Get Currency Symbol

[David]

How can I get the currency symbol assigned to an event please ?

Hoping for something like

$currency = tribe_get_event_currency_symbol( $postId )

Thanks

David

[Nico]

Hi there David,

Thanks for reaching out on this! Hopefully there’s an easy way of getting the currency symbol for an event:


$currency = tribe_get_event_meta( $postId, '_EventCurrencySymbol', true );


You can take a look into ‘wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/functions/template-tags/general.php’ there are some functions to work with cost / currency that you might find useful. Eg: tribe_format_currency at line 821.

Please let me know if this works as expected,
Best,
Nico

[David]

Great thanks, that worked great. I’m using it as a “spare field”. My events never have a cost, so I’m using the currency field as an ordinal value cheat. I’ve adapted the list widget to display the featured image for any event and I use whether or not the currency symbol is a ‘X’ to determine whether clicking on the featured image in the widget should link to the Event details or directly to the Event website.

Code below if anyone is interested.

<?php
/**
 * Events Pro List Widget Template
 * This is the template for the output of the events list widget.
 * All the items are turned on and off through the widget admin.
 * There is currently no default styling, which is highly needed.
 *
 * Override this template in your own theme by creating a file at [your-theme]/tribe-events/pro/widgets/list-widget.php
 *
 * When the template is loaded, the following vars are set:
 *
 * @var string $start
 * @var string $end
 * @var string $venue
 * @var string $address
 * @var string $city
 * @var string $state
 * @var string $province
 * @var string $zip
 * @var string $country
 * @var string $phone
 * @var string $cost
 * @var array  $instance
 *
 * @package TribeEventsCalendarPro
 *
 */

if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
	die( '-1' );
}

// Retrieves the posts used in the List Widget loop.
$posts = tribe_get_list_widget_events();

// The URL for this widget's "View More" link.
$link_to_all = tribe_events_get_list_widget_view_all_link( $instance );

// Check if any posts were found.
if ( isset( $posts ) && $posts ) :?>

<?php	foreach ( $posts as $post ) :
		setup_postdata( $post );
		do_action( 'tribe_events_widget_list_inside_before_loop' ); ?>

		<!-- Event  -->
		<div class="<?php tribe_events_event_classes() ?>">
		<?php  
		$currency_symbol = tribe_get_event_meta( $postId, '_EventCurrencySymbol', true ); 
		if ($currency_symbol == 'X')
		{
		// use the web site we've set as the event
		$website_url = tribe_get_event_website_url( $postId );
		}
		else
		{
		// link to the event page
		 $website_url = esc_url( tribe_get_event_link() ); 
		 }?>
		 
		<?php if ( !empty( $website_url ) ) { echo '<a href="' . $website_url . '">'; }?>
		<div class="tribe_navigator_image">
		<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'medium' );?>
		</div>
		<?php if ( !empty( $website_url )  AND $currency_symbol !='X') { echo '</a>'; }?>
			<?php tribe_get_template_part( 'pro/widgets/modules/single-event', null, $instance ) ?>
		<?php if ( !empty( $website_url )  AND $currency_symbol =='X') { echo '</a>'; }?>
		</div><!-- .hentry .vevent -->

		<?php do_action( 'tribe_events_widget_list_inside_after_loop' ) ?>

	<?php endforeach ?>

	<p class="tribe-events-widget-link">
		<a href="<?php esc_attr_e( esc_url( $link_to_all ) ) ?>" rel="bookmark">
			<?php esc_html_e( 'View More&hellip;', 'tribe-events-calendar-pro' ) ?>
		</a>
	</p>

<?php
// No Events were found.
else:
?>
	<p><?php //printf( __( 'ORIGINAL There are not any upcoming %s at this time.', 'tribe-events-calendar' ), strtolower( tribe_get_event_label_plural() ) ); ?></p>
<?php
endif;

// Cleanup. Do not remove this.
wp_reset_postdata();

[Nico]

Hey David,

Glad I could help you out here, also thanks for sharing your hack 🙂

Not an usual use of the currency symbol field I must say, but if it works… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ll go ahead and close out this thread, but if you need help with anything else please don’t hesitate to create a new one and we will be happy to assist you.

Best,
Nico

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