Description formatting

[Luca Ossolengo]

Hi,

the description of the event taken from google calendar loses the text formatting, the sentences are broken up and spread over different lines than the original version, is there any solution?

tks
Luca

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Luca,

Are you able to provide the iCal feed url? If you don’t wish to make it public, feel free to use the contact form.

[Luca Ossolengo]

Hi Stephen, tks for answer!!

Here you are the iCaL FEED URL:
https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/kq46suka70jhg07hq0b3seceg85600t4%40import.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Luca

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Luca,

I see what you mean about the styling, but I’m afraid Google isn’t providing that. Looking at the iCal feed, one event for example, has the description:

\n\n♥♥♥ VENERDI 21/02/2014 ♥♥♥\n\n♥♥♥ CELEBRITA' DISCO ♥♥♥\n\n&
 \n\n♥♥♥ PURA VIDA STAFF ♥♥♥\n\nPresentano:\n\n♥♥♥ SATOSHI TOMIIE ♥♥♥\n\nSat
 oshi Tomiie (Tokyo\, 22 novembre 1966) è un dj e  produttore discografico g
 iapponese.\nNel 1989 incise un brano di nome Tears. Il brano\, ottenuto con
  la collaborazione dei due maestri dell'house David Morales e Frankie Knuck
 les\, lo fece arrivare in brevissimo tempo alle vette delle classifiche del
 l'house music di tutto il mondo.\nSatoshi Tomiie cominciò la sua carriera p
 er caso\, quando una casa cosmetica lo incaricò di comporre un brano per il
  tour promozionale\, offrendogli la possibilità di lavorare con l'allora gi
 à famoso Frankie Knuckles. Il DJ\, già esperto nel campo\, decise così di i
 ngaggiarlo per comporre con lui un pezzo house\; fu proprio così che uscì f
 uori il brano Tears\, che segnò una svolta nell'house music mondiale. Raggi
 unto il successo\, Satoshi Tomiie continuò (e continua ancora oggi) la sua 
 carriera riscontrando grandi successi e qualificandosi ai primi posti nella
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 utta la notte\, solo con ★★ 5 € ★★\n\n\n►►► PROGRAMMA SERATA :\n\n► Start H
 . 23.00\n\n\n\nspecial guest\n\n★★ SATOSHIE TOMIIE★★\n\n\nresident djs\n\n\
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 2 drink\n\n►ingresso UOMO 15€ con 1 drink oppure 18€ 2 drink\n\n\n\n\n\n♥♥♥
  La Lista rimarrà attiva fino alle ore 01.00 ♥♥♥\n\n\n♥♥♥ SELEZIONE ALL'ING
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 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

ignoring the truncated lines (which is intentional line folding as per the iCal specification, and automatically corrected), as you can see the content of the event is just text with no styling.

iCal feeds, don’t (in general) contain HTML. According to the specifications, descriptions shouldn’t contain HTML. However, some feeds sometimes provide an ‘alternative representation’ which does contain HTML. If the plug-in recognises that, it uses the HTML representation. However, Google feeds do not appear to do this unfortunately.

[Brent Peak]

Is it possible to remove the description altogether? The ical feed I’m using sends info I don’t need in the description, so I would like to just leave it all out if possible.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Brent,

Yes there are two ways of doing this. The first is to remove the content from the data that is parsed (via the eventorganiser_ical_feed_parsed hook). Please note that this runs for manually imported (i.e. uploaded) feeds as well.

 function my_remove_event_content_from_feed( $ical_parser ){
      if( $ical_parser->events_parsed ){
          foreach( $ical_parser->events_parsed  as $index => $event ){
              $this->events_parsed[$index]['post_content'] = '';
          }
      }
 }
add_action( 'eventorganiser_ical_feed_parsed', 'my_remove_event_content_from_feed' );

(See http://codex.wp-event-organiser.com/hook-eventorganiser_ical_feed_parsed.html for details).

Alternatively there are the eventorganiser_ical_sync_event_inserted and eventorganiser_ical_sync_event_updated actions that run after an event has been created/inserted from an iCal feed. These do not run when manually uploading a feed. A callback attached to these hooks would allow you to update the created/updated event to remove the content.

[Brent Peak]

Thanks for the quick response!

I’m afraid I’m completely lost. Do I just paste the code you provided into the editor somewhere?

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Brent,

Ideally it should go in a ‘utility plug-in’. But it will also work if you paste it into your functions.php tag. Just make sure it’s inside <?php ... ?> tags. (More details can be found here: http://wp-event-organiser.com/blog/tutorial/where-should-i-put-code-from-the-tutorials/).

[Brent Peak]

I made a utility plug in and uploaded it. I get a parse error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’ in /home/content/p3nexnas05_data02/24/2102924/html/wp-content/plugins/site-utility.php_/site-utility.php on line 11

Here’s is the file I uploaded:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Your Site’s Functionality Plugin
Description: All of the important functionality of your site belongs in this.
Version: 0.1
License: GPL
Author: Your Name
Author URI: yoururl
*/
function my_remove_event_content_from_feed( $ical_parser ){
if( $ical_parser->events_parsed ){
foreach( $ical_parser->events_parsed as $index => $event ){
$this->events_parsed[$index][‘post_content’] = ”;
}
}
}
add_action( ‘eventorganiser_ical_feed_parsed’, ‘my_remove_event_content_from_feed’ );
?>

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Brent,

Copying and pasting that code, I don’t get any error. Which line is line 11 in your editor?

[Brent Peak]

This is line 11:

  if( $ical_parser->events_parsed ){

[Stephen Harris]

Mmm… there is no &. You may want to double check the file.

If you’re still not able to resolve that, get in touch via this form or e-mail, with FTP details and I can take a look for you, if you’d like.

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