Add an 'add an event' link to the Upcoming Events Block

You could probably do this by creating a theme-specific function replacement in your theme's template.php. The HTML for upcoming events is generated by a number of functions in /modules/event/event.theme -- specifically, theme_event_upcoming_item, theme_event_upcoming_block, theme_event_ical_link, and theme_event_more_link. These are all called and their output combined together in the function event_block_upcoming in /modules/event/event.module.

Since the "more" link is shown last, you could create your own event_more_link function that would be used instead of theme_event_more_link.

Assuming your theme name is mytheme, edit /themes/mytheme/template.php and create a function:

function mytheme_event_more_link($path) {
}

Then call the existing function to generate the more link, and add the code for the "Add an Event" after that. Like so:

function mytheme_event_more_link($path) {
  $output = theme_event_more_link($path);
  $output .= '<div class="myaddeventlink"><a href="/node/add/event">Add an Event</a></div>';
  return $output;
}

Now when Drupal wants to generate the Upcoming events block it will run your mytheme_event_more_link function, create the more link using theme_event_more_link function, then tack on a div and link after that which lets a user add an event. Of course, you'd have to make the div, and you might have to check to see if the user is allowed to add an event as well.

@zaboomafoozarg - I think you missed his point. This is not really something that should be forced into a theme.

This is something that I've been seeing a lot lately: People can't figure out to use "create content" to do these things. The module developer or webmaster has to add an "add xxx" link to her/his already existing pages.

However, @icon123, the problem with doing this is that there can be many content types that are event-enabled, so which type do you want to add? I'm afraid this one is going to require user training...

As I trie to explain, on my site, and many others, I have Community Events, Events, and Holidays that are all event-enabled. Adding a link to that block as you dsecribe would only allow me to create an "Event" and not the other two. That's the problem. I understand your requirement and was working on a patch for you when I realized this problem.

I'm attaching a patch for you, but it's not useful to those of us who have multiple event types. It applies to the event.theme file.

Thank you NancyDru - you've enlightened me by posting that patch...