Can't get start date outside of loop

[Gabriel David]

I’m trying to use eo_the_start/eo_get_the_start (I have tried both) and can’t get either to work. This is in functions.php

I have tried

eo_the_start($date_format, $eid), eo_the_start($date_format, $eid,null,0), and eo_the_start($date_format, $eid, null) in both the_start and get_the_start variations (ideally leaning towards get_the since I’m trying to place it in a variable and echo that later), neither with any results.

Please help 🙁

$eid for sure has the right variable, and I have even hard coded the number and it works. Interestingly enough I have even tried useing eo_the_start($date_format, $eid) in event-meta-event-single.php (as both the_start and get_the_start) and it works! I’m getting $eid from a GET parameter and it’s working for other functions that use it, I have even tried casting it to (int) with no luck.

Halp 🙁

[Gabriel David]

P.S. the event is not reoccuring

• This reply was modified 9 years, 12 months ago by  Gabriel David. Reason: typo

[Gabriel David]

P.P.S same is true for the_end

[Gabriel David]

Not sure if I answered my own question or not, it seems a bit weird to have an occurrence ID actually set to anything other than 0 given an event is not reoccuring, but the following code gave me the start and end date correctly:

$occurrences = eo_get_the_occurrences_of( $eid );
reset($occurrences);
$first_key = key($occurrences);
$start = eo_get_the_start('m/d/Y',$eid,null,$first_key);
$end = eo_get_the_end('m/d/Y',$eid,null,$first_key);

Where $eid is the event id

• This reply was modified 9 years, 12 months ago by  Gabriel David.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 12 months ago by  Gabriel David.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Gabriel,

You can use eo_get_schedule_start(), this works for recurring events and returns the first start date of the event. Otherwise, the method you use above should work fine.

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