How to get the Category Name for Event in the template

  • Resolved n4pwpsupport

    (@n4pwpsupport)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there.

    On the Single Event page I’m trying to get the name of one of the several categories the Event is assigned to. How to get it and use in the single-event.php?

    For example:

    Event_ID = 1234
    It assigned to the categories ‘New‘, ‘Start‘, ‘Test‘, ‘West‘.

    The
    <?php the_category(' &bull; '); ?>

    returns all these categories as the list.

    But the

    $category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->cat_name;

    returns nothing. The array is empty.

    How to get the name ‘Test’ for example?

    Many thanks!

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  • Plugin Support angelo_nwl

    (@angelo_nwl)

    you can try something like $EM_Event->output('#_CATEGORYNAME')

    Thread Starter n4pwpsupport

    (@n4pwpsupport)

    Angelo, thanks for the info.

    But how to get the first/second/third category name/id?

    In vanila WP the 

    $category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->cat_name;

    returns the name of the category in brackets (0/1/2/3…).

    Why it doesn’t work in EM? the_category () works and get_the_category() – doesn’t.

    Plugin Support angelo_nwl

    (@angelo_nwl)

    I think the best snippet you can check to loop events categories is under events-manager/templates/placeholders/categories.php

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