Using ACF / PHP in templates

You can’t directly use PHP in the templates. However, interestingly, you can create your own placeholders. Let’s say you want to create a placeholder called #_EVENTURL and the value was stored as an ACF called ‘eventurl’. Then you would add the following code snippet to create the #_EVENTURL placeholder:

add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder','my_em_output_placeholders',1,3);
function my_em_output_placeholders($replace, $EM_Event, $result){
    if( preg_match( '/#_EVENTURL.*/', $result ) ) {
        $url = get_field('eventurl', $EM_Event->post_id);
        if ( empty( $url ) ) {
            $replace = $url;
        }
    }
    return $replace;
}

You could then add #_EVENTURL to the template.

You could use the Code Snippets plugin to add the code snippet.

You can handle create multiple placeholders in the code snippet. For example:

add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder','my_em_output_placeholders',1,3);
function my_em_output_placeholders($replace, $EM_Event, $result){
    if( preg_match( '/#_FIELD1.*/', $result ) ) {
        $url = get_field('field1', $EM_Event->post_id);
        if ( empty( $url ) ) {
            $replace = $url;
        }
    }
    else if( preg_match( '/#_FIELD2.*/', $result ) ) {
        $url = get_field('field2', $EM_Event->post_id);
        if ( empty( $url ) ) {
            $replace = $url;
        }
    }
    return $replace;
}

Here’s the documentation on the em_event_output_placeholder filter: https://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/create-a-custom-placeholder-for-event-formatting/

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by joneiseman.

Correction, you can use php within event_list_item_format.php. You just need to surround it in <?php … ?> html tags liike this:

<?php echo esc_html_e('More Info', 'events-manager'); ?>

Perfect, thank you! Using em_event_output_placeholder did exactly what I wanted. Thanks!