Comments on: Events Calendar 6.0

By: Celina Roefaro

Celina Roefaro — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:52:34 +0000

[..] A bit unrelated, but I rather liked this website post [..]

By: Martin Margheim

Martin Margheim — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:45:14 +0000

I have used the Event Calendar for several years. A recurring event functionality is essential for a calendar. Apparently, even the latest version still does not off recurring event functionality.

By: ronbme

ronbme — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:53:33 +0000

@ralphs,

Great! Glad to hear it and thanks for letting us know.

Ron

By: ralphs

ralphs — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:24:06 +0000

Gentlemen,

many thanks for your help. I changed MySQL to 5.x and everything works fine. Great plug-in

Ralph

By: ronbme

ronbme — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:24:43 +0000

Whoops! I meant to say “those with MySQL ver. 4.0 are going to have problem”.

Sorry about that.

By: ronbme

ronbme — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:22:43 +0000

JohnO,

The biggest change in the database occurred between 5.84 and 6.0xx of Events Calendar.

This is the part which changed:

“CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci”

And that was changed in four fields. Those with MySQL are going to have a problem with that. Those people are going to have to delete that from the four fields in the script Luke posted. Then they should be able to create the table.

MySQL is up to ver. 6.0, so your host should consider upgrading to at least ver. 5.0.

By: JohnO

JohnO — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:57:35 +0000

My host runs MySQL 4.1.22 and it seemed to work but then I installed it from an early release of 6.0.x
Has there been any change to the sql in recent revisions?

By: ronbme

ronbme — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:21:30 +0000

ralphs,

Thanks for including the version of MySQL. That is your problem and may be the problem for others.

There was a major upgrade with MySQL 4.1 which changes the way character sets are recognized and stored. That is why you were getting errors. (I’m surprised you haven’t gotten them before.)

You should ask your host to upgrade to MySQL 5.0, as MySQL 4.0 is way out of date.

By: Shamini

Shamini — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:29:49 +0000

Hi Luke,

First of all I want to thank you for a great-looking plugin with a lot of potential. I do have a problem though: I’m using WordPress 2.5.1, with no Widgets. When I install and activate “Event Calendar” it appears, but it’s blank. When I try to add events, nothing happens, and the calendar remains blank.

It seems like I’m experiencing the same problem as Steffen “STE7130″ Siegrist. Do you know how to fix this?

The MySQL-add-table-thingie did not work for me, I only got an error.

Thanks in advance!

Sham.

By: ralphs

ralphs — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:38:35 +0000

I used Luke’s SQL statement, modified it for my purposes and tried to create teh table. SQL error. After taking out all CHARACTER SET and COLLATE statements table was created and I can see events. So the issue seems to be a compatibility issue of database versions – no clue why there is no error message when your php is creating the table. SELECT VERSION(); of MySQL shows 4.0.27-max-log

Ralph