Hi

Its fireme asking for help again lol, Ok i have the calendar event module and would like to have next 5 upcoming event on the home page. the same as i got the top 5 latest news articles. But as im not a php guru, i dont know how to do it. So as you are all very nice and helpful i thought i would ask here.

Thanks in advance

FireMe!

$myCalendar->upcomingEvents(5);

where would i put this?

In your homepage controller.

function UpcomingEvents()
{
return DataObject::get_one("Calendar")->upcomingEvents(5);
}

<% control UpcomingEvents %>
<h3>$_Dates</h3>
<h4><a href=$Event.Link">$Event.Title</a></h4>
<% end_control %>

Thanks that worked great, is there also a way if the latest event is in the past to still display as upcoming?, see i dont want a blank part of the home page if there is no upcoming events. if you get what i mean??

Thanks in advance

There should be a recentEvents() function, as well. Try it. If not, I'll add it in.

Also, FYI, the second argument of those functions is a filter in case you want to do something like upcomingEvents(5, "Category = 'Blah')

i tried the following but didn't seem to work.

function RecentEvents()
{
return DataObject::get_one("Calendar")->RecentEvents(5);
}

also i am trying to format the date, the same as i did for my latest news

<div class="month">$Date.Format(M)</div>

<div class="day">$Date.Format(d)</div>

i have tried

<div class="month">$_Dates.Format(M)</div>

<div class="day">$_Dates.Format(d)</div>

but does not work and i get

Fatal error: Call to a member function XML_val() on a non-object

$StartDate and $EndDate are the properties you're looking for. $_Dates is a magic method that returns a human readable date range (e.g. October 10-20, 2009) in microformat compliant markup.