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Thanks for your time.

My goal is to cause manually-toggled calendar events to display on the front page.  To do this, the calendar queries a private forum, which the frontpage sticky then reads from.

The problem is, the calendar uses raw HTML, frontpage uses raw HTML, however the forum uses BBcode and parses any HTML it sees.  I need to find a way around that, either by making the forum stop parsing the damn calendar entry, or by creating a different repository for the data which uses raw HTML and would match, or by letting the checkbox 'flag' a certain calendar post as 'current', causing frontpage to point to it as its source item.

Or maybe there's a better way than any of those, that's just what I've come up with.

What I'm doing right now is attempting to get the calendar to write to the admin text in the frontpage plugin, since I don't need multiple 'current' events at once.  The problem I'm running into is that when I read the backup file, the sql entries don't make sense to me (mainly because I've never used sql before) - mostly this is what's troublesome:

INSERT INTO site_config (conf_name, conf_value) VALUES('fp_sticky_txt', 'data');

I have no idea what conf_name and conf_value are supposed to be changed to for a static query from calendar, because I haven't been able to make sense out of the variable assignments above that block of queries, which leaves me with my current problem of "how the hell do I get at the frontpage data?".

As I said before, there may be a much cleaner implementation than what I'm shooting for, so if you're inclined to leave a reply, feel free to criticize any vector of this post.

Thanks again, and in advance for any assistance,
--Radix