Can't get sale-end datetime

[Michael Docker]

Following the instructions given in a previous discussion, I’m trying to find the end date of the sale period for a ticket using eo_get_event_tickets().

A var_dump of $ticket gives…

array(1) { 
    [719890]=> object(EO_Event_Ticket_Type)#7351 (4) { 
        ["price":"EO_Event_Ticket_Type":private]=> object(EO_Money)#7358 (2) { 
            ["amount_in_fractional_unit":"EO_Money":private]=> float(1320) 
            ["currency":"EO_Money":private]=> object(EO_Currency)#7352 (4) { 
                ["name":"EO_Currency":private]=> string(20) "GBP - British Pounds" 
                ["symbol":"EO_Currency":private]=> string(2) "£" 
                ["fractional_units_in_standard":"EO_Currency":private]=> int(100) 
                ["iso_code"]=> string(3) "GBP" 
            } 
        } 
        ["mid"]=> int(719890) 
        ["period"]=> object(EO_Date_Range)#7356 (2) { 
            ["from":"EO_Date_Range":private]=> NULL 
            ["until":"EO_Date_Range":private]=> object(DateTime)#7357 (3) { 
                ["date"]=> string(26) "2021-07-31 23:59:00.000000" 
                ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(13) "Europe/London" 
            } 
        } 
        ["storage":"ArrayObject":private]=> array(8) { 
            ["mid"]=> int(719890) 
            ["name"]=> string(14) "Hannah Peschar" 
            ["spaces"]=> int(30) 
            ["price"]=> float(13.2) 
            ["order"]=> int(0) 
            ["from"]=> bool(false) 
            ["to"]=> object(DateTime)#7357 (3) { 
                ["date"]=> string(26) "2021-07-31 23:59:00.000000" 
                ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) 
                ["timezone"]=> string(13) "Europe/London" 
            } 
            ["occurrence_ids"]=> array(1) { 
                [0]=> int(1507) 
            } 
        } 
    } 
}

… but $ticket[‘to’] comes up empty, and so does $ticket[‘name’].

Here’s the code I’m using:

$occurrences = eo_get_the_occurrences_of();
if ( count($occurrences) === 1 ) {
    $ticket = eo_get_event_tickets( get_the_ID(), (int) eo_get_the_occurrence_id() );
//    echo var_dump($ticket);
    echo 'ticket-name = "'.$ticket['name'].'"';
    echo 'ticket-to = "'.$ticket['to'].'"';
}

I’ve also tried $ticket[‘storage’][‘name’] but can’t get any result. Please, where am I going wrong?

[Stephen Harris]

There is a function $ticket->on_sale_until() which will return null or DateTime object.

So the following should work:

$sale_end = $ticket->on_sale_until();
if ($sale_end) {
  echo $sale_end->format('jS F Y');
}

[Michael Docker]

Thanks Stephen.

When I use your $sale_end code I get the following:

“Error thrown

Call to a member function on_sale_until() on array”

A similar error message greets the is_currently_on_sale( ) function

I am using a new ‘test event’ with sale dates between 15 Aug 2021 and 21 Jun 2022

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Michael,

What version are you running? eo_get_event_tickets() should return an array of EO_Event_Ticket_Type, not an array of arrays.

[Michael Docker]

I’m using EO v3.10.7 and Pro v3.2.0.

I get an array of arrays, as above, with the following code:

$ticket = eo_get_event_tickets();
echo var_dump($ticket);

[Stephen Harris]

Ah, ok. I’ve just realised what’s happening. In your code above $ticket is not a single ticket, its an array of the events tickets. Either you can iterate over it or if you’re expecting only one you can ‘pop’ it.

$tickets = eo_get_event_tickets();
$ticket = array_pop($tickets);
$sale_end = $ticket->on_sale_until();
if ($sale_end) {
  echo $sale_end->format('jS F Y');
}

[Michael Docker]

Thanks Stephen, that’s cracked it. Just the ticket!

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