Any news on a fix for the categories with no events bug?

[morktron]

Hi, I really need to launch my clients site so I can get paid but there is a serious bug in Events Calendar Pro where error code is shown for categories with no current events. It’s been 10 days now since the bug was first reported but still no news on a fix: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/catchable-fatal-error-when-no-events-in-category/#post-76178

Events Calendar Pro is basically unusable until this is fixed. I bought a pro subscription since it usually means pro support but you guys are letting us down.

ECP is great and so are the talented developers, but please you must fix this as soon as possible since my family needs to eat 😉

[Antonio]

Same problem here! Please fix this ASAP

The output of var_dump($tax_term) is string(0) “”

If I comment this line, the error disappear but notice don’t show

elseif ( ! empty( $tax_term ) && tribe_is_upcoming() ) {
TribeEvents::setNotice( ‘events-not-found’, sprintf( __(‘No matching events listed under %s. Check out upcoming events for this category or view the full calendar.’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’) . $tax_term ) );
}

[Antonio]

temporary fix
http://pastebin.com/2m6HXyVn

[Chris]

Hi there,
We’ll be fixing this in the next release

-Chris

[morktron]

Hi Antonio, thanks for the temporary fix. Does that go in functions.php ?

Hi Chris, thanks for letting us know this will be fixed in the next release. If you have any idea of when that would be please let me know, thanks

[morktron]

Hi Antonia, doh! silly me! Of course it is in “wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/lib/tribe-template-factory.class.php on line 265”

the temp fix works very well, thanks 🙂

[Barry]

Great that you figured out a solution there.

We do indeed have a fix that should arrive in the next maintenance release: if you are happy with Antonio’s temporary fix (thanks Antonio!) that should be fine, alternatively you can replace the-events-calendar/lib/tribe-template-factory.class.php with this alternative version of the same file.

That change (as with Antonio’s) will be wiped when the next update takes place, but of course a substantive fix ought to be in place at that point.

Sorry once again for the inconvenience.

[morktron]

Excellent thanks Barry, much appreciated.

While you are fixing the code you could add some usability enhancement. At the moment it says:

“No matching events listed under category. Check out upcoming events for this category or view the full calendar”

but if there are no upcoming events for the category then it there is no logic in suggesting checking out upcoming events for that category.

Secondly you may as well put a link on the words “view the full calendar”

Lastly on the page with no current event there is a link to “previous events”, if you click it you get to watch a loading icon for all eternity.

If you go to the link it’s trying to go to you get different error:

“Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in ***/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/lib/tribe-template-factory.class.php on line 269”

It’s trying to go to a url with /past on the end

Anyway, I look forward to the new release, thanks again 🙂

[Barry]

Apologies because I inadvertently seem to have linked to the same Pastebin code as Antonio suggested in my last reply. I’ve updated that now and what I intended to link to was actually http://d.pr/f/eh0I (important, because that should also solve the other fatal error you cited, too).

“No matching events listed under category. Check out upcoming events for this category or view the full calendar”

but if there are no upcoming events for the category then it there is no logic in suggesting checking out upcoming events for that category.

Great point – we’ll get that on the issue tracker 🙂

[morktron]

Cool Barry, no worries, thanks 🙂

[Barry]

Since I think we’ve all got workarounds for the main issue and your suggestion has been logged (morktron) I’ll go ahead and close this thread. Of course if there is anything else we can help with please don’t hesitate to create new threads as required.

Thanks!

[Leah]

Hi there,

I just wanted to let you know that we have been working diligently on a fix for this issue. Our next release (3.6) will be available soon and should correct this problem. Please keep an eye on your Plugins and Updates pages for a version update. If you are still having problems after updating, please start a new thread with the details and we can assist you.

Best,
Leah

[Support Droid]

This topic has not been active for quite some time and will now be closed.

If you still need assistance please simply open a new topic (linking to this one if necessary)
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