New to PHP, what calls inside the loop?

[Ross]

Hello, great plugin, exactly what I am looking for and I will be purchasing the pro plugin as soon as it is available.

To explain I am a total newbie to PHP as I consider myself a frontend designer, however I really want to get the most from this plugin as it is exactly what I am after. I have been reading the documentation but it is not clicking just yet.

I know I have wrongly used a shortcode to show the event details on the event-single page, and it is showing ALL the start dates for ALL events and the event times.

I have been using shortcodes inside the loop, can you let me know what calls I should be using?

<?php echo do_shortcode('[eo_events]%start{jS F Y}%[/eo_events]'); ?>

<?php echo do_shortcode('[eo_events]%start{g:i:a}% - %end{g:i:a}%[/eo_events]'); ?>

Looking forward to the Pro version!

Many thanks

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Ross,

The shortcode is for listing events. To display an event’s date/time you can use eo_get_the_start().(see docs and examples)

[Ross Gosling]

Thank you very much, I used the following code and its showing great:

<?php echo eo_get_the_start('g:i:a'); ?> - <?php echo eo_get_the_end('g:i:a'); ?>


One last question is that I would like to show a ‘custom field’ that has been added to the event post, how would I do that?

Thanks in advance:)
Ross

[Stephen Harris]

No worries 🙂

Events are just a post ype, so you can use the usual WordPress functions ( see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta )

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