Event Calendar for Wordpress with Gravity Forms

this is a post continuing the conversation from BuddyPress Community so i use jquery-ui first off, but if you just want today’s events, you don’t need to use it it also assumes that you are using Gravity Forms to have your users submit posts to a category called "events" with custom fields for event data. In this case i am storing the event date in a custom field to keep it separate from the post date...as they are not the same. so the first part is what is in my sidebar.php file

<?
$today = date('m/d/Y');
$tomorrow = mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d')+1, date('y')); $tomorrowCompare = date('m/d/Y', $tomorrow);
?>

This next part is still in the sidebar.php

// This sets up the buttons with the days that will reveal the events that match the date
<ul>
<li><a href="#tabs-1"><? echo date('D'); ?><br><span><? echo date('j'); ?></span></a></li>
<li><a href="#tabs-2"><? echo date('D', $tomorrow); ?><br><span><? echo date('j', $tomorrow); ?></span></a></li>
</ul>

<?
// this is still in the sidebar.php file
// the '1' is the ID of the jquery tab.  you would increment this number for as many days that you want to show at a time. also changing "$today" to "$tomorrowCompare"...from above
generate_week_events('1', $today);
generate_week_events('2', $tomorrowCompare);
?>

the function then compares the date fed in as an argument to the date in the custom field. if there is a match, then it shows the corresponding events. i just placed this in my functions.php of my theme

<?
function generate_week_events($id, $date) {
global $post;
?>