Report Snippet: More on Events
The code to handle events is looking pretty good now. I’ve got it fitting events into the calendar properly, just the way it used to do with the database-backed version, only now it’s reading the events from XML files and allowing for many more options. Looking at my recent wishlist entry-cum-specification, I can report that events can now be specified with date exceptions, the summary and description now allow HTML, the times and prices can be specified in detail, and the embedded Google Maps work perfectly. The only thing left is the booking details, which will also require a carefully-crafted “Politarchopolan Bookings Policy”, which I’ll write based on the Lionheart Company policy and run past the Seneschal for approval before it goes live.
So: although the site seems not to have changed much in the last two weeks, I have very definitely been putting in my hour a week and then some (more like a dozen hours this week and about the same last week) and it’s all about to bear fruit.
Now… where’s that deputy with her content updates? I shall have to get her working on putting all the existing events in this new format…