wrought/mediawiki-extensions-yasec

Yet Another Simple Event Calendar

Yet Another Simple Event Calendar

https://github.com/improper/mediawiki-extensions-yasec

Outputs a tabular calendar filled with events automatically generated from page titles in a certain namespace. Based on the intersection extension and the FullCalendar jQuery plugin.

Demo: FoodHackingBase Events

Usage

EventCalendar expects page titles in the following format in a certain namespace:

yyyy/mm/dd Event Title

for example

Event:2014/02/14_Synchronous_Hackathon

Multi-day events can be created by setting up consecutive dates with the same title, like

Event:2014/02/14_Synchronous_Hackathon
Event:2014/02/15_Synchronous_Hackathon
Event:2014/02/16_Synchronous_Hackathon

where the second and following pages will usually redirect to the first.

Typical invocation on a page:

<EventCalendar>
namespace = Event
aspectratio = 1.35
</EventCalendar>

aspectratio is optional and defaults to 1.6. CSS max-width is set to 800px and can be overridden in MediaWiki:Common.css.

Requirements

• MediaWiki 1.22 (will probably work with other versions, comments appreciated)
• MySQL (see #1)

Installation

1. Deploy the files to extensions/yasec.
2. Edit your LocalSettings.php:

   • Load the extension:

     include("$IP/extensions/yasec/EventCalendar.php");

   • Setup your namespace:

     $wgExtraNamespaces = array(
         100 => "Event",
         101 => "Event_talk",
     );
     $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = array(
         NS_MAIN => true,
         100     => true,
     );

   • For testing you might want to disable the cache:

     # How long to cache pages using EventCalendar in seconds. Default to 1 day.
     # Set to false to use the normal amount of page caching (most efficient),
     # set to 0 to disable cache altogether (inefficient, but results will never
     # be outdated)
     $wgECMaxCacheTime = 60*60*24;   // How long to cache pages in seconds