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• DonGawgon
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 05, 2010 - 01:08 PM

  Hi,
  
  PostCalendar 6.2's release notes say:

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  Added ability to filter by category via URL (from GET) (thanks espaan)

  Does this mean I can pass a URL to the browser that, for example, filters the events shown by a particular category? I used to do this in the 4.* versions by hovering over the link of an event in a filtered list and noting the pc_category value. I don't see this feature explained in 6.2's documentation.
  
  Help?

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• craigh
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 05, 2010 - 02:07 PM

  yes, that is the intent.
  
  take a look at the original ticket for more information.
  
  http://code.zikula.org/soundwebdevelopment/ticket/152

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• DonGawgon
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 05, 2010 - 05:16 PM

  This helps but I haven't been able to get the URL correct. I either get an empty list or an unfiltered list. My site's PostCalendar is here: http://www.gfccnet.org/index.php?module=postcalendar. I've tried:
  
  http://www.gfccnet.org/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&postcalendar_events[__CATEGORIES__][Ministries]=10106
  
  and
  
  http://www.gfccnet.org/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&cat=10106
  
  Both yield unfiltered lists. What am I doing wrong?
  
  -Thanks

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• DonGawgon
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 05, 2010 - 06:16 PM

  I got the following to work by sniffing it out with FireFox's Live HTTP Headers plugin:
  
  

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  http://www.gfccnet.org/index.php?module=postcalendar&func=view&postcalendar_events[__CATEGORIES__][OLDMain]=0&postcalendar_events[__CATEGORIES__][Main]=10106&submit=Filter&pc_username=-1&jumpMonth=12&jumpDay=06&jumpYear=2010&viewtype=list

  
  
  This can probably be shortened but it's a start.
  
  -Thanks
  
  
  
  Edited by DonGawgon on Dec 06, 2010 - 07:48 AM.

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• craigh
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 06, 2010 - 03:03 AM

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  This can probably be shortened but it's a start.

  
  yes, that does look wrong to me. I'm hoping Erik Spaan chimes in here, because I've never used this functionality.

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 06, 2010 - 09:58 PM

  Hi DonGawgon
  
  you are talking about 2 different things. I added the ticket to PC for calling postcalendar from the Content module. Within Content you can call a module directly via its API and then you need the module to use the function call arguments. With a URL you can already select a category directly like what you did above.
  
  So using the category property from the registry and the category ID:
  

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  index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&postcalendar_events[__CATEGORIES__][RegistryPropertyName]=10009

  
  
  You can also use:
  

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  index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&prop=RegistryPropertyName&cat=10009

  
  this is the same way it is being used in News for a single category selection, somewhat cleaner then the __categories__ call and less prone to string issues in getting the parameters from the URL. But this is only for 1 category under a certain property.
  
  BTW, see also this ticket: http://code.zikula.org/soundwebdevelopment/ticket/173 where I added code for the Date and viewtype as well. I needed to filter via the Content module on the year as well, so that is why I needed the Date as API function argument as well.
  
  --
  campertoday.nl, Module development, Dutch Zikula Community

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