Bracket Syntax Always Breaks Template?

[Brent Barkley]

I’m using the documenation verbatim (http://codex.wp-event-organiser.com/function-eo_get_the_occurrences_of.html).

Is there something special about using the bracket syntax that I need to do or take note of? If I take out the lines with brackets, my templates restore. If I leave them in, the page doesn’t render past, as if it doesn’t know what to do with the bracketed code. For example:

      $occurrences = eo_get_the_occurrences_of( $post_id );
      foreach( $occurrences as $occurrence) {
              $start = eo_format_datetime( $occurrence['start'] , 'jS F ga' );
                 echo $start;
      endforeach;

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Brent,

You’ve opened the foreach loop with a bracket so must be closed with one. So you can do:

foreach( $array as $element ){

}

or

foreach( $array as $element ):

endforeach;

Which you should use is largely down to personal preference and what you think makes the code easier to read. General consensus seems to be that brackets are better.

[Brent Barkley]

Sorry Stephen, I typed that out quickly just to give you an example. In my real life example, my foreach() syntax is correct 🙂 The foreach loop works fine when I take the bracketed code out. Through trial and error I figured out that it’s definitely choking on the [‘start’] bit.

• This reply was modified 11 years, 2 months ago by  Brent Barkley.

[Stephen Harris]

Ah in that case. It sounds like eo_get_the_occurrences_of( $post_id ) is returning false. This could be because the passed $post_id isn’t set, or is not an evet What does the following tell you:

var_dump( $post_id ); //Is this set?
var_dump( get_post_type( $post_id ) ); //is it an event//
var_dump( eo_get_the_occurrences_of( $post_id ) ); //What are its occurrences?

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