways to improve it. I'll close this issue and we can open issues for other specific features that are desired/needed.