Add Custom Placeholder

hello,

how about using placeholder #_EVENTDATES ?

Placeholder details:
Displays either a single date or a date range depending on your event dates. Format is taken from your Events Manager settings page.

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/

I’m aware of this placeholder but I’m trying to integrate this plugin with AddThisEvent so that events can get imported directly into hotmail, outlook, yahoo, etc. onclick. All the placeholder’s work seemlessly with AddThisEvent but I specifically need to display only the start date and end date separately.

I tried overriding /events-manager/classes/em-event.php with the following code starting at line 1500:

`case ‘#_EVENTSTARTDATE’:
//get event start date
$date_format = ( get_option(‘dbem_date_format’) ) ? get_option(‘dbem_date_format’):get_option(‘date_format’);
if( $this->event_start_date != $this->event_end_date){
$replace = date_i18n($date_format, $this->start);
}
break;
case ‘#_EVENTENDDATE’:
//get event end date
$date_format = ( get_option(‘dbem_date_format’) ) ? get_option(‘dbem_date_format’):get_option(‘date_format’);
if( $this->event_start_date != $this->event_end_date){
$replace = date_i18n($date_format, $this->end);
}
break; `

But it doesn’t want to override it when I put it in (theme)/plugins/event-manager/classes/em-event.php. This is why I’m asking what I’m doing incorrectly in adding the filter (referenced in my initialpost) to my theme functions.php file. Thanks again for your time.

I’m not sure why the code command didn’t work in that last post so I’ll try again.

case '#_EVENTSTARTDATE':
//get event start date
	$date_format = ( get_option('dbem_date_format') ) ?
        get_option('dbem_date_format'):get_option('date_format');
	if( $this->event_start_date != $this->event_end_date){
	      $replace = date_i18n($date_format, $this->start);
	      }
	break;
case '#_EVENTENDDATE':
//get event end date
	$date_format = ( get_option('dbem_date_format') ) ?
        get_option('dbem_date_format'):get_option('date_format');
	if( $this->event_start_date != $this->event_end_date){
	        $replace = date_i18n($date_format, $this->end);
		}
	break;

`

maybe you can check this out – https://pastebin.com/LecuD8bp

Thanks a bunch. When I do the following code I get a start date (#_EVENTSTARTDATE) just fine:

add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder','my_em_placeholder_mod_eventdates',1,3);
function my_em_placeholder_mod_eventdates($replace, $EM_Event, $result){
        if ( $result == '#_EVENTSTARTDATE' ) {
                if( $EM_Event->event_start_date != $EM_Event->event_end_date){
                       $replace = date_i18n('d-m-Y', $EM_Event->start);
                }
        }
        return $replace;
}

But, when I try to extend it to include an end date only (#EVENTENDDATE)with the following code it still shows the start date but nothing comes through for the end date:

add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder','my_em_placeholder_mod_eventdates',1,3);
function my_em_placeholder_mod_eventdates($replace, $EM_Event, $result){
        if ( $result == '#_EVENTSTARTDATE' ) {
                if( $EM_Event->event_start_date != $EM_Event->event_end_date){
                        $replace = date_i18n('d-m-Y', $EM_Event->start);
                }
		elseif ( $result == '#_EVENTENDDATE' ) {
				if	( $EM_Event->event_end_date != $EM_Event->event_start_date){
                       $replace = date_i18n('d-m-Y', $EM_Event->end);
                }
        }
}
        return $replace;
}

Do you happen to know anything about the architecture of the plugin that might explain this? Thanks again for your help. It’s greatly appreciated.

I’m clearly no php expert I just thought there must be a way to display the end date. I realize the elseif statement doesn’t make any sense.

You’ll need to create a separate custom placeholder for #_EVENTENDDATE without the elseif statement.

Thank you so much caimin_nwl and angelo. I was able to make it work with the following code:

add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder','my_em_placeholder_mod_eventdatesend',2,3);
function my_em_placeholder_mod_eventdatesend($replace, $EM_Event, $result){
        if ( $result == '#_EVENTENDDATE' ) {
                        $replace = date_i18n('m-d-Y', $EM_Event->end);
       }
        return $replace;
}

add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder','my_em_placeholder_mod_eventdates',1,3);
function my_em_placeholder_mod_eventdates($replace, $EM_Event, $result){
        if ( $result == '#_EVENTSTARTDATE' ) {
                       $replace = date_i18n('m-d-Y', $EM_Event->start);
        }
        return $replace;
}

I had previously tried to do a separate custom placeholder for #_EVENTENDDATE but didn’t realize that the priority had to be set to 2 instead of 1. I will likely add some else statements for my purposes but this seems to work.

Also as a sidepoint, incase anyone is looking for a solution to this, I’ve been able to integrate this with AddThisEvent so that if the user clicks on links for Outlook, Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, or iCalendar the event is automatically directed to their calendar. I still have a couple kinks to work out but for the most part it works just fine. Thanks again for your help. Event Manager rules and today is a good day ??

glad it worked and thanks for sharing.