Usage

This chapter describes how to take advantage of this extension from the user's point of view.

In order to show upcoming events in your website, need need to add a plugin to a page:

List of calendars to show in a given plugin

The plugin will show a list of calendars to choose from. You can select one or more calendars to show in the plugin. Showing multiple calendars is useful if you put the plugin on some homepage where all events from all your various places of worship should be presented.

Note

If you miss some place of worship, you will need to adapt the mapping as described in chapter Configuration.

Events are related to a location (or place of worship). Upon first encounter, this extension will automatically create a new place of worship when it encounters a new one in the calendar. Those places are fetched from theodia and stored in the storage folder you defined in your Site Configuration. Once imported, you may edit it freely.

Settings

Any setting needs to be prefixed with plugin.tx_theodia.settings. if you want to configure the plugin purely in TypoScript.

Settings

Number of events to display

numberOfEvents

type: int
Default: 10
Path: plugin.tx_theodia.settings

Number of future events to show with the plugin. If the calendar contains more events, they will be ignored and begin to show up once older events are removed as time goes by.

Show place of worship

showLocation

type: bool
Default
Path: plugin.tx_theodia.settings

Whether the location of the event should be made visible. Please note that actual display may change if the default templates are overridden. This is particularly useful to show the location of you select more than one calendar for the plugin.

Filter

filter

type: string
Default: empty string
Path: plugin.tx_theodia.settings

This is a regular expression that lets you filter the events that are shown. For example, if you want to show only events that are related to a mass for families, you could select all calendars and use the following filter:

/famil(y|ies)/i

This will show all events, in any place of worship, that contain the word "family" or "families" in their title (case insensitive).

Another typical example (in French) is to show only events were the parish's choir is involved:

/ch(oe|œ)ur[ -]+mixte/i

Use an iframe block

iframe

type: bool
Default
Path: plugin.tx_theodia.settings

This generates a standard iframe block instead of a list of events, just as you would do on your own when you embed the default JS-based widget from theodia.

Many options may be passed as parameter but the whole point of using this TYPO3 extension is to be much more flexible and better in term of SEO than the standard widget, so this option is not recommended and only basic options are selected. You can adapt the default CSS to your needs though.