[Plugin: Event Organiser] Displaying next upcoming event outside of the loop.

Something like this should work.

<?php
$event_args = array(
    'numberposts' => 1,
    'orderby' => 'eventstart',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'showpastevents' => false,
    'post_status' => 'publish'
);

$events = eo_get_events($event_args);

if ($events):
    $return= ''; 

    foreach ($events as $event):
        $return .= $event->post_title;
    endforeach;  

    echo $return;
endif;
?>

You might also just be able to use the available shortcode: Shortcode Documentation

<?php echo do_shortcode("[eo_events]"); ?>

The shortcode listed out all of the events. Not exactly what I was wanting.

However, the other option did get me started. It’s returning the post title only at the moment. How do I call the rest of the information? Like the date and time and the thumbnail, etc. I’m basically wanting everything I have on the single event page, with the exception of the content. Here’s what I have on that page…

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

	<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($id, 'large'); ?>

	<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

	<div class="entry-meta">

<!-- Choose a different date format depending on whether we want to include time -->

<?php if(eo_is_all_day()): ?>
	<!-- Event is all day -->
		<?php $date_format = 'F jS, Y'; ?>
<?php else: ?>
	<!-- Event is not all day - include time in format -->
		<?php $date_format = 'F jS, Y g:ia'; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php printf(__('<h2>%s</h2>','eventorganiser'), eo_get_the_start($date_format) );?>

<?php if(eo_reoccurs()):?>
	<!-- Event reoccurs - is there a next occurrence? -->
	<?php $next =   eo_get_next_occurrence($date_format);?>
<?php if($next): ?>
	<!-- If the event is occurring again in the future, display the date -->
								<?php printf(__('This event is running from %1$s until %2$s. The next chance to catch it at Fred's is %3$s','eventorganiser'), eo_get_schedule_start('F jS, Y'), eo_get_schedule_last('F jS, Y'), $next);?>

<?php else: ?>

<!-- Otherwise the event has finished (no more occurrences) -->
								<?php printf(__('This event finished on %s','eventorganiser'), eo_get_schedule_last('F d, Y',''));?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php else: ?>

<!-- Event is a single event -->

<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

<!-- The content or the description of the event-->
	<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Daniel’s first answer should work – the default setting for the shortcode is to display all events. But you can use the showpastevents attribute and set it to false.

That said – rather than using showpastevents I’d encourage you to use event_start_after or event_end_after and set it to ‘now’ (depending on whether you want to include ‘running’ events). I’ll eventually depreciate showpastevents as the arguments/attributes event_start_after,event_end_after, event_start_before, event_end_before all accept relative date formats. (These are available in eo_get_events() and has attributes in [eo_events]).

Iamharian, here’s what I would do:

$event_args = array(
    'numberposts' => 5,
    'orderby' => 'eventstart',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'event_end_after' => 'today',
);

$events = eo_get_events($event_args);

if ($events):
    $return= '';
    global $post;
    $temp = $post;

    foreach ($events as $post):

	<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID(), 'large'); ?>

	<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

	<div class="entry-meta">
        <!-- Choose a different date format depending on whether we want to include time -->

	<?php if(eo_is_all_day()): ?>
		<!-- Event is all day -->
		<?php $date_format = 'F jS, Y'; ?>
	<?php else: ?>
		<!-- Event is not all day - include time in format -->
		<?php $date_format = 'F jS, Y g:ia'; ?>
	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php printf(__('<h2>%s</h2>','eventorganiser'), eo_get_the_start($date_format) );?>

	<?php if(eo_reoccurs()):?>
		<!-- Event reoccurs - is there a next occurrence? -->
		<?php $next =   eo_get_next_occurrence($date_format);?>
		<?php if($next): ?>
			<!-- If the event is occurring again in the future, display the date -->

			<?php 	printf(__('This event is running from %1$s until %2$s. The next chance to catch it at Fred's is %3$s','eventorganiser'), eo_get_schedule_start('F jS, Y'), eo_get_schedule_last('F jS, Y'), $next);?>

		<?php else: ?>

			<!-- Otherwise the event has finished (no more occurrences) -->
			<?php printf(__('This event finished on %s','eventorganiser'), eo_get_schedule_last('F d, Y',''));?>

		<?php endif; ?>

	<?php else: ?>

	<!-- Event is a single event -->

	<?php endif; ?>
	</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

    endforeach;  

    //Reset post variable
    $post = $temp;
endif;

That’s looking like something I want…but I’m getting T-string errors. I’m thinking I need to wrap some of it in php tags…but I’m not exactly where. Anywhere I wrap it…I get the same errors.

Nevermind. It was the apostrophe in the line about “Fred’s” It’s fixed. Thanks a ton guys!