Geoff Wass

Marcus,

Sorry! I wasn’t meaning to rush you or anything. I’m just glad you were able to see the same thing I was. I will leave this issue “as is” for now.

Marcus,

That’s great to hear. At now I know it wasn’t just me! May I ask the nature of the bug?

Should I mark this issue as “resolved”?

Marcus,

Well it could be a Javascript error, but I don’t think those five browsers are sharing the same Javascript engine.

When I change to Single Ticket mode = no, the interface changes but the data seems to stick. And… [play theme from The Twilight Zone]… if you edit the earlier events, the dates are displayed! So the data has never been lost, but simply not redisplayed after recording the event.

This makes me think that difference in CSS coding between the Event Dates and the Available From/To Dates I noted earlier may be a factor or at least a clue.

Marcus,

OK, previously I had tested on Opera and IE. I have now tested in FireFox, Safari and Chrome (all latest versions for WinXP). All produced the same result: the date of the event was still visible after saving the event, but the “Available From” and “To” dates disappeared.

On my local PC, using Opera, I disabled every plug-in except The Events Manager and changed the theme to the WordPress 2011 one. The same thing happened when I added a new event.

uacstudios,

Thank-you for your message. You know more about this stuff than I do. I placed your snippet of code into mailz.php and got this when I tried to activate the plug-in on my local PC:

Warning: HTTP Error:22/The requested URL returned error: 400 at https://localhost:28860/wp-content/plugins/mailz/lists/admin/index.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s=&page=initialise&firstintall=1&wpdb=DiNuovo2&wpf=wp_&wph=localhost&wpu=wordpressuser&wpp=MySQL123%21&wppageid=&wpsiteurl=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A28860 in C:\Documents and Settings\Work\My Documents\My Web Sites\DiNuovo2\wp-content\plugins\mailz\classes\http.class.php on line 186
 Could not create phpList database tables

I have a feeling this is the same issue as you described. I am sure it will be useful to Zingiri.

Thank-you again for sharing this.

Marcus,

It happens in Opera and IE 8. It happens on the hosted site and my local PC. After playing around with settings, I think it is important to tell you that Single Ticket Mode = Yes. We may not be talking about exactly the same thing up to now if you have that set to No.

Marcus,

I would lean towards it being something to do with the server (PHP?). I had most plug-ins disabled, but I don’t recall whether I tested with and without the Gantry framework plug-in disabled, so that remains a possibility.

Marcus,

Would Opera Dragonfly be able to show you the same information?

I think I have miscommunicated the problem. The date pickers work. After selecting the “Available From” and “to” dates with the pickers, the dates appear correctly. It’s after saving the event that the dates disappear.

One thing I have noticed in Dragonfly is the CSS style tab on the right is slightly different between the date pickers for the event date (which work) and the “Available From/To” ones I have trouble with. In particular, the “Available from/to” date fields have this at the top of the hierarchy:

.em-ticket-form .date-limits input {
width: 100px;
}
which comes from events_manager_admin.css:85

Marcus,

I’m marking this issue as “resolved”, but if you need anything further from me, don’t hesitate to ask.

Marcus,

I have updated to 4.303 and I can confirm the price issue is resolved.

Is there anything I can try in regards to the date issue? What is odd is the Event date works just fine, it’s only the Available From and To dates which are acting up.

Marcus,

I’m probably the only developer there’s going to be. ??

I’m not sure about it being a Javascript error. You may have missed my earlier comment that I tried this in Opera and IE, and both failed. I would think their implementations of Javascript are sufficiently different to rule out that type of error. However, if you can be more specific about what to check and briefly say how, I can try to figure it out.

Actually, leaving the price blank does affect the plug-in, albeit in a very minor way. You cannot save a modification to the event if the price is blank. If you try, you get the error “Please enter a valid ticket price e.g. 10.50 (no currency signs)”.

Since my other thread concerning the leading spaces in the e-mail salutation seems related to PHP, my WAG right now is to point that finger at PHP for this issue.

Marcus,

I’m not sure what you mean by “normal WP mails”.

I changed the “Mail sending method” from “PHP mail function” to “SMTP” and now the leading spaces are gone and the e-mail salutation looks fine. I double-checked by changing back to “PHP mail function” and the leading spaces returned. So I have a solution and you have an explanation.

If there is something more I can tell you to help you identify the problem, feel free to ask. You may need to guide me a bit to it, depending on what you need.

Marcus, many thanks for your time and trouble!

Marcus,

I disabled the Gantry theme and the Gantry plug-in. I activated the WordPress 2011 theme. I created another event and got exactly the same result.

I am wondering if it has to do with the environment: Linux, PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.0 (not sure what else to list).

Agelonwl,

Here are the steps once signed in as administrator:

1. I added a new event for Nov. 25th (entered Event Name, Event Date, Location, Details).
2. Enabled registration for this event.
3. Entered a price of 0 (it’s a free event and leaving it blank seems to cause it to fail validation), spaces 100, available from Oct. 25th (today) to Nov. 24th, must order between 1 and 1 and entered a description.
4. Clicked “Submit Event”. It was accepted, HOWEVER at this point the Available From date and To date are gone.
5. Clicked on “Edit” in the left menu in order to see all events.
6. Clicked on the new event name to edit it. Price is now gone.

WordPress 3.2.1, TEC 4.302, on Win XP using Opera 11.52.

I repeated the above steps on IE 8. The results were the same.

Marcus,

Do I win a prize? ??

You are dealing with a novice here. I have the PHP debug logging turned on (unless there is more than one kind) and this is all it shows for tonight (I’m in Canada’s Eastern time zone and the timestamps on the logs appear to be 4 hours ahead of me). The last three lines appear to be generated when I created my event using IE:

[26-Oct-2011 00:34:31] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: instance_params in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/html/layouts/chrome_basic.php on line 39
[26-Oct-2011 00:34:31] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantry.class.php on line 855
[26-Oct-2011 00:34:31] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: strHtml in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantry.class.php on line 836
[26-Oct-2011 00:38:40] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835
[26-Oct-2011 00:39:29] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835
[26-Oct-2011 00:51:01] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835
[26-Oct-2011 00:52:53] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: instance_params in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/html/layouts/chrome_basic.php on line 39
[26-Oct-2011 00:52:53] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantry.class.php on line 855
[26-Oct-2011 00:52:53] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: strHtml in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantry.class.php on line 836
[26-Oct-2011 00:52:59] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: instance_params in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/html/layouts/chrome_basic.php on line 39
[26-Oct-2011 00:52:59] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantry.class.php on line 855
[26-Oct-2011 00:52:59] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: strHtml in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantry.class.php on line 836
[26-Oct-2011 00:54:17] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835
[26-Oct-2011 00:54:25] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835
[26-Oct-2011 00:57:14] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: instance_params in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/html/layouts/chrome_basic.php on line 39
[26-Oct-2011 00:57:14] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantry.class.php on line 855
[26-Oct-2011 00:57:14] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: strHtml in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantry.class.php on line 836
[26-Oct-2011 00:57:48] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835
[26-Oct-2011 01:02:20] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835
[26-Oct-2011 01:02:51] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835
[26-Oct-2011 01:02:55] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/40/8512740/html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 1835

The date picker does pop up.

Many thanks for your interest in this.

Marcus,

Many thanks for the quick reply. I looked at the other post you mentiond and saw your comment “emails reminders aren’t implemented (again, yet), but a good developer should be able to program something like that by setting up a wp cron job.” I have a feeling I will be waiting for the feature as finding the time for the basics is already a challenge as this is not my day job. C’est la vie!

In any case, thank-you again for your help.