[Radiant] Modestly Extending Radiant and Forms

[Noah M. Daniels]

While I don't have any time to help right now, I'm very interested in  
an event calendar for my own eventual use of Radiant (my car club's  
track days and such).

Having a 'calendar view' that can be called from this event calendar,  
which has children that are the individual events, would be ideal.

Please keep the list posted on this!

On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Loren Johnson wrote:

>
> For a couple of weeks I've been hunting for the absolute best way  
> to extend Radiant to handle the presentation of an event calendar.
>
> After much going back and forth I finally settled on implementing  
> it as a series of new global tags in a plugin a la: http:// 
> radiantcms.org/blog/2006/09/14/how-to-create-global-tags-in-a- 
> plugin.  I've copied my needed Event models into this plugin as  
> well. This has gotten me pretty far. I've got my <r:calendar... and  
> child <r:event... tag which allow me to pull any set of events and  
> present them in anyway I need anywhere throughout the site. Great!   
> However I have hit a couple of road blocks:
>
> 1. I've created attributes to select a set of event based on a date  
> range, a number of days, etc. This will allow me to create separate  
> pages for different date time periods. However, I'd much prefer to  
> have a form which allow users to select the date range or  
> categories of events to display.
>
> Is there a way to access form get parameters from within the  
> Behavior::Base.define_tags? Has anyone came-up with an elegant way  
> to handle this sort of thing?
>
> 2. Currently I'm handling migrations on my own models by just  
> generating them directly in the Radiant app. I figure I'll have to  
> do some migration re-numbering when a new Radiant release includes  
> it's own migrations. Anybody have a better solution for handling  
> migrations of custom models from within a plugin or without  
> interfering with the Radiant installation?
>
>
> *** I'm implementing this Calendar into Radiant in this hodge-podge  
> manner now with the educated assumption that I'll eventually be  
> able to re-factor it and have it directly "plug-in" to Radiant (on  
> the admin tab) and that the incorporation of a custom data model  
> will be accomodated in some manner. Notice I didn't ask for a  
> custom view or controler (yet). Am I assuming too much?
>
> Thoughts and solutions embraced,
>
> Loren Johnson
> loren at fn-group.com
>
>
>
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