How to approach this?
Development and Programming
Hi, I’m looking at EE and the Calendar plugin to have a public events website. I would like to be able to have members suscribing to events (posts) and those members are alerted with an email a day before the event. What’s the correct approach to this? an extension, plugin? I can’t figure this out. I have CI knowledge and feel I can make controllers and models but, where would they fit?
thanks!
Calendar plugin? If this is the Solspace Calendar add-on then posting on their support forums would probably be a better idea.
If not you’re probably looking at needing to develop a custom module.
Yes, I’m planning tu use the Solspace Calendar add-on. But how should approach members saving events to their profile and having a auto reminder of the event via email?
Well again, since you are using a 3rd party plugin for the calendar function then posting int the Solsplace forums for approaches on how to extend it is probably a better idea. Solspace has a Favorites add-on that might help the “saving to profile” part of your requirements.
I’m interested in knowing the extending capabilities of Expression Engine via Codeigniter code, so I would really like to hear thoughts of how to achieve this in the EE recommended way. Is it an extension? a plugin? why?
Yes, but I’m still confused to which kind of extension I should use and which is the logic of what It’s needed to do. I guess that saving an event means I should point to a url/controller of events/8589/save and that event should be saved to the logged user. Is that logic correct? Is that possible with EE? How should I aproach this?
Create a module, which a few actions to subscribe/unsubscribe and notify.
Then later on you can make a cronjob that calls the notify action e.g: http://domain.com/index.php?act=123.
More on these actions in the developer docs….
Thanks for the advise. I’ll look into it, then!