This Day in History
This module displays events occurring on this day in history. For example, if today was January 6th the birth of Joan of Arc (born January 6, 1412) might be displayed.
This Day in History module adds the node type: Historical event, and supports the Node import module for importing historical events. User created historical events are displayed in blocks. Any number of blocks can be created, and the events displayed can be selected by a number of different criteria, including randomly. If no event exists for the current day, no block is displayed.
Features
- Any number of blocks can be created
- Block events can be selected by taxonomy term, user, role and randomly
- A 'promote to block' field is also provided for content selection
- Support for importing events is provided if the Node Import module is installed
- Theming function support provided for block content
Current State
All of the features work as advertised but This Day in History should be considered beta (if only because it hasn't been tested on a large base of sites). Version 1.0 will be released when there are more complete unit tests to validate the functionality.
Known Problems
5.x-0.2: If a month is entered with a leading zero, for example, 01, you'll get the error "Day value is too large". To work around the problem enter the months January through September a single digit (i.e.: 1, 2, 3, 4 ...) This problem will be fixed in 5.x-0.3 and is available now in 5.x-1.x-dev.
Planned Features
- Views support
- iCal support
Releases
| Official releases | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.x-0.2 | 2008-Jan-24 | 16.25 KB | Download · Release notes | Recommended for 5.x |  |