Church Events Calendar

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What is Church Events Calendar?¶

ChurchEvents is a calendar extra for MODX Revolution was initially designed specifically for churches but would be useful in many other contexts. Churchevents now supports templates and translations. There are now 3 Snippets included: ChurchEventsCalendar, ChurchEventsList and ChurchEventsRss.

Required extra Packages¶

You must install the following packages before you can install ChurchEvents.

FormIt
ColorPicker

History¶

ChurchEvents was written by Josh Gulledge to be a complete calendar for MODX, first release was in early 2011. In November 2011, ChurchEvents was rewretten to meet MODX coding standards.

Demo¶

See a live demo.

Download¶

It can be downloaded from within the MODX Revolution manager via Package Management, or from the MODX Extras Repository, here: https://modx.com/extras/package/churchevents

Development and Bug Reporting¶

ChurchEvents is on GitHub: https://github.com/jgulledge19/Church-Events-Calendar, report any issues or feature requests here: https://github.com/jgulledge19/Church-Events-Calendar/issues.

Install¶

Install via the package manager

How to use¶

To make a calendar on you page:

[[!ChurchEventsCalendar?]]

Make a list of all prominent events with a limit of 10 on you page:

[[!ChurchEventsList?  &prominent=`Yes`  &limit=`10`]]

System Settings ¶

These need to be created if they do not exist.

Name	Key	Field Type	Namespace	Area Lexicon	Default Value	Description
Allow Requests	churchevents.allowRequests	Yes/No	churchevents	ChurchEvents	Yes	Allow guests to request events.
Date Format	churchevents.dateFormat	Textfield	churchevents	ChurchEvents	%m/%d/%Y	This is the format that will appear on forms and when a date is presented. Default is %m/%d/%Y see php.net/strftime for all options.
Extended Fields	churchevents.extended	Textarea	churchevents	ChurchEvents		A comma separated list of fields you want on the event form. Example: extend_numberOfPeople,extend_needCatering.
Page/Resource ID	churchevents.pageID	Textfield	churchevents	ChurchEvents		This is the Page/Resource ID where the calendar will be located. This is what all generated URLs are based on.
Use Locations	churchevents.useLocations	Yes/No	churchevents	ChurchEvents	Yes	Use the location manager. If yes events will choose from a list of locations and events can check for conflicts. If no then each event can have a typed in a location and no event is checked for conflict.
RSS Page/Resource ID	churchevents.rssPageID	Textfield	churchevents	ChurchEvents		This is the Page/Resource ID that will have the RSSEvents snippet and all generated RSS URLs will go here.