Current events

This feature lets any page or template retrieve and display current and upcoming talks and events.

The template function current_events() returns a hash with two keys: current and upcoming. For each key, the value is a hash whose keys are the rooms and the values are the corresponding event.

This snippet of code displays the entire structure:

  <table>
  [% events = current_events('2007-08-28 10:00:00');
     FOREACH period = events.keys.sort %]
     
     <tr><td colspan="3"><h2>[% period %]</h2></td></tr>
     
     [% FOREACH room = events.$period.keys.sort;
          event = events.$period.$room %]
          <tr><td>[% global.config.rooms.$room OR loc("room_$room") %]</td>
              <td>[% date_format(event.datetime, 'time') %]</td>
              <td><b>[% event.title %]</b>
                  <i>([% event.duration %] {{min}})</i>
                  [% IF global.config.talks_languages %]
                  - [% global.config.talks_languages.${event.lang} %]
                  [% END %]
                  [% IF event.user %]
                    <br />{{by}} [% user_info_base(event.user) %]
                  [% END %]
              </td>
          </tr>
     [% END %]

  [% END %]
  </table>

The following example displays a more concise schedule:

    [% events = current_events();
       FOREACH period = events.keys.sort %]
       
         <tr><td colspan="3"><h1>[% period %]</h1></td></tr>
    
         [% FOREACH room = events.$period.keys.sort;
              event = events.$period.$room %]
              <tr><td>[% global.config.rooms.$room %]</td>
                  <td>[% date_format(event.datetime, 'time') %]</td>
                  <td><b>[% event.title %]</b> <i>([% event.duration %]mn)</i></td>
              </tr>
         [% END %]
    
      [% END %]

current_events() uses the current date and time to determine current and upcoming events. To accomodate testing ahead of time, the function takes a datetime string as an optional argument:

  [% events = current_events('2007-08-28 10:00:00') %]