Load Events List via Ajax

[Tarek Schneider]

Hi there,

can you tell me which is the best way to get the Events List (eo-loop-events.php) via an ajax call to load it dynamically? I am despairing since hours. Would be very nice if you could give me a hint.

Thank you very much.
Tarek

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Tarek,

The event list template is more for rendering, but you can try the following:

//Add a callback to your ajax hook - this will depend on your action variable
add_action( 'wp_ajax...ajax-hook', function() {

     //Set the query based on your ajax request
     $query = query_posts( ... ); //set the query

     //loads the template, which prints output
     //you can use object buffering if you need to manipulate or format the output
     eo_locate_template( 'eo-loop-events.php', true, true );
     exit;
} );

[Tarek Schneider]

That works! Thank you very much! 🙂 Could you tell me as well which query variables I need for searching post titles and preview texts? I couldn’t find the right expression for that. Category and Tag search is working.

Something like this:

$args = array(
‘post_type’=>’event’,
‘showpastevents’=>true,
‘posts_per_page’=>-1,
‘event-category’=>’SomeCategory’,
‘post_title’=>’I am a post title.’, // this isn’t working
‘preview_text’=>’aword’, // this isn’t working
);

Regards, Tarek

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by  Tarek Schneider.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Tarek,

Not sure what you mean by ‘preview_text’ (the excerpt?), but the ‘s’ parameter searches title and content.

[Tarek Schneider]

Yes, i mean the excerpt! I tried the s parameter, but unfortunately all events are shown although there is no word ‘test’ in the title/text.

      $args = array(
        'post_type'=>'event',
        'showpastevents'=>true,
        'posts_per_page'=>-1,
        'event-category'=>'sport',
        's'=>'test',
      );
      query_posts( $args );

      eo_locate_template( 'eo-loop-events.php', true, true ); ?>

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by  Tarek Schneider.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by  Tarek Schneider.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by  Tarek Schneider.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by  Tarek Schneider.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Tarek,

This works for me. Have you tried deactivating other themes / plug-ins to see if there’s a conflict?

[Tarek Schneider]

Yes, I cleaned up everything and now it’s working! Thank you for your help!
Tarek

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