Event calendar, returning events and dublicate entries

[thomasklaiber]

Hello,

I'm new to processwire and currently working on my first (real) site.

Now I'm searching for a good soluton for an event calendar (just a date-based event list).

For now I've created everything (pages, templates, fields) well and it works theoretically.

BUT

In this case every Event is called "Training" but with different content and different dates.

Now Processwire prevents dublicate entries in the backend with an error - what is okay because not every event can have the path "/events/training/".

My first solution would be addingt the date to the name like /events/training-2013-06-23/ .. BUT I would always have to change this manually, when the date of an event is changed AND this wouldn't be automatic.

So I need a really simple solution for this problem .. is it possible to add the date to the name automatically when the page is saved? Something like this would be great.

[adrian]

Hi Thomas and welcome to PW!

You should be able to do this with a very basic custom module. I think this code from Pete should be a good start for you:

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/1648-ok-to-change-page-name-path-after-save/?p=15232

[Pete]

Thanks adrian - I forgot I'd even written that, but I need to do something very similar tomorrow so I'm glad you linked to it

[thomasklaiber]

Looks exactly like what I was searching for - I'll try it

Thanks a lot!

[thomasklaiber]

Well I got another problem over here. The example code works perfectly like I wanted it.

$page->name = $this->sanitizer->pageName($page->title, true)."-".date("d-m-Y", $page->getUnformatted(date));

But the sanitizer doesnt work as exspected. It doesnt convert special characters (like ä ö ü) right in this case. For normal pages it works correctly (I added them to the character replacement list) ... do I have to change something if I use the function in a module?

[thomasklaiber]

Found the solution myself, I can't just set the second parameter of pageName to true, I have to set it "Sanitizer::translate".

Correct code that works:

 $page->name = $this->sanitizer->pageName($page->title, Sanitizer::translate)."-".date("d-m-Y", $page->getUnformatted(date));