Please work on a 6.0 stable version

^^ my thoughts exactly!

I've been waiting a long time for a stable 6x!

Have a look at the issues list for 6.x and report any problems you are having that are not already open and that you can confirm are not caused by your own code. Getting that list knocked down should go a ways towards considering 6 to be stable.

If you aren't having any problems, it's stable enough =)

I had a lot of problems. Specifically Event clashing with the Date module in timezones. Plus weird issues like the event time resetting to 00:00. I went through the issue queues but they were so involved with patches and counter patches that I just gave up.

I can't give up date because I use it a lot in CCK. Date is used by cool modules like timeline (which I am using).

Would it be possible to provide a version which does not have these largish problems :-) ?

Thinks will go much better with the stable version if you could review some patches...

I'd like to help. But would it be possibly to merge some the "absolutely sure" fixes soon? Its been quite sometime since the last dev version came out. There are just too many patches floating around. If you can't issue a new dev version can you just write a nice summary and possible patches to apply?

D6 is really gathering momentum. Views 2 is just a *pleasure* to use. There are so many modules that are simply amazing in D6. D5 just feels clunky to me now. I think its time Event took the rightful place in D6 that it owns in D5 :-)

There is no released version 6.x-1.0 yet. I do not understand why, can sb explain? I thought that once such a released version appeared, also many translation .po files would be following quite soon. Or...?

I'm getting the impression that increasing numbers of people are moving to Date + Calendar instead of Event. Would it be accurate to say that:

- Date + Calendar do the same job as Event
- they are available as full releases for Drupal 6 whereas Event is not even in alpha
- therefore Event is of interest mainly to those wishing to maintain and migrate existing sites

My intention is not to stir or to denigrate the maintainers' efforts (Drupal is a community and we all have a part to play), just to clarify the state of play so that e.g. a Drupal newbie wondering which module to use has some information to go on.

If Date + Calendar can indeed do everything that Event does (can they? - info welcome) then would it make sense for the community to plump for Date + Calendar and focus on migrating from Event, in a similar way to Flexinode giving way to CCK?

Respectfully,

Dave

Unfortunately finding an alternative to Event is sort of moot for me since I'm trying to use Signup and Signup Status...

Even if I did switch to Date and Calendar, it seems that these other modules still seem to be taking their time.

I find davej's comment interesting, can anyone else confirm that this is the path forward? (Or is it April Fools' day? :D)

this is interesting...

i'm not sure Date + Calendar actually fulfill our needs or at least work to produce a complete solution...

i just started working with Drupal 6.x so i am wondering if i should go back to 5...

what is everyone else doing for a solution?

http://VanGeorge.com

Since event views doesn't seem to be going anywhere, I actually looked into using date + calendar at one point. I'm sorry to say that no, they don't replace event, especially when it comes to the user interface and code.

There is a discussion on Date+Calendar and Events comparison at http://groups.drupal.org/node/3598 since year 2007. Having both Date+Calendar and Events confuses many people on which one to use. og_calendar was one reason for using events, but now it is possible to create it with Date+calendar like in http://groups.drupal.org/node/3598 and http://agaric.com/note/drupal-calendar-implemenation-organic-groups-date... . It looks like many functionalities of Date+Calendar and Events are currently overlapping. If Events is not improving and not becoming stable, maybe we should add the specific features, which shadysamir mentioned, to Date+Calendar and switch to there.

On my site the Views and Event modules are all working without problems.
http://openwaterswimming.eu/node/271 gives a view of all the upcoming events where one can select by taxonomy term and/or by date.

Please declare the version stabel and move on.

Drupal 6.11 bluemarine theme
Event 6.x-2.x-dev
Views 6.x-2.5
and a lot more modules

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The most important features, IMO, that need to be ported into date are:
1. The event user interafce ajax checkboxes of (have time) and (have end date).
2. The event module object available for coding. Take a look at var_dump of an event object in an event node, especially the has_time and has_end_date values which have been extremely helpful in theming.

