Comments on: Cleaning up the Upcoming Events block in Drupal

By: Joe (spammy nickname removed) Peters

Joe (spammy nickname removed) Peters — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:03:48 +0000

I actually prefer it in the “15 days” way – looks less computerized

By: Rolf van de Krol

Rolf van de Krol — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:04:21 +0000

Hmm, not very usefull, it strips all HTML, but I hope you get the point.

By: Rolf van de Krol

Rolf van de Krol — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:02:08 +0000

Although it works, it would be better to do this in your theme, instead of in the module code. Remember: Override, don’t change.
Using PHPTemplate an possible function would be:
title, “node/$node->nid”, array(‘title’ => $node->title));
if ((count(event_get_types(‘all’)) + count(event_get_types(’solo’))) > 1) {
$output .= ”. t(“($node->typename)”) .”;
}
if($node->timeleft != t(‘Now’)) {
$output .= ‘(starts in ‘. $node->timeleft .’)';
} else {
$output .= ‘(‘. $node->timeleft .’)';
}
return $output;
}
?>
Hope that helps.

Rolf van de Krol

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:04:28 +0000

even better – is to have it use the exact date – check out this post – works beautifully… instead of (15 days) it outputs (11/11/07 – 10:00) – makes much more sense

http://drupal.org/node/161527