Control Data in iCal Feed

[Grec]

I had previously used the 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 premium versions of this plugin and had commented out the description data provided to the iCal feed. My fix in the prior versions was to modify the events-calendar-pro.class.php file as follows.

Comment out: $events .= “DESCRIPTION:” . str_replace(“,”,’\,’,$description) . “\n”;

Create new line: $events .= “DESCRIPTION:Please visit the following link for all of the details on this event: ” . get_permalink( $eventPost->ID ) . “\n”;

Unfortunately, this file doesn’t appear in the new version of the plugin. Where can I find the file that controls the output of the iCal feed in the updated plugin?

[Andy Fragen]

Salvador, there’s a much better way that will survive any new updates.

I’ve already written some code to modify the ‘DESCRIPTION’ line. All that you should have to do is to comment out the line in my code that does the following.
$item[] = $mod; that’s line 13 in the gist.

This should remove the DESCRIPTION line entirely. You can find the code at https://gist.github.com/2649910

Let me know if this doesn’t do as you expect.

[Grec]

Thanks for the reference… Sorry for being a n00b … but here do I add this? Also I’d like to include a description but I’d like it to just be a link to the event in the calendar instead. Any suggestions there?

[Andy Fragen]

Salvador, you put this in your theme’s functions.php file. As for just making the DESCRIPTION a link. You could probably just alter line 11 from
$mod = substr($key[0], 0, 1000);
to something like
$mod = get_permalink( $eventPost->ID );

[Grec]

So does you original function just limit the DESCRIPTION to 1000 characters? Just checking… Been a while since I coded.

[Andy Fragen]

Yes

[Grec]

Looks like it’s doing what I wanted… Thanks Andy! For everyone else wanting to do the same thing, the following is the code I used. It’s a slight modification of Andy’s function and follow-up suggestions. Specifically, I needed to include “DESCRIPTION” right before the get_permalink function.

function tribe_ical_modify_event( $item, $eventPost ) {
$searchValue = “DESCRIPTION”;
$fl_array = preg_grep(‘/^’ . “$searchValue” . ‘.*/’, $item);
$key = array_values($fl_array);
$keynum = key($fl_array);
$mod = “DESCRIPTION:Please visit for more information: ” .get_permalink( $eventPost->ID );
unset($item[$keynum]);
$item[] = $mod;
return $item;
}

[Grec]

Andy: Do you happen to know a way I can use use my theme’s properties so I don’t have to update the EVP code after each upgrade for the following items.

Widget – Separate Date and Time

Bullets in Advanced Widget

I’ve seen some mentions of an override files but I need to get caught up on that.

[Andy Fragen]

Salvador, glad you got this little function working. It will survive ECP updates. As for your other questions, I think it’s time for a new thread. I’m not sure about those.

[Barry]

Thanks for jumping in there Andy.

Salvador: as Andy suggests it might be better to create a new thread if you have further questions – apart from anything else it makes it a lot easier for other users to find relevant topics that might help them in the future.

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