Show link to Event on homepage template

[Daniel Branigan]

I’m using the tribe_get_events() function to pull the latest event into my homepage template.

Ideally I’d like to simply show a link to the Event page on the Eventbrite website but failing that I could just show the Tickets iframe.

I’ve tried the tribe_eb_event() function in my homepage template within the loop but I get this error:
Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /homepages/26/d404544959/htdocs/new/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-eventbrite-tickets/lib/tribe-eventbrite.class.php

[Kelly]

Hi, braniganinteractive. Thanks for getting in touch about your issue. I really apologize for the lag in response time.

Let me have this looked at by our team and get back to you. I should be in touch within the next day or so.

Thanks for your continued patience!

[Barry]

Hi braniganinteractive,

One possibility here would be to loop through your results and use the post ID for each event to retrieve the related Eventbrite ID / test if it indeed exists by using WordPress’s get_post_meta() function (the related meta key is _EventBriteId), so something like this:

$ebID = get_post_meta($eventID, '_EventBriteId');

If you get a valid ID string back you could use it to form a URL for the event over on Eventbrite, as they typically follow a reliable and simple pattern:

www.eventbrite.com/event/{event_id}

(Where of course {event_id} would be the actual string of numbers.)

Does that help at all?

[Daniel Branigan]

Hi Barry
I’ve tried your suggestion but I’m getting an array returned rather than a string.
This is the code inside my query loop – I’m getting the correct post ID for the event, but not the _EventBriteId.
$event_id = get_the_ID();
$ebID = get_post_meta($event_id, ‘_EventBriteId’);
echo $ebID;

[Barry]

Hi braniganinteractive,

So you’ve got a couple of choices there – you could either inspect the array or you could alternatively ask for a single result to be returned by doing something like:

get_post_meta($event_id, '_EventBriteId', true)

There’s a great guide to how get_post_meta() works over here: http://codex.wordpress.org/get_post_meta

Does that help at all?

[Daniel Branigan]

Thanks Barry, that’s just what I needed. 🙂

[Barry]

Excellent!

[Support Droid]

This topic has not been active for quite some time and will now be closed.

If you still need assistance please simply open a new topic (linking to this one if necessary)
and one of the team will be only too happy to help.

[Author]

Posts