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Working on finishing documentation, please visit http://charlesmx.com/software/mxcalendar-revo.html in the meantime, or if you have access feel free to help update

About mxCalendar

mxCalendar is a extra created for both Evolution and Revolution to allow for full calendar editing using the native Manager of ModX. The calendar supports various views including calendar, list, and detail of which all views support the ModX template standards for fully customizing your themes. In addition mxCalendar supports feature rich calendar functions such as repeating events, Google Maps, cateogries, context, and unique calendars.

Installation

ModX Revolution

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/mxcalendar2. When using the Package Management for direct download you can simply click on the "Install" button after download completes. If you choose to download from the extras site you will then need to FTP, or otherwise move, the transport package zip file to your "/core/packages/" folder first. After you have copied the transport zip file to your packages folder you will then need to launch Package Management from inside the Manager (ver 2.2.x) and then select the down arrow next to "Download Extras" and select the last option "Search Locally for Packages" and then find "mxcalendars" in the list of packages and choose "install".

ModX Evolution

You will need to download from the ModX Extras Repository, here https://modx.com/extras/package/mxcalendar. After you have downloaded you will need to follow these steps.

  1. Unzip folder to your favorite place
  2. Upload mxCalendar folder to your sites root /assets/modules/ folder
  3. Copy contents of "snippets/mxCalendar.module.txt" file from the unzipped folder
  4. Log into your Manager interface and goto the Modules > Manage Modules section
  5. Select the New Module button
  6. In the Module name field place mxcalendar
  7. Past the content of "snippets/mxCalendar.module.txt" into the Module code (php) section
  8. Select Save
  9. Click the gear icon next to the new entry "mxcalendar" and select Run Module
  10. You should see a screen saying the installation was successful, so click the Start button
  11. Now you are in the new manager

Creating Calendars

*Note: Calendars are only supported in the Revo version of mxCalendar

In the manager menu, select Components -> mxCalendar. Select the Calendars tab, click Create New Calendar. Name your calendar, check the active checkbox (if unchecked) and save.

Creating Categories

In the manager menu, select Components -> mxCalendar. Select the Categories tab, click Create New Category. Name the category and enter options, save.

Creating New Events

In the manager menu, select Components -> mxCalendar. Select the Events tab, click Create New Calendar Item.

Select a context. Leave blank for all contexts. Give the event a name, select a calendar to associate the event with, a category, and start and end date/times.

Enter your event description in the rich text editor. This populates the [[*content]] for the event detail view.

In the Location tab, name the location and enter the address. Check "Display Map" to output a Google Map for the address that you entered. The example shown is the default Google Map display in a styled modal window (tplDetail or tplDetailModal).

In the event tab, enter the event link URL.

Form Tab documentation forthcoming...

Using mxCalendar

Now to the best part, using mxCalendar to manage and display events.

Basic Use

After installation you should be able to call the default view (calendar) in your resource using:

[[!mxcalendar?]]

This should provide you with the calendar view and full page load on navigation. If you want to step things up a notch to use the AJAX navigation and modal view of event details we'd add two additional parameters to the snippet call. The first is the "ajaxResourceId" which should be a new resource (page) that is created using the (blank) template since we are returning this in the ajax response and simply modifying the DOM. The next thing we want to add is the "modalView" set to true to enable the modal display of the event details.

[[!mxcalendar?
&ajaxResourceId=`43`
&modalView=`1`
]]

Now when you reload your primary page with the mxcalendar snippet call, not the ajax one, you shoudl see the same display however now when you click on the arrows for previous and next months the content is loaded via ajax and not an entire URL page reload. The second thing you should notice is now when you click on and event title in the calendar view it displayes the event detail view in a nice modal window. ah... that's nice

