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hey all I was just wondering if there was a way in EE to create an upcoming events system.  similar to the “next gigs” section of this site http://nightwish.com/en/news/.

what I am planning to do is have a page where people can sign up to events and such have a full view of events, and then on the front page have a small little section that displays the upcoming events.

I’m not sure how i’m gonna do either of them i am just hoping there is someway in EE 😊

Yes, you can do this with EE, and I’m positive there are a few different ways to handle it.  I tend to go with using separate weblogs for each of my data pieces - so I’d set up an “Events” weblog to capture and display the relevant events data.  So, that’s probably a good first step: decide what weblogs you’ll need to create to both capture and spit out your data.

When you say “sign up to events”, do you mean: “Log in and submit events”?  If so, you’ll probably want to examine using a SAEF for this.  That way, users will be able to go to something like a “submit an event” page and they’ll be able to enter their own events and you can eventually control how they’re approved and displayed.

So, then the rest of this is easier.  You posted “Have a full view of events”.  I achieved something similar by using the Repeet plugin to display my events.  I’d imagine you’d probably be able to use the same method to use on your front page in a sidebar or something - you’d just have to limit the amount of results you want to display.

I’m sort of generalizing here, but you really can create an events calendar with EE.  If you search the forums for “calendar” and/or “events”, you’ll see some really great threads that should help light the way for you.  Trust me, I’ve been through quite a few of them and started a few of my own.  Earlier in the year, I was working on a personal project that never launched, but I was trying to come up with a nice way to display upcoming concerts at a listing of venues - both the concerts and venues details were to be user contributed.  Users would be able to view a list of all upcoming concerts as well as be able to view each venue on a separate page along with that venue’s upcoming concerts.

I got it to work, but I can’t give away all the secrets 😉

Thanks Ctrlaltdel 😊  you’ve been alot of help.  but I’m not really sure I understand what the Repeet plug in is for?

It’s been almost a year since I was working on it, but I think the problem that Repeet helped me solve was a display problem.  I wanted the events to show up in a certain way, and I couldn’t get it to work without the Repeet plugin.

I think that the events were showing up like this:

Tuesday
Venue 1
Event 1

Tuesday
Venue 2
Event 2

Tuesday
Venue 3
Event 3

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And what I wanted to do was have them show up like

Tuesday’s Events
Event 1 at Venue 1
Event 2 at Venue 2
Event 3 at Venue 3

Wednesday’s Events
Event 4 at Venue 1
Event 5 at Venue 2

and so on.  Basically, I think Repeet helped me solve my display problem.  It may or may not help you, but it’s a nice weapon to keep in your arsenal, should you need it.  Good luck.

Oh, and here are two links that might offer you some more inspiration:

The Almighty Calendar thread and then the calendar example linked from that thread:
example