[Plugin: Events Manager] Searching by custom taxonomy

you can download the complete tutorials of that at https://wp-events-plugin.com/downloads/2011/04/em-event-styles.txt

It doesn’t explain how to do it when you use a custom taxonomy. I will keep trying and post when I find the solution

can you try this post – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-events-manager-using-custom-taxonomies-in-shortcodes?replies=8

I’m getting a lot closer. Here’s how I made the drop down for the search:

add_action('em_template_events_search_form_ddm', 'artists_search_form');
function artists_search_form(){
	$artists = (is_array(get_option('Artists'))) ? get_option('Artists'):array();
	?>
	<!-- START artists Search -->
	<select name="artist" id="artist_search">
		<option value="-1" selected="selected">Artists</option>
		<?php
		$taxonomies = array('artists');
		$args = array('orderby'=>'count','hide_empty'=>true);
		echo get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args);
		?>
	</select>
	<!-- END artists Search -->
	<?php
}

function get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args){
	$myterms = get_terms($taxonomies, $args);

	foreach($myterms as $term){
		$root_url = get_bloginfo('url');
		$term_taxonomy=$term->taxonomy;
		$term_slug=$term->slug;
		$term_name =$term->name;
		$value = $term->term_id;
		$output .="<option value='".$value."'>".$term_name."</option>";
	}

return $output;
}

Now I’m having an issue with this section of code:

function my_em_artists_events_get($events, $args){
	if( !empty($args['artist']) && is_numeric($args['artist']) ){
		foreach($events as $event_key => $EM_Event){
			if( !in_array($args['artist'],$EM_Event->artists) ){
				unset($events[$event_key]);
			}
		}
	}
	return $events;
}

The problem is that $EM_Event->artists is not an array. Somehow I have to bring in the taxonomy. I’m going to try to use a similar technique as the function get_terms_dropdown

Will keep you posted. Thanks for the links aglonwl, they’ve been pointing me in the right direction

Alright here’s the full code added to my functions.php file, fully working. One of my major sticking points was that I followed the other search drop-downs and set the “Artists” option in the select box to value=”-1″ (all the other ones did that, I figured it was correct). It caused me to run into a problem of not displaying any event ever.

Copy the code and do a replace (ctrl-H in notepad++) on “artists” to “your-taxonomy-name” and replace “artist” with your “single-taxonomy-name”

// custom Artist taxonomy for events
add_action( 'init', 'register_my_taxonomies', 0 );

function register_my_taxonomies() {
$labels = array(
    'name'                          => 'artists',
    'singular_name'                 => 'artist',
    'search_items'                  => 'Search Artists',
    'popular_items'                 => 'Popular Artists',
    'all_items'                     => 'All Artists',
    'parent_item'                   => 'Parent Artist',
    'edit_item'                     => 'Edit Artist',
    'update_item'                   => 'Update Artist',
    'add_new_item'                  => 'Add New Artist',
    'new_item_name'                 => 'New Artist',
    'separate_items_with_commas'    => 'Separate Artists with commas',
    'add_or_remove_items'           => 'Add or remove Artists',
    'choose_from_most_used'         => 'Choose from most used Artists'
    );

$args = array(
    'label'                         => 'Artists',
    'labels'                        => $labels,
    'public'                        => true,
    'hierarchical'                  => true,
    'show_ui'                       => true,
    'show_in_nav_menus'             => true,
    'args'                          => array( 'orderby' => 'term_order' ),
    'rewrite'                       => array( 'slug' => 'events/artists', 'with_front' => false ),
    'query_var'                     => true
);

register_taxonomy( 'artists', EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT, $args );
}

// custom taxonomy search and display
add_action('em_template_events_search_form_ddm', 'artists_search_form');
function artists_search_form(){
	$artists = (is_array(get_option('artists'))) ? get_option('artists'):array();
	?>
	<!-- START artists Search -->
	<select name="artist" id="artist_search">
		<option value="" selected="selected">Artists</option>
		<?php
		$taxonomies = array('artists');
		$args = array('orderby'=>'count','hide_empty'=>true);
		echo get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args);
		?>
	</select>
	<!-- END artists Search -->
	<?php
}

function my_em_artists_event_load($EM_Event){
	global $wpdb;
	$EM_Event->artists = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT term_taxonomy_id FROM $wpdb->term_relationships WHERE object_id='{$EM_Event->post_id}'", 0	);
}
add_action('em_event','my_em_artists_event_load',1,1);

// And make the search attributes for the shortcode
add_filter('em_events_get_default_search','my_em_artists_get_default_search',1,2);
function my_em_artists_get_default_search($searches, $array){
	if( !empty($array['artist']) ){
		$searches['artist'] = $array['artist'];
	}
	return $searches;
}

add_filter('em_events_get','my_em_artists_events_get',1,2);
function my_em_artists_events_get($events, $args){
	if( !empty($args['artist'])  ){
		foreach($events as $event_key => $EM_Event){
			if( !in_array($args['artist'],$EM_Event->artists) ){
				unset($events[$event_key]);
			}
		}
	}
	return $events;
}

function get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args){
	$myterms = get_terms($taxonomies, $args);

	foreach($myterms as $term){
		$root_url = get_bloginfo('url');
		$term_taxonomy=$term->taxonomy;
		$term_slug=$term->slug;
		$term_name =$term->name;
		$value = $term->term_id;
		$output .="<option value='".$value."'>".$term_name."</option>";
	}

return $output;
}

This is great. Helped me out a lot.
I’ve added support for “reselecting the chosen item in the dropdown” by adding some code to set the “selected” attribute too….
Modified get_terms_dropdown function below.
Set
'$search_values['cat'] = 'your chosen items slug'

before calling the function.

function get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args)
{
    global $search_values;

    $myterms = get_terms($taxonomies, $args);
    $output = "";
    foreach ($myterms as $term) {
        $root_url = get_bloginfo('url');
        $term_taxonomy = $term->taxonomy;
        $term_slug = $term->slug;
        $term_name = $term->name;
        $value = $term->term_id;
        if ($search_values['cat'] == $term->slug) {
            $selected = 'selected="selected" ';
        } else {
            $selected = '';
        }
        $output .= "<option value='" . $value . "' " . $selected . ">" . $term_name . "</option>";
    }

    return $output;
}

Hey gmorley or pharmadave,

Is there any way to plug in the Artists taxonomy into the front end event editor? If I wanted to add an event for a specific artist how would I create the drop down selector to choose the artist from?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Benton

How would you pass along the taxonomy value from a recurring event to each recurrence?

I changed

register_taxonomy( ‘artists’, EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT, $args );

to

register_taxonomy( ‘artists’, array(EM_POST_TYPE_EVENT, ‘event-recurring’), $args );

This is a start, but the values do not save in the recurrences.

Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

taxonomies in recurrences are tricky, because you need to save WP taxonomies to each post we created as a recurrence.

I can’t give a step-by-step here, but can point you to the relevant line:

return apply_filters('em_event_save_events', false, $this, $event_ids, $post_ids);

you need to hook into that filter, probably create an EM_Event object for each item in array $event_ids, replace the $EM_Event->categories with the $this->categories we pass on (which won’t be called $this in your filter function), and then run $this->get_categories()->save();

I haven’t tested this, but in theory it should automatically do the hard work for you.