Hide/restrict access to a ticket type

[rhomedia]

Hi

I am using WooCommerce Subscriptions and Groups to create a subscription based site. I want to have one ticket type per event that is only available to paid members, i.e. hidden from others.

Could you point me in the direct of the WooTickets code I would need to adapt to achieve the above?

Thanks.
Richard

[Kelly]

Hi, Richard. I think I understand what you’re getting at.

This sounds like something that would be implemented in the WooCommerce side of things, rather than in our code, which basically allows easy integration with the WooCommerce functionality. Have you had a chance to get in touch with their support?

We did have someone last month who was talking about doing something similar: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/wootickets-with-member-and-public-pricing-for-one-event/ You might check that out for ideas, too.

Hope that all makes sense. Thanks for being a TEC user!

[Barry]

Hi Richard: just to add, a short snippet like this will hide/remove the ticket form:

remove_action('tribe_events_single_event_after_the_meta', array(TribeWooTickets::get_instance(), 'front_end_tickets_form'));

So you could use that conditionally, given a piece of code that detects if the current user is indeed a certain category of member, ie:

if (false === is_customer_type('gold_customer')) {
remove_action('tribe_events_single_event_after_the_meta', array(TribeWooTickets::get_instance(), 'front_end_tickets_form'));
}

The opening line – the is_customer_type() function – is of course something I just made up, you’d need to devise your own equivalent (or work with the relevant plugin authors to build it) but hopefully it gives you a broad idea of how this might be done.

A more comprehensive solution might additionally include a check run when items are added to the cart to provide more complete protection – however that sort of customization really relates to WooCommerce and we’d have to leave it to you to develop a solution there, too, though perhaps the team over at WooThemes could help with that.

Hope that gives you some ideas 🙂

[rhomedia]

Kelly, Barry

Thanks.

@Barry – I guess your code hides the whole form, rather than just one ticket type, which is what I want to achieve. It is useful, nevertheless.

rt.

[Kelly]

No problem, rt. Glad we could help!

[Barry]

Hi rhomedia, just to add that I see what you mean now and the code to hide the entire ticket form probably isn’t suitable. So, in your case, essentially you could instead get close to what you want by overriding and customizing wootickets/tickets.php (please see the Themer’s Guide for details).

For instance, within the code used to loop through the available tickets (lines 13-77, within the default version of the template) you could perform an additional check, perhaps against the presence or value of some post meta data attached to each ticket product, and decide to show or hide the ticket on that basis.

The actual implementation is something we’d need to leave to you, however 🙂

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