Event search drop down dates

[Tim Passarella]

I was hoping that you could lead me in the right direction to have the “select dates” field on the event search page have a drop down menu with the dates already populated.( Ie. you choose between jan1, jan2, jan3…. ect.) instead of the calendar.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Tim,

Apologies this hasn’t been answered sooner. Unfortunately it’s not possible to do this (at least not without editing event-organiser-pro/includes/shortcodes.php. ( Also, wouldn’t a select with [month]-[day] land you with a select menu with 365 options? – or perhaps I’ve misunderstood what you’re asking :/ )

[Tim Passarella]

Hey Stephen,

Thanks for the response. You are correct in that there would be 365 options but i was hoping they could be filtered to only include days with events. Basically I have a 2 week event that has multiple venues and multiple events. I just want the events search page to show dates against the query instead of the calendar.

[Stephen Harris]

I see. This isn’t possible without editing the core plug-in (unless you create your own shortcode which does something similiar to the event search shortcode but replaces the datepickers with a drop-down select).

Getting all dates with an event on them isn’t trivial either (unless all events are just one-day events). But the idea is that you can pull all future occurrences, and each occurrence gives you a date range (start to end of that occurrences). By ‘overlaying’ those ranges you’ll get a set of dates on which an event occurs.

$events = eo_get_events( array(
    'event_start_after' => 'now',
) );
$dates_array = array();
if( $events ){
    foreach( $events as $event ){
        //Start & end date
        $start = eo_get_the_start( DATETIMEOBJ, $event->ID, null, $event->occurrence_id );
        $end = eo_get_the_end( DATETIMEOBJ, $event->ID, null, $event->occurrence_id );

        $pointer = clone $start;

        while( $pointer <= $end ){
             $dates_array[$pointer->format( 'Y-m-d' )] = true; //Add date as array key
             $pointer->modify( '+1 day' );
        }
    }
}

//Array of dates, in chronological order with events occurring on them.
$dates = sort( array_keys($dates_array) );

Of course the format ‘Y-m-d’ is used because its unambiguous and readily sorted. For output you could used eo_formate_date().

If you want just a range of dates which encompasses all events (regardless of ‘gaps’ with no events) – it’s a little easier: just get the start date of the next event and the last date of the last event.

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