Filtering to a date range using tribe_get_events()

[unaoc]

I’m trying to use tribe_get_events() to search for events that fall within a specific date range, similar to example #2 under the function on https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/the-events-calendar-template-tags-general-functions/ , but no matter what dates or formatting I use for start_date and end_date, it seems to return the “upcoming” posts. This is also the same result that I get if I omit start_date and end_date from the arguments array.

I did get a different result when I used the value of time() for start_date and end_date – it returned the past events with the earliest start dates – but this result stayed the same regardless of if I changed the range or multiplied the value of time() by anything.

[Barry]

Hi Aaron, yep this is (currently) a little counter-intuitive. What are you setting the eventDisplay parameter to?

[unaoc]

Aha! As per the example in the documentation, I was omitting the eventDisplay paramater, but it seems that when that paramater is omitted it defaults to ‘upcoming’ and ignores ‘start_date’ and ‘end_date’. When I add ‘eventDisplay’=>’all’, everything works as expected.
Thanks!

[Barry]

No problem, glad you’re all sorted here 🙂

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