Need event date and time in the RSS feed or the Events post type

Howdy tjb1013,

It sounds to me like you would be interested in our API for selecting events. Using this function you can select events just for today, and optionally view their start/end times if needed. Of course some programming is required.

https://tri.be/support/documentation/the-events-calendar-template-tags-general-functions/#functiontribe_get_events
https://docs.tri.be/Events-Calendar/function-tribe_get_events.html

I hope you get that working. It sounds like a cool idea. Cheers!

– Brook

Thanks! I tried the code modified to get only today, only today and tomorrow, and then left it ‘as-is’ in the example (set for 30 days ahead), and it was getting all the events upcoming.

In other words, setting the ‘end_date’ option did not seem to affect the query.

Howdy tjb1013,

I am the first to admit that our documentation here is a bit weak. I am going to write a better tutorial soon. There are some oddities about the function that need better explaining. In order to use this function at all, it sometimes requires a good knowledge of both PHP and a fair bit of experimenting.

This snippet I wrote a while back was for simple date selections like yours, and when I wrote it I found it worked quite well. Hopefully this example code will help get you going. If it does not, keep experimenting. Hopefully you can find a combo that works:
https://pastebin.com/fXNyTthe

Cheers!

– Brook

Brook, no go on the code example. Nothing in the array in the tribe_get_events function call. I did change the dates to dates that I had events scheduled.

Ahh! I bet that is because of one of the undocumented oddities. That function loves to return no results if not run within select actions. Don’t ask me why. Really want to improve it soon. Fortunately this does not tend to impact real world usage, only testing in my experience.

Try this fuller snippet of code instead. I bet it will return an actual array:

add_filter('wp_head', 'cust_func');

function cust_func () {
	$start_date = date('j M Y', strtotime('2014-01-01'));
	$end_date = date('j M Y', strtotime('2015-01-01'));

	$get_events = tribe_get_events(array(
		'start_date' => tribe_event_beginning_of_day($start_date),
		'end_date' => tribe_event_end_of_day($end_date),
		'posts_per_page'=> -1 // No limit
	));

	var_dump($get_events); exit;
}

To be honest, it is our policy to only provide bug fixes and very generic advice on the free forums. People in need of more specific advice should seriously consider a PRO license for the 24/7 detailed support. I don’t like to try and sell to people or anything on this support forum, but I do want you to be aware of that option in case you are looking for some more hands on assistance.

– Brook