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I would like to further customize my registration form, how can I access it's HTML? NOT THE CSS!!!!! Besides using the F12 key. I would like the ability to edit according to my own needs and format.

If I am somehow unable to access the HTML, (which I hope is NOT the case) how can I rearrange the format of the registration form manually???

Any insightful information will be much appreciated!!

Are you talking about the order of the form fields? To answer your question, we need actual specifics... then we can help.

Specifically.....

I do not wish to change the order of the fields, that it quite simple and I do not need help in that sense. I was wondering if it were possible to add another category on the top of the form, next to "Event" and "Date." My boss would like to add an additional category, is this possible? If not an entirely new category, is it possible to have the date in one column and the time of the event in another?


And while I'm asking, is it possible to edit the "Event Registration" title which appears on the top of the page? I would like it to say "Upcoming Events" instead. That is why I thought perhaps an html view would allow me to edit the things I want. I look forward to your response.

There is no "feature" for adding new data into new columns in the list of events. We intend to add that type of functionality in future development though. You'd have to code in new columns... or modifying existing columns. These files would be included:
/components/com_dtregister/views/event/tmpl/list.php
/components/com_dtregister/views/event/tmpl/list_row.php

To modify text like "Event Registration" or any other text throughout the component, modify the language file which is located with the language files for all of your other extensions:

/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_dtregister.ini

Thanks.

I have successfully moved location from the description field into a column of its own. I'll do a write up later today and post back here.

I've also added location as a column to the backend admin view of events to help event selection. I'll write that up to.

Why they're not there already I don't know.

Thanks for responding!

If you could let me know how you successfully moved content into different columns, that would be amazing! I would really appreciate it!

Hi jjermyn,
I hope I haven't mislead you. I have re-read your post and realise you are specifically talking about the registration form where I was talking about the event list.

I am however about to start some work of my own on the registration form trying to rework some of the fees so should be able to deconstruct things enought to provide you some help.

I'll get back to you shortly.

No no no, you were right. I was talking about the event list. Any help would definitely be appreciated! I'd love to hear how you were able to do this whenever you get a chance, thanks a bunch!

OK, quick write up on changing list layout.
Disclaimer: I'm no developer, my code aint pretty!

Locations Column in Event List

Files:
/components/com_dtregister/views/event/tmpl/list.php
/components/com_dtregister/views/event/tmpl/list_row.php

First create HTML override for your template (skip if already done):

Navigate to:
/components/com_dtregister/views/event/

Copy the /tmpl folder to /templates/yourtemplate/html/com_dtregister
(you will need to create the /com_dtregister sub folder first)

Rename the tmpl folder to "event"

OK, now override is in place, let's change things.
The code in most of these files is all over the place in terms of white space, so line numbers may vary..don't change if you can't find exact lines.

in file: list.php

Near line 342, you should find this line:

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<th class="coltitle" align="left" width="<?php echo $config->getGlobal('event_field_width',0); ?>"><?php echo JText::_( 'DT_EVENT' );?></th>

And then this line:

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<?php $j=2;

I added this line in between those two:

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<th class="coltitle" align="left" width="150px"><?php echo JText::_( 'DT_LOCATION' );?></th>


I then changed

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<?php $j=2; to <?php $j=3;

because $j is counting columns and we just added another one.

Then in file: list_row.php

At around line 249 you should find:

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<?php if($config->getGlobal('event_date_show')){ ?>

Immediately before this, I added:

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<td align="left" class="eventlist">
  <?php
    if($row->location_id !="" && $row->location_id > 0 && $config->getGlobal('showlocation',0)){
      $locationTable->load($row->location_id);
      if($locationTable->name !=""){?>
        <a rel="rokbox[545 490]" href="<?php echo JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_dtregister&controller=location&task=show&id=".$row->location_id."&tmpl=component&type=rokboxy",$xhtml_url,false) ?>"   ><?php echo stripslashes($locationTable->name);?></a>
      <?php
      }
    }
  ?>
</td>

I'm using rokbox for my popups, much nicer . You'll need to edit this url to suite your setup. The original url is rem'd out below (starts from <a> after "&nbsp;", copy upto </a>. Best to use that if you're not sure.

Around line 111 you should find:

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<td align="left" class="eventlist"><span class="event_title"><?php echo $row->title;?></span>

and then:

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<?php } ?>

I rem'd out everything from the next line starting <?php

All this:

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<?php

           if($row->location_id !="" && $row->location_id > 0 && $config->getGlobal('showlocation',0)){

                $locationTable->load($row->location_id);

                 if($locationTable->name !=""){

             echo "<br />&nbsp;".JText::_('DT_LOCATION'); ?>:&nbsp;<a class="colorbox" href="<?php echo JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_dtregister&controller=location&task=show&id=".$row->location_id."&tmpl=component",$xhtml_url,false) ?>"   ><?php echo stripslashes($locationTable->name);?></a>

         <?php

              if($config->getGlobal('linktogoogle')==1){

          ?>

         <?php

               }

               }

             }

           echo $this->loadTemplate('moderator');

Stop before:

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4br = false;

The moderator entry I didn't need, I think you can disable this in configuration but at the time it seemed to hang around, so I removed it here...

That was it I think. I stupidly forgot to write this up for myself so I've had to recreate this from scratch. If it doesn't work, PM me and we'll work it out.

The result should look like my attached image.

Hope it's of use
Gary

Thank you so much! It looks great! I really appreciate you helping me out with this!!!!