Event Object (event module)

["event"]=>
  array(19) {
    ["start"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
    ["end"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
    ["start_exploded"]=>
    array(6) {
      ["year"]=>
      int(2009)
      ["month"]=>
      string(2) "05"
      ["day"]=>
      string(2) "04"
      ["hour"]=>
      string(2) "19"
      ["minute"]=>
      string(2) "00"
      ["second"]=>
      string(2) "00"
    }
    ["end_exploded"]=>
    array(6) {
      ["year"]=>
      int(2009)
      ["month"]=>
      string(2) "05"
      ["day"]=>
      string(2) "04"
      ["hour"]=>
      string(2) "19"
      ["minute"]=>
      string(2) "00"
      ["second"]=>
      string(2) "00"
    }
    ["start_orig"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
    ["end_orig"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
    ["timezone"]=>
    string(1) "8"
    ["offset"]=>
    string(8) "02:00:00"
    ["offset_dst"]=>
    string(8) "03:00:00"
    ["dst_region"]=>
    string(1) "1"
    ["has_time"]=>
    string(1) "1"
    ["has_end_date"]=>
    string(1) "0"
    ["start_utc"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 16:00:00"
    ["start_user"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 16:00:00"
    ["start_site"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
    ["end_utc"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 16:00:00"
    ["end_user"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 16:00:00"
    ["end_site"]=>
    string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
    ["node_type"]=>
    string(5) "event"
  }

For those wanting Views 2 integration with Event, I've submitted some code at http://drupal.org/node/484364.

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ANy way to KEEP the site from oflining itself by UNPUBLISHING the FIRST page?

I LOVE drupal, but with this bug, its not useable.
Joomla wont load anything but the first page correctly.

I need a WORKING CMS system, not a WIP.

ANYONE?? Im all ears.

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I am using date, calendar and event modules on my d5 site... problem is i need to make a deadline to move it to d6 and make a lot of changes on the d6 site... i get errors when upgrading to d6 due to the module only having a dev version and get the same 00:00 time reset as "sidharth_k" can anyone help with a solution?

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FYI : the reason the Date module exist is to deal with different timezones, daylight saving time and complex MySql timestamps. In my case, my local media has no international relations or any time complication, so the Event module is perfect.

About Event updates to D6 from prior versions : I personally went from from Event for D4.7 to Event for D6.2.dev using a custom MySql script to transfer the data from the old table to the new table. It was much easier than I thought. The only complexity was making adjustments so that the former date/time is outputted to something sensical (i.e. MySql timestamps have a hidden timezone set, so you need to correct with +/- to make sure the date/time transferred is correct).

Views integration (Event 6.x-2.x-dev with Views 2) : I am quite happy to add my "+1 It worked" for the solution mentioned here by defconjuan and others [ http://drupal.org/node/293894#comment-1434610 ].

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Can anyone elaborate on exactly what things need to be done in order to upgrade from D5 event to D6 and get a stable D6 release? Depending on what's involved I may have time to work on this. My client has a D5 site which I need to upgrade to D6 pretty soon. It's not a complicated site, but there are a fair number of event nodes and I need a D5 to D6 upgrade path soon, even if I have to implement it myself. However I don't want to go into this blindly, so if anyone can outline the outstanding issues for me that would be great.

Cheers,
Stella

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I use event on a production site running Drupal 6 and it works fine. I've had to hack a couple items to get them to work the way I want but I haven't heard that D6 is any less useful than D5. That being said, I think there's some discussion in some of the bugs about items that need to be addressed to get a D6 stable release ready.

Wouldn't the need be to post a rundown of known bugs that affect a stable upgrade path?

Hello all,

Just catching up on the thread. Having not read all of the ideas discussed above, I thought asking would be the best option for me. In short, is the D6 version (dev) is good enough to be used now or should we try calendar and date modules instead?
Thanks for letting me know
T

I also have the 2.x-dev version in a production site and it works perfectly, even when I had to play some tricks for the upgrade from D5. I also had some problems with the Event Views module, for which I had to copy some files in the includes as per http://drupal.org/node/293894 - and also had to use the 2.x-dev for this one. Funny, as event_views-6.x-2.4 is two years newer than event_views-6.x-2.x-dev, but I've only managed to get running the dev.

Anyway, I'm going to at least try to fix the issue, as I need to develop a module for managing signups to events, e-mail reminders and a couple more things, and I'd like to build upon a solid foundation. Yes, I know CivicRM already does this, but I think for my needs it will be a lot simpler to develop a simple module than installing and configuring CivicRM.

I should have read before writing... The dev version of event module is (at least for me) perfectly usable. The "Event views" module is deprecated (or not?), but I got it working by copying the handler files into the includes directory. And the Signup module does everything I wanted and more, so there's no need to develop anything.
Anyway, I'll try to make a clear picture of all this event/event views mess...
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Hi,
I'm about to install this module - but I'm seeing it is possible to have similar functionality installing other modules.

My desired functionality is a place where users can upload events with information of the event, place and date; plus a section on the front page to see the upcoming events.

I read on this article there are people who have tried and could make it work.
But the module seems to lack proper support.

