Displaying information about events whose registration is not yet open

[Judy Kavanagh]

I have customized the display of our workshops by indicating how many spots are left in a class. I put this in my single-event.php.

<?php
$now = new DateTime( ‘now’, eo_get_blog_timezone() );
if (( eo_get_the_start( DATETIMEOBJ) ) > $now ) {
if( (has_term( ‘Spinning’, ‘event-category’ )) or (has_term(‘Weaving’, ‘event-category’)) or (has_term( ‘Basketry’, ‘event-category’ )) or (has_term(‘Dyeing and Colour’, ‘event-category’) or (has_term(‘Felting’, ‘event-category’)) or (has_term( ‘Fibre Preparation’, ‘event-category’ )))){
//This event is a workshop. Show how many tickets remain
$remaining = eo_get_remaining_tickets_count( get_the_ID() );
if( $remaining > 1 ){
printf( ‘

There are %d spots remaining in this workshop

‘, $remaining);
}elseif( $remaining == 1 ){
echo ‘

Only one spot remaining!

‘;
}elseif( $remaining == 0){
echo ‘

Sorry, this workshop is full. Get on a waiting list.

‘;
}
}
}
?>

However, for events whose registration period is not yet open it still “Sorry, this workshop is full…”

After poking around in the codex and tutorials I still can’t figure out how to ask an event if registration is open. Can you direct me to the right code?

And a question about this code. I pinched some of it from elsewhere. Why use printf for one line and echo for another?

Thanks

[Stephen Harris]

I tend to use printf when I need to escape values and echo if it’s a hard-coded string.

As for why the above codes does not work for events which don’t have tickets yet, is because eo_get_remaining_tickets_count() only counts tickets which are currently on sale.

What you could do is, in you single-event.php is:

$tickets = eo_get_event_tickets_on_sale( get_the_ID() );

If $tickets is empty then the event has not started yet (or has passed).

[Judy Kavanagh]

Thanks Stephen. That works perfectly.

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