Can I disable the End Time feature

[nickverde]

Hi Stephen,
I’m currently setting up EO for a bar to list the bands that play there. The music starts at 9:30pm and ends at 2am. If I list the end time as 2am on the next day, the event is listed on the calendar as starting on the second day. I don’t want that to happen, and I would be fine with not listing an end time at all. Is that possible? And, if it is possible, can some events include end times, and some not?
Thanks,
Nick

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Nick,

Events must have an end time unfortunately. But you can suppress this, for instance, using custom fields. E.g. create a custom field with key suppress_end_time and value 1, and in the templates wherever you want to suppress the end time:

if( get_post_meta( $post_id, 'suppress_end_time', true ) ){
    //Do not display end time
}else{
    //Display end time
}

(assuming that for some events you will want to display when it finishes).

The calendar is a bit subtler – you can use this filter: eventorganiser_fullcalendar_event – which filters an event array before its added to the calendar. For events you wish to suppress the end-time, simply change the ‘end’ key to midnight that day:

(Completely untested…)

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_fullcalendar_event', 'my_custom_callback', 10, 3 );
function my_custom_callback( $event, $post_id, $occurrence_id ){
    if( get_post_meta( $post_id, 'suppress_end_time', true ) ){
        //Suppressing end-time, set it to just before midnight of the start date
        $end = eo_get_the_start( DATETIMEOBJ, post_id, $occurrence_id );
        $end->setTime( 23, 59, 59 ); //Set to just before midnight
        $event['end'] = $end->format('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z');
    }
    return $event;
}

Note: The calendar is cached, so the filter’s change won’t take immediate effect. To clear the cache simply ‘update’ an event.

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