iCal exported file seems to have the same number of lines no matter what

[David Warner]

I took the suggestion I read on here about creating your own plugin and then putting in the code that would allow a pull of 365 days of events in iCal format. URL is: http://www.artintheadirondacks.com/events/?ical=1&year-feed However, when you get that file, it doesn’t match up to the actual number of events. When I look at the iCal file, it’s only 166 lines of information. Before I put that code in, it did the same thing – about 166 lines were downloaded. http://www.artintheadirondacks.com/events/?ical=1 The date spread is larger when I put your code in and say 365 days, but the number of lines downloaded in the iCal file remains the same. BTW: the site is limited to US and Canada IP addresses – if you are in another country, it’s blocked. Any thoughts?

[Hunter]

Hey David,

Sorry to hear about the troubles.

Would you mind sharing a link to the article on creating the plugin as you mentioned? I’m having a difficult time tracking it down. Once I have that, I’ll be able to provide more assistance.

Let me know and we’ll go from there. Thanks for choosing PRO and have a good day 🙂

[David Warner]

Here’s the code from the link:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: AITA
Description: Allows the Modern Tribe Events Calendar to pull a one year iCal feed.
Version: 0.1
License: GPL
Author: David E. Warner
Author URI: http://www.artintheadirondacks.com
*/
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘cliff_tribe_custom_time_range_ics_export’ );
function cliff_tribe_custom_time_range_ics_export( WP_Query $query ) {
if ( ! isset( $_GET[‘ical’] ) || ! isset( $_GET[‘year-feed’] ) ) {
return;
}
if ( ! isset( $query->tribe_is_event_query ) || ! $query->tribe_is_event_query ) {
return;
}
$query->set( ‘eventDisplay’, ‘custom’ );
$query->set( ‘start_date’, ‘now’ );
$query->set( ‘end_date’, ‘+ 365 days’ ); // http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.relative.php
$query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, -1 );
}
?>

[Hunter]

Welcome back David,

Thanks for sharing the code with me.

Before I investigate the issue on my test environment, would you please try the following snippet in place of the one you’re using and see if it yields the results you’re looking for?

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cliffordp/ab1f7c4d95723ee6f892/raw/0446284650b79e01ed24b11482e55bec5d4ca121/functions.php

Try it out and let me know how it goes. Thanks for choosing PRO and have an excellent week 🙂

[David Warner]

That’s the same code, I just took the comments out. However, I copy and pasted it in. Both links (either the year or your standard one I listed above – please try them yourself) still give only about 162-166 lines of events.

[David Warner]

On further examination (after putting all your new versions of the plugins up today) the problem still remains, but I have more data. I changed the number of events to view on a page from 16 to 30 thinking there might be a link. Then, I used the Export Listed Events button at the bottom of the page…It STILL only spit out 166 lines of events. So, there is something more going on in your iCal functionality than what I’m trying to do by showing a year’s worth of events.

[Hunter]

Hey David,

Thanks for the updates. I’m going to do some testing on my local environment and consult with a few other team members on the matter and will get back to you with my findings as soon as possible.

Thank you for holding tight and have a good week 🙂

[David Warner]

Any updates?

[George]

Hey David,

Apologies for the delayed response here. I am working on this customized code, and am getting inconsistent results with my iCal output.

I’m wondering—if you specify a high number for the ‘posts_per_page’ argument, instead of the current ‘-1’ value, does anything change with your output?

So instead of this:

$query->set( 'posts_per_page', -1 );

This, for example:

$query->set( 'posts_per_page', 300 );

Thank you,
George

[David Warner]

I just tried that (cleared the cache) and had the same result. I’ve left the code with the 300 set if you want to export a file from the site by clicking on the Export Listed Events button.

[George]

Hey David,

I’ve done some experimenting and found some progress by ensuring that timestamps are returned instead of strings. To test this yourself, can you try finding these two lines of code:


$query->set( 'start_date', 'now' );
$query->set( 'end_date', '+ 365 days' );


And using the strtotime() function on each parameter, so that those lines instead look like this:


$query->set( 'start_date', strtotime( 'now' ) );
$query->set( 'end_date', strtotime( '+ 365 days' ) );


Let me know if this helps!

— George

[David Warner]

This is all it spits out from this URL (http://www.artintheadirondacks.com/events/?ical=1&year-feed) after the changes:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Art in the Adirondacks – ECPv4.0.7//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Art in the Adirondacks
X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.artintheadirondacks.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Art in the Adirondacks
END:VCALENDAR

[George]

Thanks for testing this David. I’m baffled by why my results are so different from yours. At this point the best next step I can think of would be to do a thorough test for theme or plugin conflicts. It’s possible that one of these pieces of software on your site has its own WP_Query manipulation going on which is messing with things here—or something to this effect….

To test for conflicts, I would recommend leaving your code as-is for now. Leave these plugins activated:

• The Events Calendar

Other than just that one plugin, deactivate every plugin on your site.

What happens when you try to generate a year-of-events feed?

If the result is the same, then I would recommend keeping things in this state and then activating a default theme like Twenty Sixteen.

What happens when you try to generate a year-of-events feed?

Let us know if you can do these steps, and if so, what you can find!

Thank you,
George

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