Conditionally display Additional Field, or customize Additional Field URL?

[Sean Sullivan]

[Looked through previous related threads but couldn’t find an answer to my question.]

I have a few Additional Fields in my events; they display in a custom-built Nivo Slider through WP_Query.

The fields won’t always be used, and I’d only like them displayed when a value has been entered (e.g., there’s one for a Facebook link, one for a Buy Tickets link, etc.).

I’d initially set the field as a “URL”. With a value of http://facebook.com, it outputs this HTML:

<a target="self" href="http://facebook.com">http://facebook.com</a>

The good: If no value is entered, nothing is displayed. The bad is that it doesn’t allow me to style the link or add a class. I’d prefer an output of:

http://facebook.com

… so I could wrap it in a <a> tag.

So, I figured I’d just set the additional fields as Text. That gets me a plain value of http://facebook.com spit out. Here’s the code I’m using:

<a class="slider-facebook-link" href="<?php $additional_fields = tribe_get_custom_fields(); echo $additional_fields['Facebook Event Link'];?>">Facebook</a>

Is this the best way to achieve what I’d like? If so, how can I set a conditional to only display the field if it has a value?

My attempt is:

<?php if($additional_fields = tribe_get_custom_fields(['Facebook Event Link'])) { ?>
 <a class="slider-facebook-link" href="<?php $additional_fields = tribe_get_custom_fields(); echo $additional_fields['Facebook Event Link'];?>">Facebook</a>
<?php } ?>

“>Facebook

[Sean Sullivan]

Sorry, that first code block should have read:

<a target="self" href="http://facebook.com">http://facebook.com</a>

[Sean Sullivan]

I’m not sure how I’m linking code wrong. Again, that first code block should be: http://facebook.com

[Sean Sullivan]

OK, so, I guess the support forum is wrapping all links in tags, even if they’re in code blocks, which has made the first half of my post super confusing.

Please just ignore the first half and skip down to the line that starts: “Here’s the code I’m using:”

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for using the Events Calendar. I can help out here.

Best way to share code a lot of the time is through Pastebin (can do it without an account) or as a Gist.

I think I got what you are trying to do.

Try this instead:

<?php
$additional_fields = tribe_get_custom_fields();

if ( $additional_fields['Facebook Event Link'] ) { ?>

tribe_get_custom_fields() returns an array for all additional fields.

Use that once then you can echo the value for any of your fields by adding the name:

<?php echo $additional_fields['Facebook Event Link']; ?>

Let me know if that works for you.

Thanks

[Brian]

Since there is has not been any activity on this thread for over 2 weeks so I am now closing it. Feel free to start a new thread if you have further issues. Thanks! 🙂

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