Displaying Events created by a user

[Lukas Feddern]

Is it possible to display the events created by a user using the events list shorcode? I would like to display on someones buddypress profile the events they have created for others to view.

Thanks

[Lukas Feddern]

like would it be possible to do something like this

add something like this to functions.php:

function custom_shortcode() {

$user_id = get_the_author_meta( 'ID' );
echo get_events_created_by_user( $user_id );

}
add_shortcode( ‘eo_custom_shortcode’, ‘custom_shortcode’ );

then use [ep_custom_shortcode] on the buddypress profile?

but is there a function like get_events_created_by_user() for event organiser.

BTW i have very limited knowledge of php at the moment – just learning… Any help would really be appreciated as EO does everything I need apart from this!

[Lukas Feddern]

If this isn’t possible would it be possbile to achieve a similar result by doing an automatic search by the user name (the main page title on account name) and then displaying the results?

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Lukas,

If you wanted a list of events owned by a user, you could use:

[eo_events author=<id of user>]

So you could create a custom shortcode which invokes that one, and sets the ID. Or you could use eo_get_events(), with 'author'=>$user_id (see codex for examples of this function: codex.wp-event-organiser.com/function-eo_get_events.html ). I’m assuming here that $user_id is the ID of the desired user.

If you wanted events submitted by a user then you would need to use eo_get_events() to get an array of events, and then generate your own HTML output:

$events = eo_get_events( array(
     'meta_query' => array(
          array(
                'key' => '_eventorganiser_fes_user',
                'value' => $user_id,
          ),
     ),

) );

Again, assuming $user_id is the ID of the desired user.

[Lukas Feddern]

Hey Stephen,

Thanks for your reply, just a couple of questions. Surely an event submitted by a user would be owned by a user?
What is the difference?

Also if I want to use the second method could I be annoying and ask for a little bit more guidance. What would I need to include in the functions.php file and what would I need to include in the relevant template to display a table of submitted events?

thanks

[Lukas Feddern]

So assuming that a user “owns” on event by submitting them.
Would a way of creating a custom shortcode that could be used in the
template for buddypress profile of the user who submitted the event (using do_shortcode()) be:

function custom_shortcode(){

‘author’=> $user_id;
eo_get_events($user_id)
}
add_shortcode( ‘eo_custom_shortcode’, ‘custom_shortcode’ );

or would I have to use $user_id = get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ); to get the ID of the creator of the
buddypress profile. Or have I got this wrong completely!!

Any help appreciated, thanks.

[Lukas Feddern]

Or would it be:

function custom_shortcode()
{
$user_id = get_the_author_meta (‘ID’)

do_shortcode(‘[eo_events author=<$user_id>]’)
}

add_shortcode( ‘eo_custom_shortcode’, ‘custom_shortcode’ );

*to be clear I want to display the events being organised by the buddypress user (these will be submitted by the user using forms)

[Stephen Harris]

To clarify the owner or organiser of the event is not necessarily the person who submits it (though typically is). Indeed the plug-in settings allow you to assign submitted events to a particular user (if not the submitter), or at any time you can edit the organiser of an event.

So the following would work:

function custom_shortcode(){
     $user_id = get_the_author_meta( 'ID' );
     do_shortcode( '[eo_events author='.$user_id.']' );
}
add_shortcode( 'eo_custom_shortcode', 'custom_shortcode' );

I’m assuming here that

$user_id = get_the_author_meta( 'ID' );

retrieves the ID of the user whose profile is being rendered. I don’t know this, and you would have to check with the BuddyPress developers.

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