Comment count on event-list

we don’t have any placeholders for that. you’d need to use php to either create a placeholder that does this or use PHP to display your events and show the comment count.

you’d use the wp method to get comment counts for the post id for that event.

ok, sorry i’m new to this plugin. Can I get events like this https://pastebin.com/hDMfVu8N
and add wp count comments to this array?
What is the right way to get post id for the events?

though I haven’t tried it yet, I think you can try to combine this https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_count_comments with your pastebin link however try to used EM_Events::get() instead

e.g.

if (class_exists('EM_Events')) {
$events = EM_Events::get(array('scope' => 'future'));

foreach($events as $event) {
  echo $event->output('#_EVENTNAME')." - ".wp_count_comments($event->output('#_EVENTPOSTID'));
}

}

better yet,

$event->post_id

or

$event->ID

Hmm, tried but i get an error “Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string ” so I guess I’m doing something wrong here and getting an object instead of string??

I also tried $event->post_id and $event->ID but I’m not getting it right. I’m able to output the events without wp_count_comments so something wrong there.

Could you post the code you’re now using? Thanks.

Thanks for help. I used the code above and replaced the
($event -> output(‘#_EVENTPOSTID’));
with
($event -> post_id));

I’m getting something with this but it’s not right
https://pastebin.com/CLTXb3Tw

can I know what are you getting?

oh, i’m getting it almost right with the pastebin code ?? the layout/formatting is just messed up
—

First Event name,
First Event excerpt

– First event comment number
Second event name
Second event excerpt

– Second event comment number
Third event name etc.

If you can post the format / order you actually want, I should be able to tell you how to switch it around.

you can change the formatting on this line

echo $event->output('#_EVENTNAME,#_EVENTEXCERPT').' - '.$comments_count->total_comments;

e.g.

echo $event->output(array('format'=>'#_EVENTNAME, #_EVENTEXCERPT -'.$comments_count->total_comments,'format_header
'=>'<ul>','format_footer'=>'</ul>'));

Thanks for help! I didin’t manage to do it like that but I got the right formatting like this

<?php if (class_exists('EM_Events')) {
$events = EM_Events::get(array('scope' => 'all' ));

foreach($events as $event) {
$comments_count = wp_count_comments($event->post_id);
echo '<div class="post">';
echo $event->output(
'<div class="post-meta">{is_past}<span class="silver" href="">Mennyt</span>{/is_past}
{is_current}<span class="green" href="">K?ynniss?</span>{/is_current}
{is_future}<span class="green" href="">K?ynniss?</span>{/is_future} #_EVENTDATES</div>
<div class="post-entry">
<div class="post-thumbnail"><a href="#_EVENTURL">#_EVENTIMAGE{100, 100}</a></div>
<h4><a href="#_EVENTURL">#_EVENTNAME</a></h4>
<p>#_EVENTEXCERPT</p><span class="tags">#_EVENTTAGS</span></div>').
'<div class="comments">'.$comments_count->total_comments;'</div>';
echo '</div>';
}

}
?>

oh, sorry about the ugly formatting, the last lines should be

'<div class="comments">'.$comments_count->total_comments;
echo '</div></div>';
}

}
?>