change heading text in event-bar

[Matthew]

Hi,

I’m trying to change the placeholder label in the search bar from “Location” to “Enter City or Zip” because it returns no events if you enter the state.

I found this thread:

How to change heading text in event-bar

I altered it and entered this:

function event_bar_modify_placeholder_text( array $filters ) {
foreach ( $filters as &$single_filter ) {
$single_filter[‘html’] = str_replace(
‘placeholder=”Location”‘,
‘placeholder=”Enter City or Zip”‘,
$single_filter[‘html’] );
}

return $filters;
}

add_filter( ‘tribe-events-bar-filters’, ‘event_bar_modify_placeholder_text,

I added the snippet to my site plugin (where I add any custom functions) and I got this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ”event_bar_modify_placeholder_’ (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE) in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas10_data01/74/2764374/html/wp-content/plugins/physiocourse-plugin/physiocourse-plugin.php on line 433

It seems to suggest the snippet is not finished. I tried to finish it with ); but that did not help. I also tried just the original snippet that was to change the date placeholder but the same thing happened.

My apologies, I’m not code literate but I don’t want to pay a developer for a simple change in the text if I can avoid it 🙂

Thanks in advance
Mat

[Brook]

Howdy Matthew,

Good question. That is a bit of an old snippet for adjust the text. We have an update method that is a bit simpler. You should be able to just copy/paste the following code to change that text:
[php]
/*
* EXAMPLE OF CHANGING ANY TEXT (STRING) IN THE EVENTS CALENDAR
* See the codex to learn more about WP text domains:
* http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#Localization_Technology
* Example Tribe domains: ‘tribe-events-calendar’, ‘tribe-events-calendar-pro’…
*/
function tribe_custom_theme_text ( $translations, $text, $domain ) {

// Put your custom text here in a key > value pair
// Example: ‘Text you want to change’ > ‘This is what it will be changed to’
// The text you want to change is the key, and it is case-sensitive
// The text you want to change it to is the value
// You can freely add or remove key > values, but make sure to separate them with a comma
// This example changes the label "Venue" to "Location", and "Related Events" to "Similar Events"
$custom_text = array(
‘Location’ => ‘Enter City or Zip’,
);

// If this text domain starts with "tribe-", and we have replacement text
if(strpos($domain, ‘tribe-‘) === 0 && array_key_exists($text, $custom_text) ) {
$text = $custom_text[$text];
}

return $text;
}
add_filter(‘gettext’, ‘tribe_custom_theme_text’, 20, 3);[/php]

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Matthew]

That worked nicely,

thanks Brook

[Brook]

Excellent! Thanks for letting me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

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