prepopulating forms

[Edwin]

Hello,

I need to prepopulate one of the form fields on the Community Add events page. I understand the HTML aspect, but I don’t know where to find the HTML for the form.

THanks,

Edwin

[Ronald]

Hi Edwin,

I’d be happy to help you find what you  are looking for.  Can you tell me which form field you are trying to prepopulate and I can give you instructions.

Thanks

[Edwin]

Hello Ronald,

For now, the 2 fields I need to populate are the two HOURS fields under START time and END time. Thanks-

[Edwin]

and AM/PM on each

[Ronald]

Hi Edwin,

The location of the datepickers can be found at:

\wp-content\plugins\events-community\src\views\community\modules\datepickers.php

HOWEVER!  As you will see when you open that file, if you want to modify something in here, you would be better to create the override within your theme, see the instructions below:

* Event Submission Form Metabox For Datepickers
* This is used to add a metabox to the event submission form to allow for choosing the
* event time and day.

* Override this template in your own theme by creating a file at
* [your-theme]/tribe-events/community/modules/datepickers.php

There are two reasons to do this.  Number one, when the plugin gets updated, it will not override your changes, and number two, you don’t have to worry about messing up the plugin itself.  You can find specific instruction in our Themer’s Guide.

Let me know if this helps!

[Edwin]

Hi again Ronald and thanks for your help.

I made a copy of the file in the appropriate directory. Unfortunately, the HTML I was expecting to see appears to be encased in a PHP function:

<span class="timeofdayoptions">
@ <?php echo tribe_community_events_form_start_time_selector(); ?>
</span><!-- .timeofdayoptions -->

Here is what I am hoping to accomplish. Start time should be set to 9pm and End Time should be set to 3am.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Edwin

[Ronald]

Hi Edwin,
Based on what you want to change, we need to look at a different file:

That file is:wordpress\wp-content\plugins\events-community\template-tags.php

There are two areas to change starting on line 203.
$output .= sprintf( ‘%s‘, $start_hours );
$output .= sprintf( ‘%s‘, $start_minutes );

and then starting at line 234:

$output .= sprintf( ‘%s‘, $end_hours );
$output .= sprintf( ‘%s‘, $end_minutes );

To set the default value of either of these you would change it to: select name=”EventStartHour” value”2100″> (if using a 24 hour clock, if not set the meridian as well).

I hope that helps!

[Edwin]

Hi Ronald-

the path and file you mentioned doesn’t exist:
wordpress\wp-content\plugins\events-community\template-tags.php

In fact, I searched through many folders and didn’t find a file named template-tags.php

[Geoff]

Hey Edwin,

Sorry about that! Here’s the path:

/wp-content/plugins/events-community/src/functions/template-tags.php

Cheers!
Geoff

[Edwin]

Hi-

One last question on this topic. I have successfully edited the existing file, but I want to create a an override. So my question is… what path should I use for the new file? When I tried the one listed above, it did oot work. Thanks,

Edwin

[Geoff]

Good question. It’s actually not possible to override the template tags file but only our view files instead. If you need to change something in the template tags file, I would suggest going about it through the use of a filter rather than editing the file itself.

Geoff

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