The fact there is no stable d6, plus no way to know which exact issues are causing this not to be stable, makes me think this module
could be left alone. If this module is likely to be replaced by others that are more supported, should I better try those other modules such as date+calendar ?

Is this module only up for upgrading but discouraged for new installs?
Why the deprecations as albertczyk mentions?

This module seems to not to be supported enough. I would like to know how true is this, and why there is no stable release. And if it is required from the user certain programming knowledge to make it work - and what about if possible - from a d6 fresh install.

Thanks

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part 1/
Working at http://noww.nl
Drupal 6.17 bluemarine theme
Cck 6.x-2.6
Event 6.x-2.x-dev
Views 6.x-2.10
and a lot more modules

MySQL database voor Event module 5.0.90
MySQL-database 5.0.90
PHP 5.2.13

Upcoming events is available as block.

Added at the bottom of event.module:

/**
* Implementation of hook_views_api().
*/
function event_views_api() {
  return array(
    'api' => 2,
  );
}

Created a view http://noww.nl/eventslijst with the following code:

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'eventslist';
$view->description = 'eventslist';
$view->tag = 'eventslist';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'type' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'link_to_node' => 1,
    'exclude' => 1,
    'id' => 'type',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'type',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'title' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'link_to_node' => 1,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'event_start' => array(
    'label' => 'Start',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'event_start',
    'table' => 'event',
    'field' => 'event_start',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
  'event_start' => array(
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'granularity' => 'second',
    'id' => 'event_start',
    'table' => 'event',
    'field' => 'event_start',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
  'type' => array(
    'default_action' => 'ignore',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'node',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'id' => 'type',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'type',
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'event' => 'event',
      'webform' => 0,
      'image' => 0,
      'page' => 0,
      'story' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '3' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
      '2' => 0,
      '1' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'user_argument_type' => '',
    'restrict_user_roles' => 0,
    'user_roles' => array(),
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
  'title' => array(
    'default_action' => 'ignore',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'glossary' => 0,
    'limit' => '0',
    'case' => 'none',
    'path_case' => 'none',
    'transform_dash' => 0,
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'webform' => 0,
      'image' => 0,
      'event' => 0,
      'page' => 0,
      'story' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '3' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
      '2' => 0,
      '1' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'user_argument_type' => '',
    'restrict_user_roles' => 0,
    'user_roles' => array(),
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
  'type' => array(
    'operator' => 'in',
    'value' => array(
      'event' => 'event',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'type',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'type',
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
  ),
  'tid' => array(
    'operator' => 'or',
    'value' => array(
      '328' => '328',
      '457' => '457',
      '456' => '456',
      '458' => '458',
      '454' => '454',
      '455' => '455',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => TRUE,
    'expose' => array(
      'use_operator' => 0,
      'operator' => 'tid_op',
      'identifier' => 'tid',
      'label' => 'Wedstrijd soort',
      'optional' => 1,
      'single' => 0,
      'remember' => 0,
      'reduce' => 1,
    ),
    'type' => 'select',
    'limit' => TRUE,
    'vid' => '2',
    'id' => 'tid',
    'table' => 'term_node',
    'field' => 'tid',
    'hierarchy' => 0,
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'reduce_duplicates' => 0,
  ),
  'event_start_1' => array(
    'operator' => '>=',
    'value' => array(
      'type' => 'offset',
      'value' => '-1 min',
      'min' => '',
      'max' => '',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'event_start_1',
    'table' => 'event',
    'field' => 'event_start',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'event_start' => array(
    'operator' => 'between',
    'value' => array(
      'type' => 'date',
      'value' => '',
      'min' => '',
      'max' => '',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => TRUE,
    'expose' => array(
      'use_operator' => 0,
      'operator' => 'event_start_op',
      'identifier' => 'event_start',
      'label' => 'Events: Start',
      'optional' => 1,
      'remember' => 0,
    ),
    'id' => 'event_start',
    'table' => 'event',
    'field' => 'event_start',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('header', '<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">De keuze kan aangepast worden door te kiezen voor verschillende termen.<br>Bijvoorbeeld: <b>Wedstrijd (event) NL-KNZB</b> en dan ziet u alleen de Nederlandse KNZB wedstrijden.<br>Verder kan er ook geselecteerd worden op datum. <br>Bijv. als u Event:Start <b>2010-07-25</b> en Einde: <b>2010-07-26</b> BEIDEN ook nog invoert dan komt de mooie wedstrijd van Geestmerambacht alleen in de lijst te staan.</p>');
$handler->override_option('header_format', '3');
$handler->override_option('header_empty', 0);
$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 100);
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'list');
$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
  'grouping' => '',
  'type' => 'ol',
));
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Pagina', 'page_1');
$handler->override_option('path', 'eventslijst');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
  'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
  'name' => 'navigation',
));

