Hook on Facebook event created

[Keith]

I think I read somewhere that a hook was being introduced with version 4 to allow code to be executed when a Facebook Event is created. Could you point me to the details? Thanks.

[George]

Hey Keith,

Sure thing, there’s indeed a new hook now that fires when a Facebook Event is created inside your wp-admin site.

The hook is this: tribe_events_facebook_event_created.

It offers the following three arguments: $event_id, $organizer_id, and $venue_id.

Those variable names are very literally in their naming – the $event_id is the ID of the event inside wp-admin that was just created, and the $organizer_id and $venue_id variables are the IDs of the organizer and venue of that event, respectively.

To use this in code, you’d write something like this:

function tribe_support_example( $event_id, $organizer_id, $venue_id ) {
// Do stuff with $event_id, or $organizer_id, or $venue_id, or with all three!
}

add_action( 'tribe_events_facebook_event_created', 'tribe_support_example', 10, 3 );


I hope this all helps!

Cheers,
George

[Keith]

Hi George,

Thanks for that. What I’m wanting to do is add categories or possibly custom fields to the events when they are created. I’m assuming with the event_id I can access the event that has just been created and make the necessary changes.

Cheers,
Keith

[George]

Sure thing Keith!

And yes, you can absolutely add categories and such in that hook, using the event_id and WordPress core functions.

We are not able to help with custom coding here, so you’ll have to take the reins on that – but just as a quick link that might be helpful, I would recommend exploring the wp_set_object_terms() function that WordPress provides. You can read about this function here → https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_set_object_terms

Best of luck with your customizing!

— George

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