nutsmuggler

This is getting ridiculous.
I also get e-mails weekly asking questions about EME.

God knows I hate managing private questions publicly, but maybe this is a public question, since users are confused about the two plugin, and this is more even serious now that the’ve diverged.

We never got an answer to the last email we sent you (October 2010), to find a way out of this mess TOGETHER.
I cannot but think it is your interest to keep this confusion alive, and to keep “Events Manager Extended” as a name that implies EME extends EM (which is not quite accurate, just look at the code).

I see malevolence here, and even if I am not responsible for the plugin anymore it’s not pleasant.

It’d be nice to get a feedback.
Davide

Hello,
the best way to accomplish that is to inject you GA code into the PHP that is generated fo the response. presently this would involve some manual hacking; take a look at the em-bookings.php file, after line 68; you’ll see a if-elseif chain, you can inject your js code where appropriate for your tracking goals.
Even better, my colleague Marcus is integrating a number of action/filters into EM; with the next releases adding a js to the relative area wil be much simpler, it will be justa matter of adding a action into your theme.
Davide

Hello inksprite.
The dbem_get_events_list isn’t being phased out at all: it’s in our ‘deprecated’ file, for we mean to provide a better alternative soonish, but it’s still there for backward compatibility, and we’re not going to remove it.
In short, it is supposed to work as it did before.

Can you paste the code you are using to generate the events list?

Also, just for debug purposes, have you tried deactivating other plugins?

Cheers,
Davide of EM

Rootman, under the hood the two plugins are totally different, so merging is not really an option anymore.

Rick, EM 3.0+ is a completely rewritten plugin currently focusing on total stability and super flexibility; EME is EM 2.2.2 with lots of bugfixes and added features.

Features are in the pipline also for EM but, as Franky wisely said, a bidding war is not a good idea. ? ?

Cheers,
Davide

Apparently there’s a problem on WP.org, a ticket has been filed by other developers.

Meanwhile you can get the plugin here::

https://davidebenini.it/em-3.0.3.zip

Cheers,
Davide

Thanks for the prompt response and for moving the post.
Well, I guess we’ll keep fingers crossed.
Cheers,
Davide

Franky, Elizabeth did precisely what you didn’t do: she fired me an email and asked me if it was ok to fork. I said it was ok, as I would have said to you. Mind, she didn’t have to ask, it’s the GPL after all, but she did out of courtesy, and I appreciated that.

What she didn’t do was spamming my own forum saying Events Manager was dead. That is what caused the present confusion in the first place. You see, if you had just e-mailed me we wouldn’t be here having this discussion. My email is everywhere on the code and in the support pages.

Also, Elizabeth didn’t lift the docs from my website without asking. And those are not GPLed.

I am sorry I wasn’t monitoring the forum a few weeks ago (I also have a life, and was on holiday, so I am not going to do seppuku for that), but I don’t think my lack of an answer there allows you to declare to the world our plugin is dead. BTW, if you really think I wasn’t monitoring the forum, why didn’t you send an email? It would have made even more sense.

On the other hand, thanks for the changes in the readme, I really appreciate that. And again, I have nothing against EME, it’s my own code after all, and I took all the blame for the design errors it might contain (see my earlier post)

I don’t like washing dirty clothes in public and sorry we had to come to this. Which is quite unnecessary; If you had answered yesterday’s e-mail we wouldn’t be discussing this here, and would be quarrelling like gentlemen, each in its own inbox ??

Again, peace.
Davide

This is Davide Benini, aka nutsmuggler, the developer of Events Manager, the original plugin.

EME is a fork of EM 2.2; (original) Events Manager 3.0 was released a few days ago, after having been in the work for a couple of months. It features an entirely rewritten object-oriented core, and a new API for advanced users. Marcus Sykes, co-developer, has spent weeks doing this job.
A few weeks ago we asked liedekef if he wanted to merge back; he politely declined and invited us to merge into his fork, saying it was richer at this stage. The thing is EME is not richer than EM, it’s based on now obsolete code. Liedekef has implemented some new features, but the EM core is now far more advanced; anyone can see that looking at the way the code is written, or even at the folder structure. And here I am not blaming Liedekef, I am blaming my own 2 years old code ??

Yesterday we reiterated the proposal to Liedekef via e-mail, he hasn’t answered yet. We’re still waiting.

Davide

Hey Bert, I definitely, remember!
BTW, I’ll contact you and the other main sponsors in private, we have great stuff in the pipeline. Also, since Marcus Sykes has joined the team now it’ll be much easier to maintain EM.

Indeed Jessica,
we’re launching a new version soon. We’re in the debugging ohase at the moment.
Stay tuned.
Davide

Quite strange. Have you tried redownloading the plugin? Sorry for the silly question, but it’s always better to ask. At any rate, we’re launching a new version of the plugin, fully compatible with WP 3.0 in a few weeks; I’ll add your problem to the checklist.
Davide

We’re launching a new version of the plugin, fulluy compatible with WP 3.0 in a few weeks, stay tuned.
Davide

It’s unicode utf-8; the database collation is utf8_general_ci, and so is the table collation.

Hello folks,
there must be indeed be a problem with the display of time. I haven’t been able to reproduce it in my machine, for it seems related to older PHP/MySQL versions, but my friend and main tester Brian experienced the same problem on one of his servers. Also, it’s a strange bug that comes and goes unpredictably. To circumvent it, in 2.0b4 I introduced a set of 4 new pre-made time placeholders, documented here.
I hope they are useful for those experiencing problems with the PHP format characters.
Davide (EM Developer)

RFearns, that has changed indeed. You should insert #_LOCATION, it’s in the docs.
This was a change to 1.0 to 2.0, we have been giving a lot of thought about the venue > location issue, there’s a long sequence of mail between me an my tester discussing the issue. I am quite opinionated on design issues and I guess sometimes it’s better to push the change to the users.
About the map, in the new version is loaded lazily, so I guess the javascript that loads the map doesn’t get loaded. In case you use Firebug, do you get any javascript error?