Another question:

when using control children, the events aren't sorted by event date, but by pagetree position.

I need a function that gets all events from the past year:

	public function ShowAllEventsPlease() {
		$startdate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(date('Y-m-d') . " - 1 year")));
		return DataObject::get_one("Calendar")->Events(null, $startdate, null, false, 9999, null);
	}

but now i get a code error, whats the correct code?

Try this:

$startdate = sfDate::getInstance()->previousYear()->firstDayOfYear();
$enddate = sfDate::getInstance()->previousYear()->finalDayOfYear();
return DataObject::get_one("Calendar")->Events(null, $startdate, $enddate, false, 9999, null);

Hmm to bad!

i get error:

Fatal error: Class 'sfDateTimeException' not found in /public/sites/url/event_calendar/code/sfDate.class.php on line 244

Another idea?

Maybe it's subtractYear().. I don't remember. You can look at the API.

This works to show all past & future events!

public function ShowAllEventsPlease() {
	$startdate = sfDate::getInstance()->subtractYear(1)->firstDayOfYear();
	$enddate = sfDate::getInstance()->addYear(6)->finalDayOfYear();
	return DataObject::get_one("Calendar")->Events(null, $startdate, $enddate, false, 9999, null);
}