Adding Link to Event

1. you can use custom event attribute for this

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-attributes/
https://snippets.webaware.com.au/snippets/events-manager-conditional-placeholders-for-custom-attributes/

2. did you mean the theme header?

I can’t wrap my head around this plugin. Don’t know why, as it seems really simple, so I think I’m going to try writing a PHP snippet to grab the data and do it that way.

I’ve written the code, but it’s not printing. Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

function filterURL(){

	/// Create connection
	$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
	// Check connection
	if ($conn->connect_error) {
    		die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
	} 

	/// Read and parse data
	$sql = "SELECT event_slug, event_attributes FROM wp_em_events";
	$result = $conn->query($sql);

	if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
		// output data of each row
		while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
			$eventSlug = $row["event_slug"];
			$bandURL = $row["event_attributes"];
			if (preg_match($post->post_name == $eventSlug && "/html/i", $bandURL)) {
				echo "<a href='" . $bandURL . ">Band Website</a>";
			}
		}

	   }

    return;

    mysqli_close($conn);

}

sorry but I’m afraid we are limited with regards to custom snippet as per the support policy – https://eventsmanagerpro.com/support-policy/

Yeah, I understand about the snippet. So let’s go back to the initial question (as the snippet is simply because I don’t understand your system yet).

My initial questions:

1) If there is a band URL, how do I insert it into the notes?

2) If there are EVENT NOTES (or a URL), I want to have a header that reads, “Event Details.” If there are EVENT NOTES and no URL, I don’t want that header to appear.

How do I do this? From what I gather, it can be done without an additional function.

Also, I’ve noticed that on mobile platforms that the links on the calendar to the events pages aren’t working. Is this my coding or the plugin? Thanks.

can I know what do you mean add in your header, theme header?

Ha! No, just an H1 tag. That kind of header.

I have decided to pull the events page altogether. That should make this simpler.

Instead, I just want to link to an outside URL via the title of event on the calendar. For example, if Pearl Jam was playing, that listing on the calendar would link to Pearl Jam’s website. Not all events would have such a link, so it would need to be an attribute that could be used when appropriate.

you can try something like <a href="#_ATT{band_link}">#_EVENTNAME</a>

Thank you. And that worked beautifully, EXCEPT that not all events have links, and that placed a link to every event (even those without a link).

I’m sure there’s a function within your plugin that tests for the presence of attributes, yes?

Unfortunately not (afaik) but you can create your own custom placeholder.
https://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/create-a-custom-placeholder-for-event-formatting/

basicly something like this:

function em_bandlink_placeholder($replace, $EM_Event, $result) {
	if ( $result == '#_BANDLINK' ) {
		$hasbandlink = do_shortcode('[event id="'.$EM_Event->event_id.'"]#_ATT{band_link}[/event]');
		if ( !empty($hasbandlink) ) {
			$replace = '<a href="'.$hasbandlink.'">'.$EM_Event->event_name.'</a>';
		}
	}
	return $replace;
}
add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder','em_bandlink_placeholder', 1, 3);

The code above should be added to your functions.php.

Basically you create your own placeholder named #_BANDLINK.

If this is used in a template #_BANKDLINK will be replaced with the code above. It first reads the custom attribute. If there is a value in #_ATT{band_link} it will ‘echo’ the link, linking to the attribute specified.

Hope this helps.