Event Images/Thumbnails in Calendar View

Hi!

We just purchased Event Booking and it looks like a very solidly written extension but I have one question...

Our events are usually advertized with an image of a poster which contains all event information. This has worked for many years and is something we want to keep. Essentially, the description of each even consisted of one large poster image of the event and a few short lines with aditional details. This was easy enough to accomplish with Event Booking so no problem here.

The issue comes when we want to display a smaller version of the poster image (a thumbnail) in the calendar on the day of the event. Previously we used JCal Pro where we could do that but I cannot quite see an option where we could accomplish that in Event Booking.

Is there something I am overlooking, is this possibly something you are expecting to add as a feature or is this something that I will have to code myself? Any chance there is a useful plugin hook that I could use (if Event Booking is pluggable?)

Thanks!

Hi

Right now, Event Booking doesn't support thumbnail, so you will need to code myself (I might implement this feature in version 1.4.1, otherwise in version 1.4.2) . For now, the solution is :

- You upload the thumnails to a folder . The name of thumnails need to follow naming convension, something like event_{EVENT_ID}.jpg, for example event_1.jpg, event_2.jpg .

- You modify calendar view of event booking to show this thumnail (components/com_eventbooking/views/calendar/tmpl/default.php ). Just few line of code, I believe .

Hope this help

Regards,

Tuan

Hi, Tuan!

Thank you very much for the prompt response!

Sure, that is a solution but the problem with me implementing thumbnails this way is that I will have to manually generate the thumbnail for each event. We run 4-5 events per week so this will get a bit tedious. I will also have to reapply this hack every time I upgrade the Event Booking extension. I might have to write a plugin to overwrite the HTML of the calendar instead, I think.

In the meantime if you are considering implementing thumbnails in the calendar, could you consider implementing thumbnails in the events module as well?

Thanks again!

I second the images in calendar view. My client strictly promotes their events via images in the calendar. Please implement this feature!! This is by far the best event registration plugin available for Joomla. We will be doing an upgrade to Joomla 1.7 or 1.8 soon and would love to use this plugin when we do the update. Tuan, thanks for all your hard work and the custom coding you have done for us!!
~JH

Will try to implement it on version 1.4.1 . Otherwise, It will be avaialble on 1.4.2 for sure !

Regards,

Tuan

Thank you, Tuan! That will be fantastic!

Hi Tuan

Have you happened to have a chance to implement the thumbnail images in the calendar view?

It would be fantastic to have different icons for each event so that customers can easily tell the difference between events.

I hope you can implement it soon.

Thanks for all your great work!

How is this looking now? Still no thumbnails????

Hello Tuan !
I purchased EB quite a while ago and I have to admit I have yet to publish it on my site because of the thumbnail issue...
personally I use the default view (list view?) rather than the calendar and it make good sense to have a thumbnail to every event in a list of events. Otherwise the list might not look appealing to the potential customer, and even dull.

Please consider adding this feature, for the benefit of all EB users.

Many Thanks !
Yariv

I will try to add support for this feature ASAP but to be honest, right now, I am still too busy with some works !

Regards,

Tuan