Check if event has passed…

[Tony]

Is there a function to check if the event has passed? I need to check if the event has passed, to be used within the loop in tribe-events/single-event.php.

[Gustavo Bordoni]

Hi Tony,
Thanks for reaching out to us, and let me try to help you on this request.

I’ve crafted this snippet with a function to will do that for you, place that on your WordPress Theme’s functions.php file and you will be able to use it on your theme.

https://gist.github.com/bordoni/63de00ecc10517992053

My Best Regards,

[Tony]

Hi Gustavo,

The use of tribe_get_event() returns a fatal call to undefined function. I believe you want to use tribe_events_get_event() instead. Also the function is comparing the publish date. It should be comparing the event end date. I modified to below, but it’s still not working. I var_dump and $event->end_date returns null even if the event has a specified end date.

function tribe_is_past_event( $event_id = null ){
if ( ! tribe_is_event( $event_id ) ){
return false;
}
$event = tribe_events_get_event( $event_id );
return time() > strtotime( $event->end_date );
}

[Gustavo Bordoni]

Hi Tony,

I can only say, I’m truly sorry about that, it was my bad. I just updated the code, it should work as expected now.

My Best Regards,

[Tony]

Thanks, works great!

[Gustavo Bordoni]

Perfect, I’m closing this thread and marking the correct answer.

My Best Regards,

[Author]

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