BT contacted me asking about a feature of the Hums site which SA had proposed and possibly implemented that would provide a short-form view of the events calendar events, suitable for copy/pasting into a weekly email. I poked around on the site, and I found that the RSS reader object is based on some code I adapted years ago for the GRS site, so I've seen it before, but it's been modified considerably to handle the multiple calendar sources. The reader has a "shortForm" parameter that causes it to spit out the events in a shorter form. That can't be set externally, unfortunately -- it's private and there's no setter function -- so as a quick workaround I created a new page called eventsSimple.php which re-creates the reader with the shortForm parameter set to true in the constructor.

The resulting output for each event consists only of a date and a title, which is linked to something that doesn't work. Obviously we'll have to tweak it, so I'm waiting for details from BT about what he'd like to see in the list, and then I'll make some modifications to the reader to make the short form output more useful, testing everything in the :8080 first.