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Greetings-

The UBB calendar seems to work well exposed into a Drupal block... (Link to thread) with Firefox. IE8 is giving an error message. I found out how to enable IE script debugging, and it complains about this line of code which is generated by UBB.

day = get_object("day" + today);

It says that variable today is not defined, which indeed at first glance does not seem to me to be defined. Suggestions?

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yep, that is a bug

you could (temporarily just remove that javascript section.

it's trying (and failing) to decide which day is today and then css it accordingly to make it stand out on the calendar..

i don't have time to look deeper, but the fix is perty simple too, if you know some javascript smile

header.tpl loads up the value of the today variable as it stands in ubbthread "var today='17';" for example if you view this page's source.

so the solution would be (since you aren't getting that passed into the drupal) to populate today with the value of todays day in month. i can't remember off hand what it is in javascript, but it's googlable if you can't wait til i get back to it wink

edit: never mind.. add these two lines before that line of code

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var ubbcal=new Date();
var today=ubbcal.getDay();

should do it smile

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Shall I post that into the PHP code snippet that produces the HTML for the calendar block... or do I need to add those lines of code to one of the UBB .php files? A bit of context would be quite helpful. Thanks!

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right before the echo <table>

add

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echo <<<GET_TODAY
<script>
var ubbcal=new Date();
var today=ubbcal.getDay();
</script>
GET_TODAY;


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That code is in UBB file templates/default/island_public_calendar.tpl

So I modified the version on the server as follows:
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<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var ubbcal = new Date();
var today = ubbcal.getDay();
day = get_object("day" + today);
currenttitle = day.title;
day.title = "<?php echo $ubbt_lang['TODAY'] ?>\n" + currenttitle;
day.className = "standouttext";
// ]]>
</script>

I then rebuilt the cache so the update would take affect, checked in with Firefox and saw the added two lines.

Now IE8 throws an "Object expected" error on the "day = get_object("day" + today);" line of code.

Further suggestions, please.

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aaaahhhh... FF's error console to the rescue now. It says that "get_object" is not defined. That was in the code already... rrr???

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This appears to be defined in this file, though inclusion of this file is not within island_public_calendar.tpl

ubb_js/ubb_jslib.js:function get_object(obj)

That just might be a problem...

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Bump... may we have some help with this issue please?

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day = document.getElementById('day' + today);

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You should be able to change this line:

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day = get_object("day" + today);


to this:

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day = document.getElementById("day" + today);


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SD is too fast for me.

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