Event search filter displaying no events until searched

[Jason Crowell]

Hey. Thanks for taking the time to develop this plugin. Has been very helpful and forcing me to look deeper into what I am doing. When I use the following code: [event_search filters=”event_category,event_venue,date”]

It provides a search function that can be filtered via attributes. When the page is first loaded it displays all of the events until a search is undertaken. Is there a way to have it so that the event area displays no events until a category or attribute is selected ??

Thanks,
Jason

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Jason,

You’re welcome 🙂 Yes you can, see this post: http://wp-event-organiser.com/forums/topic/search-form/

[Jason Crowell]

Yes thank you I managed to sort it out from that post before. Is there any way that it the filter can be already on a selected category.

[event_search filters=”event_category,event_venue,date”] Manipulate this code somehow to have it set to display events from a chosen category. The reason being is because I have set up different pages for the different event categories. In having the Tourism events as a category, it would be good if the tourism events are already open below the search bar. I have made it so there is nothing open until the user searches but I thought I would see if it was possible this way.

Thanks again,
Jason

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Jason,

You can, but not as easily as simply editing the templates. The query for events, and the mark-up for the filter/search input is all done in the shortcode handler (see includes/shortcodes.php). But you can replace that handler with the following:

add_shortcode( 'event_search' , 'my_replacement_handler' );
function my_replacement_handler(){
  //Define you're replacement handler
}

Note: the file in which you use that code must be included after the original handler is declared (its a case of ‘last one wins’). functions.php should be fine. If its in a plug-in you’ll probably want to include the above on plugins_loaded or init hook.

The original handler is _eventorganiser_event_search_shortcode_handler(), so you’ll want to copy and modify the contents of that function.

At the top is the following:

 $input = isset( $_REQUEST['eo_search'] ) ? $_REQUEST['eo_search'] : array();

If $input is empty you could just set the appropriate arguments to the default query. To give you an idea of what $input should look like:

$input = array(
    's' => '',//search term
    'event-category' => '',//event category slug
    'event-venue' => '',//event venue slug
    'event-venue' => '',//event venue slug
    'venue_query' => array(
         array(
            'key' =>'_city'
            'value' => '', //venue city
         ),
         array(
            'key' =>'_state'
            'value' => '', //venue state
         ),
         array(
            'key' =>'_country'
            'value' => '', //venue country
         ),
    ),
    'event_start_after' => '',//date / relative date
    'event_start_before' => '',//date / relative date
);

(Although you could just edit the plug-in files, I don’t recommend this: when you update your changes will be lost).

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