bigmitch

That’s what I thought. There’s nothing to hook into or classes to extend in a separate plugin?

Thanks for the reply so quick. I though everything was correct… the client has just done a 180 and decided they no longer want a lightbox. It was most likely a conflict with one of the other plugins.

I’m not sure how I would use the conditionals to show single day events form category #2 and the first occurence from the recurring events (like the ‘recurring’=>1 function).

I can get each group separately but can’t figure out how to merge them. I tried array_merge, but just got errors saying Argument #1 and #2 are not arrays.

I was trying to use:

$recurrers = em_get_events ( array('limit'=>0,'recurring'=>1,'scope'=>'customfuture') );
$specials = em_get_events ( array('limit'=>0,'category' =>2,'scope'=>'customfuture') );
$merged_query_args = array_merge( $recurrers, $specials );
$merged_query = new WP_Query( $merged_query_args );

then move on to the loop and sort by event_start_date, style, etc.

I looked at that but didn’t see a way to get it to work for what I want.

That doesn’t work as the single day movies (which also have category #2 assigned to them) are not recurring events.

Setting ‘recurring’=>1 only shows recurring events (the first instance of) but no single day events. Adding the 2 doesn’t pull from the category, I think its a yes or no setting.

I looked at that template and wasn’t sure where to add code to tie in the AJAX. The code I came up with gets the links outputted right but they don’t jive with the AJAX to pull in the new content.

As Peter Griffin would say… Freakin’ Sweet!. Thanks, that seems to work.

Yes, after the event info is entered in Filemaker, it shows up as a post in WP. All event details (dates, prices, instructors, etc.) show up under the post in Flutter write panels. The Beginning Date field name is ‘class-begdate’.

I did get into the WP DB, and found this for something that was just added, it looks like it actually is storing the date as YYYY-MM-DD:
INSERT INTO accr_postmeta VALUES (68130, 3362, ‘class_begdate’, ‘2012-01-22’);

So maybe it can be what you posted earlier but use ‘class_begdate’ as the meta_key?

Sorry, but how do I find that info?

The Filemaker DB writes the entry’s data to the WP DB. After that, when you go into the WP dashboard, the entry is present as a post.

The post’s title, body copy, catagories and meta (begin/end dates (in MM-DD-YYYY format), prices, times, instructors, etc.) all come from Filemaker. The meta populates Flutter write panels.

The two variables I’d need to compare are (in addition to the posts_per_page, etc.):
(1) today’s date
(2) entry’s beginning date (which would come from the entry’s meta, just redefined to match today’s date format).

So it would be comparing two variables -or- “assigning” the entry’s beginning date variable as the ‘meta_key’ to compare against today’s date (‘meta_value’).

I’m still having a problem as $begtime is not meta from the post, its a defined variable… All posts are originally entered into a Filemaker DB which then writes to the WordPress DB. The date meta in the WP DB is in j-m-Y format, not good for comparing. $begtime just redefines the date meta into Y-m-d format, so it can be used for comparison.

So how would I compare the two variables (also keeping the posts_per_page, etc.)? Or can a variable be used in ‘meta_key’?