Part 2/
At an other site http://openwaterswimming.eu I have chosen the date module
Drupal 6.16 bluemarine theme
Cck 6.x-2.6
Date 6.x-2.4
Calendar 6.x.22
Views 6.x-2.10

MySQL database 4.1.21
PHP 5.2.4

Created a content type date:

$content['type']  = array (
  'name' => 'Date',
  'type' => 'date',
  'description' => '<p>
	A date content type that is linked to a Views calendar.</p>
',
  'title_label' => 'Title',
  'body_label' => 'Body',
  'min_word_count' => '0',
  'help' => '',
  'node_options' => 
  array (
    'status' => true,
    'promote' => false,
    'sticky' => false,
    'revision' => false,
  ),
  'language_content_type' => '0',
  'upload' => '1',
  'old_type' => 'date',
  'orig_type' => 'date',
  'module' => 'node',
  'custom' => '1',
  'modified' => '1',
  'locked' => '0',
  'image_attach' => '0',
  'image_attach_maximum' => '0',
  'image_attach_size_teaser' => 'thumbnail',
  'image_attach_size_body' => 'thumbnail',
  'comment' => '0',
  'comment_default_mode' => '4',
  'comment_default_order' => '1',
  'comment_default_per_page' => '50',
  'comment_controls' => '3',
  'comment_anonymous' => 0,
  'comment_subject_field' => '1',
  'comment_preview' => '1',
  'comment_form_location' => '0',
  'print_display' => 1,
  'print_display_comment' => 0,
  'print_display_urllist' => 1,
);
$content['fields']  = array (
  0 => 
  array (
    'label' => 'Date',
    'field_name' => 'field_date',
    'type' => 'datetime',
    'widget_type' => 'date_select',
    'change' => 'Change basic information',
    'weight' => '-4',
    'default_value' => 'now',
    'default_value2' => 'blank',
    'default_value_code' => '',
    'default_value_code2' => '',
    'input_format' => 'Y-m-d H:i:s',
    'input_format_custom' => 'd.m.Y - H:i:s',
    'year_range' => '-2:+2',
    'increment' => '15',
    'advanced' => 
    array (
      'label_position' => 'above',
      'text_parts' => 
      array (
        'year' => 0,
        'month' => 0,
        'day' => 0,
        'hour' => 0,
        'minute' => 0,
        'second' => 0,
      ),
    ),
    'label_position' => 'above',
    'text_parts' => 
    array (
    ),
    'description' => '',
    'group' => false,
    'required' => 0,
    'multiple' => '0',
    'repeat' => 0,
    'todate' => 'optional',
    'granularity' => 
    array (
      'year' => 'year',
      'month' => 'month',
      'day' => 'day',
      'hour' => 'hour',
      'minute' => 'minute',
    ),
    'default_format' => 'long',
    'tz_handling' => 'site',
    'timezone_db' => 'UTC',
    'op' => 'Save field settings',
    'module' => 'date',
    'widget_module' => 'date',
    'columns' => 
    array (
      'value' => 
      array (
        'type' => 'datetime',
        'not null' => false,
        'sortable' => true,
        'views' => true,
      ),
      'value2' => 
      array (
        'type' => 'datetime',
        'not null' => false,
        'sortable' => true,
        'views' => false,
      ),
    ),
    'display_settings' => 
    array (
      'weight' => '-4',
      'parent' => '',
      'label' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'inline',
      ),
      'teaser' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'default',
        'exclude' => 0,
      ),
      'full' => 
      array (
        'format' => 'default',
        'exclude' => 0,
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        'exclude' => 0,
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      2 => 
      array (
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        'exclude' => 0,
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      3 => 
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$content['extra']  = array (
  'title' => '-5',
  'body_field' => '-2',
  'revision_information' => '0',
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Created a view type date:
see attachment part 3/

part 3/
date content view

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sorry tried to remove it from the "my issues" list.

I personally do not think the maintainers of the modules are interested in fixing it.

Personally I've switched to the date module for the calender.
Only problem was that there is no easy/good way to migrate the data from event module to date module so now I have to re-enter over 1000 events by hand. But I'm willing to pay the dues for the better (and better maintained) date module

Event for Drupal 8 is unrelated to older versions. If an issue similar to this one exists, please open a new issue with the 8.x branch.