Show Future events from around now

I was getting a bit irritated having to enable PHP and get the current time to use the start_on and show_future_entries feature of the weblogs tag.

I have created a plug-in that avoids all of that. Mind you, I had to use an un-documented feature to get it to work.

I call it AroundNow. Here is an example of its use:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="events start_on="{exp:aroundnow goback='12'}" parse="inward" show_future_entries="yes" sort="asc"}
{title}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

There is one parameter: goback - so:

goback='12'

will start the events listing from 12 hours ago. This is just in case you want to keep the event ‘alive’ for at least part of a day.

I am dropping it here in case it might be of use to anyone. Make sure you put the hours in single quotes and remember to use show_future_entries=”yes”.

I have only tested on EE version 1.52

CJ