iCal plugin and custom fields

[Niklas Forsberg]

Hi!
I have an ical-feed from an ticketing service that event organiser automatically gets it´s data from. The ticketing service that we are using has added “sales” information to the ical-feed “summary” field. This field also contains the the event heading. The summary field is now showing “EVENT or SHOW NAME” + “Tickets are available or No Tickets are available”.

Now i would replace the textinformation “Tickets are available or No Tickets are available” text with an icon/image. This could be done with css. However the event title is on the same textfield.

Is it possible to add separate fields to the ical-feed from the ticket office, that event organiser can then later add?

Any suggestions how to solve this?

Thanks for any suggestions!

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Niklas,

I’ll be adding filters to imported feeds that will make this task a bit better, but here’s a solution for now

add_filter( 'the_content', 'niklas_reaplce_text_with_icon' );
function niklas_reaplce_text_with_icon( $content ){
    if( 'event' == get_post_type() ){
       //Path to icons used. Assumed wp-content/[theme-name]/img/[icon].png
       $icon_tickets_available = get_stylesheet_directory_uri()."/img/icon-tickets-available.png";
       $icon_tickets_unavailable = get_stylesheet_directory_uri()."/img/icon-tickets-unavailable.png";

       $content = str_replace( 
             "Tickets are available",
             "",
            $content
       );

       $content = str_replace( 
             "Tickets are unavailable",
             "",
            $content
       );
    }

    return $content;
}

(Please note, this is completely untested).

Why would doing this as the event is imported be better?

1. the_content runs on the front-end. In the text editor you’ll still see the text.
2. It’s something which can be done earlier (i.e. when the event is imported) – so by doing it on the front-end as the page loads for a visitor is doing unnecessary work.

The above mentioned filters should be added in Event Organiser 2.7. In the mean time, I hope that helps!

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