yes, that's what I mean.. though I will probably make it differently, which I have 2 main ideas:
1.
%vars_calendar_events = (
calendar events
);

%vars_calendar_birthdays = (
calendar birthdays
);

then calendar_birthdays is the one to be maintenanced...

or instead
2. I'll choose that when somebody edits profile or registers, it will automatically add it to a file in members dir, such as "birthdays.cgi"... and when you run ubb_lib_calendar, it will check this file... that'd probably make it simpler to be up-to-date.

Well, I think there still needs to be something that completely cleans and rebuilds the birthdays (not the events).

This would cover all bases so we wouldn't have birthdays showing for deleted or banned members - that is unless you are going to add a "Remove Birthday" routine when banning or deleting.

If you can't make sure that there won't be an orphaned birthday out there with no way of knowing, then you need something that can clean and rebuild based on the "Allow others to see my birth date?" check in their profile.

The lack of tools for the calendar has been especially frustrating. You need to start offering some useful ones.

There will be something that completely cleans and rebuilds the birthdays. in my post above I said how it's gonna recognize what's birthdays and what's regular events (because you said in your post "All you would need would be a single character flag added to the calendar event that tells whether the event came from a user’s profile or was custom added"...

Excellent! Can't wait.

any ETA on when this newest version of calendar will be released ?

When you see a public beta for 6.6, you can expect an update soon after for the calendar

HTML:
birthday.gif

Instructions to hack: no need to upload:
calendar.txt

Templates:
cp_vars_calendar.pl
public_calendar_display.pl
public_calendar_review.pl
public_new_calendar_event.pl

CGI-BIN: Permissions @ 755
ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi
ubb_lib_calendar.cgi

CGI-BIN: Permissions @777
vars_calendar.cgi
vars_calendar_events.cgi
vars_wordlets_calendar.cgi

In CGI-BIN only if your upgrading from the prior version, Permissions @ 755:
upgrade.cgi

Hope this helps... Good rule of thumb is the .cgi files always go in cgi-bin and the .pl always go in the Templates. Most of the mistakes I make are with the permissions.

Sorry LK, I see now you already answered it

LK, will there be a ton of new features? cause I just moved the hack to css, and I love it, but I don't wanna lose all my work to upgrade. will the main thing be the rebuild feature?

PS. you should check out the calendar on my boards, I added some cool css tricks to make the current day emboss

not tons of new features. just the ones I mentioned in the previous page, in todo list.

btw, I love what you did in the calendar (the effect of the current day)... you think I should add something like that to the next version? (so instead of "Today Background Color" it would be "Today CSS Text", with a textarea)

personally, I think everything on the net should be css, it's so easy to use and allows for a lot more flexibility. maybe you should give people a choice, cause a lot more people know hexcodes than know css. ie instead of multihack and text, css and the bad one

catcherman, would it be alright if I allow smilies and not images? (I guess you'll have to add a smiley for full moon and a smiley for new moon when you update the calendar, it's not that difficult)

EDIT: I got the ubbcode buttons to work, but the smilies wouldn't show, so I used the popup feature it had.

Thanks for your help

Done for 2.1:

• put version number at top of lib_calendar..
• put add new event at the line of "Events for".
• ability to add smilies to title
• totally redesigned Review page (now it looks like New Event page)
• now there is only one template - public_calendar.pl, and calendar uses only one ?ubb= shortcut (calendar).

www.lkworld.com/?ubb=calendar

LK, that sounds great. Thanks for your hard work.

sounding good LK

Hey LK, I'm trying to set it up so that I can access the calendar through SSI (well PHP includes but give or take it's the same thing) but when I try to go to http://tavern.undergroundnews.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi&css=yes I recieve "You're trying to access a page that does not exist"... Any idea's? BTW, I used the mhk ...

hmm, it's:
http://tavern.undergroundnews.com/cgi-bin/ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi?css=yes
but for some reason I get "blah?"

ahhh, the instructions i saw stated that it was ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi.cgi?css=yes :X... Sorry...

yeah, you're right, I forgot to update ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi... it should be: