Fatal error for list calendar of past events

Do you have some kind of HTML in the event builder or anything? ALso does it change anything if you reduce the earliest event time (just curious here)?

No HTML in the event builder.

Reduced the earliest event to two years before start date and the error disappears. Hmm. This process can’t take up all that much memory, can it?

Unfortunately it still doesn’t work as expected. For example, there are 8 events currently listed in the calendar from 1st June 2015 to the end of the year. 7 in the past as I type, and 1 in the future. But with the settings as follows, I get “nothing to show” displayed.

Calendar start: today
Earliest event: two years before start date
Latest event: day end of start date

Hang on a mo. One of my sites just fell over. Hmmm. Nick, please don’t think any more about this until I’ve worked out if there’s a wider problem. I’ll be back soon as. Cheers.

Ok sure keep me updated. Glad to help with whatever you need.

Hi Nick. False alarm. Cpanel fixed something on my server completely unrelated to the matter here.

I just tried again here by deleting the calendar that looked backwards (the one that didn’t work), and cloned the calendar that looks forwards (the one that does work). The clone worked while a perfect clone. I then tweaked it by just changing the three fields to:

Calendar start: today
Earliest event: two years before start date
Latest event: day end of start date

And I get “Nothing to show”, as you can see. Really don’t know why. Help!

If you are trying to show the past events you need to set “Calendar Start” to something before “today”.

Thanks Nick. Calendar Start is defined as the default calendar opening date, so I thought it was related to the display of the calendar (ie, where it’s open at to begin with) rather than the range the calendar covers.

I’ve now got:

Calendar start: three years before current
Earliest event: same as start date
Latest event: three years after start date

And this now works nearly as perfectly as the old Google Calendar Events. With that plugin I could then set the shortcode to list these events in reverse chronological order (which is why I’d previously tried to ‘open’ the calendar for today and work backwards).

How do I now do this in Simple Calendar?

Thanks for your help. Really appreciated.

Oh dear. Two more problems I’m afraid.

First, I tried five years instead of three, but that changes nothing. Hit UPDATE now four times, but to no avail. Three years is still shown on the webpage. (And I’ve cleared browser cache.)

Second, every time I hit UPDATE I get the following error. But then every time the webpage in question is called after that there is no such error. I’ve tried this in both FF and Safari and get this same behaviour.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 41943040 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 50672 bytes) in /home/philipsh/public_html/eulerpartners/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 316

You might be hitting the Google cap of 2500 max events maybe?

No. Over five years we’re looking at maybe a hundred, max.

If you shorten how far it goes back is there a point where the error stops showing?

As you can see earlier in this thread, when I reduced it to two years that stopped this error occurring. But we really are only talking about a dozen or so events a year, 20 max.

Interesting. Ok thanks for the update. I will have to run some tests and see what’s going on.

Thanks!

Any luck with this being fixed on 3.0.11?

Hi Nick, thanks for asking.

I’m now on WP 4.4 and Simple Calendar 3.0.11 and I’m afraid the situation has got worse. All I get now is:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 41943040 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 73811 bytes) in …/public_html/eulerpartners/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 523

Even when I refresh, whilst previously I then got the calendar page, I just now get this error message. I get this in relation to the calendar listing the past events, and get it for 5 years and for 2 years, despite this only encompassing dozens rather than hundreds of events.

Deleting the shortcode for the backwards looking calendar, leaving only the forwards looking calendar, and the webpage in question serves just fine.

Best, Philip.