Displaying number of events in a day

[Butch Roy]

I would like to create a custom template tag that counts how many events are in a given day. I’ve started with this:
http://pastebin.com/zp7p5LVz

However, that counts all the events, even when in a while loop. How can I have it only look for the number of events during a specific day? Is this something I need to include in the function, or do I have to put the function in some sort of loop?

[Barry]

Hi!

How about something like this:

$events = tribe_get_events( array(
	'eventDisplay' => 'custom',
	'start_date'   => '2014-12-23 00:00:01',
	'end_date'     => '2014-12-23 23:59:59'
) );

print( count( $events ) );

You would probably want to wrap this up in a function and make it more reusable by accepting a date parameter – but it should give the general idea 🙂

[Butch Roy]

An excellent start, thank you. So if I set up my function like this:
http://pastebin.com/827mg9aa
How can I pass it the current day in a while loop (specifically for a Week view)?

[Barry]

You’re really asking something that’s more of a general PHP/coding question than something that’s specific to our plugin – but you could basically use an approach like this:

for ( $day = 0; $day < 7; $day++ ) {
	$date = date( 'Y-m-d', strtotime( "+$day days" ) );
	huge_calendar_event_count( $date );
}

I’m using a for loop rather than a while loop, because it feels like a more natural fit, but you’re free to use whichever structure you prefer 🙂

I hope that helps – and good luck!

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