ical import dropping data into event details – possible to parse somehow?

[paul]

You can see what’s being pulled in: http://prntscr.com/a43h7f

Venue comes in fine, but would really like to have the event type (game, tournament, scrimmage, etc) and opponent dropped in to their own fields, so I can display them better on the front end of the site.

Thoughts on how to do this? Thank you!

[Brook]

Howdy Paul,

What you want is within the realm of possibility, but it will require a goodly bit of knowledge of PHP to do. If you have such knowledge, you will want to:

1. Hook into the save_post action.
2. Check if the _EventOrigin meta field is set. If so check it will tell if you the event is being imported via iCal or just a regular saved event.
3. If it’s an iCal event, parse the content. You will have to write your own parser based on the format of your content. With the parsed content save it as a custom field.

I’d guesstimate 2-5 hours of time to write and test. If you’re super familiar with WP maybe a bit faster.

If you don’t have lots of PHP knowledge then the above probably sounded like Greek. In which case you’ll probably need to hire someone who is familiar with WP to do this. If you don’t already have such a person on hand, you might checkout this link: List of freelance customizers.

Does that all make sense? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

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