[Plugin: Events Manager] dbem_get_events_list arguments don't work anymore

  • I just updated a couple of my wordpress sites with version 3.0.3. I believe I was using the latest 2.x version before. On one of the sites I had the “dbem_get_events_list” function generate an event list on the homepage and another in the sidebar on the subpages. I utilized the “format” argument to list the events in a table format.

    It seems the “dbem_get_events_list” function is being phased out since it won’t process any of the arguments anymore. I’m now using the events widget to list the events on the homepage and sidebar, but without the ability to add a header or footer to the events loop I can’t add the table tags. I tried making a widget space exclusively for the events so that I can hardcode the table tags around the widget space but the events widget still adds ul and li tags so that by table gets jumbled up with list tags inside of it.

    Any solutions?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/events-manager/

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  • Plugin Contributor nutsmuggler

    (@nutsmuggler)

    Hello inksprite.
    The dbem_get_events_list isn’t being phased out at all: it’s in our ‘deprecated’ file, for we mean to provide a better alternative soonish, but it’s still there for backward compatibility, and we’re not going to remove it.
    In short, it is supposed to work as it did before.

    Can you paste the code you are using to generate the events list?

    Also, just for debug purposes, have you tried deactivating other plugins?

    Cheers,
    Davide of EM

    hi inksprite,

    try using

    <?php
echo EM_Events::get(array('scope'=>'future','format'=>'yourhtmlhere');
?>
    Thread Starter inksprite

    (@inksprite)

    Hi,

    My code is

    <?php
dbem_get_events_list("limit=3&format=<tr><td><span class=\"small_gray\">#M #j, #Y</span></td><td><span class=\"large_bold\">#_NAME</span></td><td><a href=\"#_EVENTPAGEURL\">More Details</a></td></tr>");
?>

    socialmediatrends, I’ll try and see if your method works.

    Thread Starter inksprite

    (@inksprite)

    socialmediatrends, your code doesn’t seem to work for me.

    And yes, I have tried deactivating all the other plugins.

    Let me know if my code is off. It hasn’t changed since before the upgrade and it worked fine then.

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    @inksprite,
    do you get any php errors? what do you mean by not working?

    Thread Starter inksprite

    (@inksprite)

    Well, for socialmediatrends’ code I used to get a syntax error and figured out it was missing a closing parenthesis. Now it just prints “Array” for which I suppose I could write a function to display it properly, but I’d rather the original function work.

    As for the original dbem_get_events_list function — I don’t get en error. It just ignores all the arguments and prints all the events with the default format defined on the events manager settings page.

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    I see what’s wrong, you want is this actually:

    <?php echo EM_Events::output(array('scope'=>'future', 'limit'=>3,'format'=>'<tr><td><span class=\"small_gray\">#M #j, #Y</span></td><td><span class=\"large_bold\">#_NAME</span></td><td><a href=\"#_EVENTPAGEURL\">More Details</a></td></tr>')); ?>

    *edit the old function is being phased out anyway so it’s best you use this, the above does the same thing anyway. You might want to strip the slashes in the html too.

    Thread Starter inksprite

    (@inksprite)

    Great, that worked. It looks like I need to use “output” instead of “get”.

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author Marcus (aka @msykes)

    (@netweblogic)

    yup, exactly. get returns an arrray of events, output calls get within it and also outputs. It’ll all be in the new docs, which is coming v.soon!

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