displaying dates as 1-2 nov 2015

[Frank Dandenell]

Hi, I thought I mastered the art of displaying dates as “1-2 november 2015”. The shortcode below does this. But when I have a 1-day event it displays “1-1 november 2015” Please help me a find a way out of this. This is just a simple list of all upcoming events.

[eo_events]<strong><a href="%event_url%">%event_title%</a></strong> %start{j}%-%end{j}% %start{M}% %end{Y}% <a href="%event_url%">Läs mer och boka här.</a>
[/eo_events]

//Frank

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Frank,

Unfortunately adapting the date format according to the start/end format is not possible using the placeholders. You’d need to replace the above with just [eo_events] and then edit the event list shortcode template (you can find it in event-organiser/templates/event-list-shortcode.php.

You can then format the date accordingly:

 $start_format = 'j M Y';
 $end_format = false;

 if ( eo_get_the_start( 'Ymd' ) != eo_get_the_start( 'Ymd' ) ) {
      //Event starts and ends on different dates
      $start_format = 'j';
      $start_format = '- j M Y';
 }

//Print start date
eo_the_start( $start_format );

if ( $end_format ) {
    //If end date is different from start date, print end date.
    eo_the_end( $end_format );
} 

You could do further checks in case the event spans across a month or year, but I’ll leave you to make those adjustments.

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