Display Current Month Title Being Viewed in Calendar Grid View

[likemindsdesigns]

Hello,
I want to display the Month Name and Year of the month being viewed in Calendar Grid View. For example, if the user is looking at April 2013, I want it to say “April 2013” above the calendar. Then if they click the next arrow, I want it to say “May 2013” above the calendar.

I have tried using the functions in my calendar grid view template ‘tribe_get_current_month_text()’ and ‘tribe_get_displayed_month()’ but they only display April (the current month). How do I get the text displayed for the month VIEWED.

[likemindsdesigns]

By the way, the function ‘tribe_get_displayed_month()’ does display the Month Year like I want it to.

However, my problem is that it only shows correctly if I force refresh my browser each time a view a different month. So the calendar refreshes the Ajax but not the browser when I use the next/previous links.

[Jonah]

Hi likemindsdesigns,

You should be able to accomplish this by using the following in your /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/gridview.php file. Make sure to make a copy and place in an ‘events’ folder before you make changes. I added this to line 22 and it works for me: http://snippi.com/s/9qmtppj

Does that help?

[likemindsdesigns]

Hi Jonah,
No, the problem with that is that the month “April” displays even when a user hits the May–> forward button. The only way to get the correct month to display is to refresh the page. However, the calendar refreshes the Ajax, and not the overall page. How can I force refresh?

http://mscra.com/events/2013-03/
http://mscra.com/events/2013-04/
(By the way, wish there was a way to send screen captures to illustrate problem). Thank you for your help!

[likemindsdesigns]

** SOLVED **
I am posting this solution if it will help any other users.

FIRST, I was placing the function to get month text outside of the Ajax div. By placing it inside, I was able to get the refresh feature I wanted.
SECOND, I created a new function to get current year text. I added this function to the file “calendar.php”:
/**
* Current Year Text
*
* Returns a textual description of the current year
*
* @return string Name of the current year.
* @since 2.0
*/
function tribe_get_current_year_text( ) {
return date( ‘Y’, strtotime( tribe_get_month_view_date() ) );
}
THIRD, I updated my “gridview.php” template to include this line:

I hope this will help someone. Thank you for your help Jonah! I suggest adding that Get Year text function to the next release.

[likemindsdesigns]

Include this line in gridview.php:

[likemindsdesigns]

Ok, sorry it is not letting me post PHP code. Basically you want to add the line to echo the functions to get month text and join that with get year text. Hope this will help!

[Jonah]

Hi likemindsdesigns,

Thanks for posting your solution. Sorry about our code posting troubles, I suggest posting to code to http://snippi.com/ and then sharing the link here.

Regards,
Jonah

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