Last date of recurring event

[dkinney]

In the case of an event that runs September 5 to November 16, I need to get the November 16 date, the LAST date of the recurrence to use in a template. I tried the code snippet referenced here https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-post-id-of-the-event/
but that gave me September 5, the date of the current event, not the last day in the series.

[Josh]

Hello dkinney,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

I took a look at that snippet and it looks like it can only be used to find the start date. To find the end date you’ll need to use the “_EventRecurrence” meta and access the “end” date there. Here is an example of the previous snippet modified to get the last event date for a recurring event.

<?php 
$recurrence = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_EventRecurrence', false );

foreach( $recurrence as $events ) {
$last_event = $events[end];
}

$final_date = date( get_option('date_format'), strtotime($last_event) );
echo "The last event takes place on $final_date.";

Let me know if this works for you.

Thanks!

[dkinney]

Thank you

[Josh]

Hello Diane,

No problem! Happy to be able to help.

If you have a few moments, we would definitely appreciate a review for our plugin on the WordPress repository.

I’m going to go ahead and close this ticket. If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to open a new one.

Thanks!

[Author]

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