Parameters / Properties / Settings

Parameters Type Default Scope Description
theme string default calendar, mini, list, detail Set the theme to use; looks for theme files in the “/assets/components/mxcalendars/theme/” folder. You can create a new one by simply copying the default or traditional folder and modify then update the parater to your folder name.
resourceId int (current resource) calendar, mini, list, detail This sets the resource ID to use when creating links that use the non-ajax parameter
isLocked boolean 0 (FALSE) calendar, mini, list, detail When set to true the display type for this snippet call will not be changed regardless of any passed parameters or query string values; used when you have multiple snippet calls on a single page
displayType string calendar default Set the default display mode when not passed in snippet call or query string
elStartDate date now list Uses PHP strtotime to set as the minimum date start listing
elEndDate date +4 weeks list Set the last date you want as the filter for returning dates in the future; uses PHP strtotime function
tplListItem String (chunk) el.itemclean list The chunk you want to use for each individual event item returned in the list
tplListHeading String (chunk) el.listheading list The chunk you want to use for month heading sperator in list view; to display the monthly heading make it empty
tplListWrap String (chunk) el.wrap list The chunk that is the outer most wrapper for the list view, often contains the global heading “Upcoming Events”
eventListlimit int 5 list Set the max number of event items to display in the events list this includes the repeating events for a given event
sort string (column name) startdate calendar, mini, list, detail Set the default sorting order, often this is not modified and helps performance when dealing with the limits
dir string (ASC, DESC) ASC calendar, mini, list, detail Set the sort direction to use
limit int 99 calendar, mini, list, detail Sets the max number of items to return from the data base query
contextFilter string (comma seperated) empty; ?all + current context calendar, mini, list, detail Sets which context to filter out events for, by defaullt it list global events where no context has been set plus the current context. In order to disable the global events from display you have to set the contextFilter value to the current context, thus over writing the default value.
calendarFilter string (comma seperated list of category id) null calendar, mini Sets a calendar filter based on the events associated calendar. By default all events are displayed regardless of the calendar they are associated to. You must set this to the value of a category id or multiple category id's separated by a comma (,).
elDirectional date future calendar, mini, list, detail Sets the direction of the list based on the elStartDate parameter. By default, all listed events are future events. To show a list of past events, set this to past (make sure to include the elStartDate=now for a past event list display.)
Text and Date Formatting
dateformat strftime %Y%m-%d calendar, mini, list, detail Uses the PHP strftime to return a pre-formatted date stamp; Extended value of %O to replace the date(S) type. English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters (st, nd, rd or th). Use this to help speed up render time.
timeformat strftime %H:%M %p calendar, mini, list, detail Uses the PHP strftime to return a pre-formatted time stamp; Extended value of %O to replace the date(S) type. English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters (st, nd, rd or th). Use this to help speed up render time.
dateseperator string / calendar, mini, list, detail Set the date seperator string to use in date stamps
Calendar view
activeMonthOnlyEvents boolean 0 (FALSE) calendar Display only events in the days of the current month
highlightToday boolean 1 (TRUE) calendar Adds the value of @todayClass to the current date
todayClass String today calendar, mini Set the CSS class name to use for the current date
noEventsClass String mxcDayNoEvents calendar,mini Set the CSS class name to apply to date containers where no events are found
hasEventsClass String mxcEvents calendar, mini Set the CSS class name to apply to date containers where events are found
tplEvent String (chunk) tplEvent calendar, mini Set the template chunk name to use for each event
tplDay String (chunk) tplDay calendar, mini Set the template chunk name to use for each day of the month, wrapper chunk for the tplEvent
tplWeek String (chunk) tplWeek calendar, mini Set the template chunk name to use for each week of the month, outer wrapper for the tplDay
tplMonth String (chunk) tplMonth calendar, mini Set the template chunk name to use for the month, outer wrapper for the tplWeek
tplHeading String (chunk) tplHeading calendar, mini Set the template chunk name to use for the calendar heading, this chunk contains the calendar navigation controls
Detail view
tplDetail String (chunk) tplDetail all Set the template chunk to display the event details
tplDetailModal String (chunk) tplDetailModal all Set the template chunk to display the event details in a modal view only
mapHeight String/Int 500px all Set the Google Map height in the event details
mapWidth String/Int 500px all Set the Google Map width in the event details
Categories list
showCategories boolean 1 (TRUE) calendar, mini Set to true to enable the listing of categories to filter events by; set to false to disable listing of categories
tplCategoryWrap String (chunk) tplCategoryWrap calendar, mini Set the chunk to wrap all the category listing output in
tplCategoryItem String (chunk) tplCategoryItem calendar, mini Set the template chunk to use for the category listing items
labelCategoryHeading String lexicon: mxcalendars.label_category_heading calendar, mini Set the category listing heading label text
Aux Parameters/Properties (global)
addJQ boolean 1 (TRUE) all Add the jQuery library source JS file as defined in the @jqLibSrc property
jqLibSrc String https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js all Set the URL to the jQuery library you would like mxCalendar to load
usemxcLib boolean 1 (TRUE) all Use the stand-a-lone modal windows JS library packaged with mxCalendar
ajaxResourceId int null all Set the document resource id that you has the base mxcalendars snippet call and blank template defined for use with the modal display
modalView boolean 0 (FALSE) all Enable or disable the modal view of events
modalSetWidth String/Int 80.00% all Set the value for the modal windows display width, supports percents (%) and fixed width (500px)
modalSetHeight String/Int 70.00% all Set the value for the modal windows display height, supports percents (%) and fixed width (500px)
Google Map
gmapLib String http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false detail Set the Google Map API URL to use for your site
gmapId String map detail Set the node id where the Google Map object should be displayed
gmapDefaultZoom Int 13 detail Set the Google Map display default zoom level
gmapAPIKey String null detail Set the Google Map API key to your registered API for additional tracking and increased request (higher limits)
Holiday (coming soon)
holidays Struct null all coming soon
holidayDisplayEvents Boolean 1 (TRUE) all coming soon
Debugging
use with caution, so not listed and not recommended to use
debugTimezone boolean 0 (FALSE) all Set to true to see how your dates are being processed for your server settings
debug boolean 0 (FALSE) all Set to true to enable all kids of fun output of the calendar processing, helps to trouble shoot any issues with the calendar