Get Venue by Meta Query returning empty array

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  • #43827

    Currently trying to check and see if a venue coming from an API exists in EO based on its address/city/state. For testing purposes, I have removed the API calls and am just testing with hardcoded strings that are known to be in the database:

    $venue_query = array(
        array(
            'key' => '_state',
            'value' => 'NY'
        )
    );
    $args = array(
        'meta_query' => $venue_query,
    );
    $o .= var_export($args, true);
    $eoVenues = eo_get_venues($args);
    $o .= var_export($eoVenues, true);
    return $o;
    

    This code is run as part of a shortcode, and the output is:

    array ( 'meta_query' => array ( 0 => array ( 'key' => '_state', 'value' => 'NY', ), ), )
    array ( )
    

    The first line of the output shows the query variables being passed into eo_get_venues(), and the second line shows that eo_get_venues() is returning an empty array. I have two venues that appear in the admin list which have states of NY, and two entries in the wp_eo_venuemeta table where key equals _city and value equals NY. When I remove the meta query, all venues are returned as expected.

    WordPress version 6.5.2

    Event Organiser version 3.12.5

    PHP version 8.1

    Let me know if there’s any other information I can provide that would be useful to help debug this

    Beth Moeller
    #43828

    Digging into this a bit more, the Debug Bar plugin is showing the following query being executed:

    SELECT DISTINCT t.term_id
    FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_termmeta ON ( t.term_id = wp_termmeta.term_id ) INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id
    WHERE tt.taxonomy IN ('event-venue') AND (
        ( wp_termmeta.meta_key = '_state' AND wp_termmeta.meta_value = 'NY' )
    )
    ORDER BY t.name ASC
    

    This query was generated by WP_Term_Query->get_terms(), which through a few other functions was called by eo_get_venues(). It appears the issue is that the query is checking in wp_termmeta for the venue meta info, and not the wp_eo_venuemeta table.

    Beth Moeller
    #44004

    Hi there,

    I would be interested in a solution for this. I guess this is the reason why seeing events by venue currently doesn’t list the events on the venue pages.

    Philippe Zuber
    #44057

    Beth,

    Apologies for the not responding to this sooner. The plug-in does use (indirectly) WP_Term_Query which will ordinarily use the wp-terms table. However, the plug-in uses the following code to “move” the meta-data query in the request:

    function _eventorganiser_venue_meta_query_fix( $wp_term_query ) {
        $args = $wp_term_query->query_vars;
        if ( !empty($args['taxonomy']) && in_array( 'event-venue', $args['taxonomy'] ) && ! empty( $args['meta_query'] ) ) {
            $args['cache_domain'] .= 'eo_get_venues:'.  md5( serialize( $args['meta_query'] ) );
            $args['eo_venue_meta_query'] = $args['meta_query'];
            unset( $args['meta_query'] );
            $wp_term_query->query_vars = $args;
        }
    }
    add_action( 'parse_term_query', '_eventorganiser_venue_meta_query_fix' );
    

    As you can see it will only do this if:

    • The taxonomy is set
      • The taxonomy contains ‘event-venue’
      • The meta query is set

    That should be the cause when using eo_get_venues() with a meta query, however I suppose there may be another plug-in that is either removing that filter or otherwise changing the values being filtered so that conditional fails.

    Stephen Harris
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