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Thinkling

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Event Reg page as Drupal front page?
March 29, 2008, 02:18:02 pm
I've got a Drupal 5.7 + CiviCRM 2.0.1 install.

I'd like the front page of the Drupal site to show the registration form for a specific event set up in CiviEvent. Drupal allows one to set the front page URL, so I've tried that directly as well as using a Drupal URL alias.

The URL I've used is:
civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1

Instead of going to the registration form, this goes to the CiviEvent overview page, i.e.
civicrm/event/info?reset=1

Then clicking on the event's link shows the registration page just fine.

I'd like it to go straight to the registration page. What am I missing?

Thanks!

PS: can the "Download iCalendar File" link be turned off? (or do I just hide it with some CSS? :)


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Re: Event Reg page as Drupal front page?
March 29, 2008, 02:52:30 pm
Ah, someone reminded me that Drupal will munge the query string rather than pass it on. Using a RewriteRule in .htaccess solved this problem.

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Re: Event Reg page as Drupal front page?
March 29, 2008, 03:56:14 pm

Can u please cut-n-paste the ReWriteRule u used to solve this problem. I suspect it will help a few other folks too :)

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Re: Event Reg page as Drupal front page?
March 29, 2008, 05:31:27 pm
Sure, this is the rewrite I added in drupal/.htaccess. I'm not an apache rewrite expert, so use these at your own risk. :-)

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# forward certain URLs to a CiviCRM event registration form
# add these to the .htaccess file in Drupal's root directory, below
# the line "RewriteBase /" and above Drupal's lines that deal with
# index.php?q=
#
# NOTE: this assumes the event id is 1 (edit id=1 in each line below to change)

# forward mydomain.com/ and mydomain.com/index.php
  RewriteRule ^$ /civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1 [L]
  RewriteRule ^/index.php /civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1 [L]

# forward mydomain.com/eventname
  RewriteRule ^eventname /civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1 [L]

A curiosity question: why do normal civicrm URLs that have query string components work, but setting the Drupal front page to such a URL does not? I know Drupal is hostile to variables in the query_string other than ?q=, but they get passed through OK in the normal use of urls like mydomain.com/civicrm/info?reset=1&id=1. Doesn't that string get passed by Drupal to civicrm through a hook function?

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Re: Event Reg page as Drupal front page?
March 29, 2008, 06:55:54 pm
Quote from: Thinkling on March 29, 2008, 02:18:02 pm
PS: can the "Download iCalendar File" link be turned off? (or do I just hide it with some CSS? :)

If you're ok removing the iCal links for all event info pages, best approach is to create a custom copy of the template used for that page (templates/CRM/Event/Page/Eventinfo.tpl) - and remove those links. Check out the instructions for customizing CiviCRM screens in the Develop section of the documentation.

RE: Drupal and query strings - I'm not an expert on this but in my experience the query strings aren't munged if you use a complete (i.e. not relative) URL. http://mysite.com/drupal/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1 rather than civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1
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Re: Event Reg page as Drupal front page?
April 22, 2008, 08:41:50 am
Quote from: Dave Greenberg on March 29, 2008, 06:55:54 pm
RE: Drupal and query strings - I'm not an expert on this but in my experience the query strings aren't munged if you use a complete (i.e. not relative) URL. http://mysite.com/drupal/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1 rather than civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1

I tried this but got a "Page not found" error.

However, the htaccess rewrite works perfectly.

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