I’m excited to announce that Train-ee is now offering the first “open to the public” traditional classroom training for ExpressionEngine.

With the ExpressionEngine calendar functionality explained, let’s dive into the code.  In this chapter I’ll cover the implementation of the Event Calendar index template.  From a coding perspective I’ll show how to do the basic implementation, and then use an embedded template with embedded variable to get around the “no custom field” limitation of the weblog:calendar tag.  This chapter will also lay some groundwork for using EE’s relationships to tie events to ministries.

Most active churches will have, at any given time, a number of special events going on that need to be communicated to members and potential visitors alike.  From a facilities perspective often there are large meeting spaces that need to have an availability calendar so members planning an event know when a particular space is available.  ExpressionEngine has some built-in calendaring capabilities that can, at times, meet these requirements.  In this chapter I’ll provide an overview of the EE calendaring capabilities, talk about it’s strengths and weaknesses, and cover some options to the EE calendar.

5Pieces.com has an extensive tutorial on how to use Monoslideshow with the ExpressionEngine photo gallery module but I’ve had a few cases where using it with a custom weblog/custom fieldset was simpler for clients.

Make the site launch process easier by using either the site_url or homepage variables in configuring Control Panel paths.