Specify near location field from stored data

[Lee]

I have a website in local development which users can select their local area and then content is targeted at their location. On the events calendar page I was hoping to automatically fill in the near location field for them, so that it shows local events. Any ideas on how this can be done?

http://imgur.com/ONl7ldZ

Also I was wondering if you can specify location on the widget as well?

Thanks.

[Brook]

Howdy Lee!

I would love to help you with this.

We actually have added a feature request for this. Please be sure to vote on it if this is something you’d like to see us build.

This is certainly possible to build now as a customization though, if you’re so inclined. First you should setup a PHP script on your site, perhaps call it events-near-me.php. Now when a user hits this page you should geocode their IP address using whatever geocoding service you prefer. Now that you have a long/lat and location name for the user you should HTTP redirect them to the maps page (example.com/events/map/. But fill in three query variables for them:

example.com/events/map/?tribe-bar-geoloc-lat=[INSERT LATITURE HERE]&tribe-bar-geoloc-lng=[INSERT LATITURE HERE]&tribe-bar-geoloc=[INSERT NAME OF LOCATION/CITY HERE]

And there you go! Now you can link to this page, and it will automatically return events near the user.

You can do something similar a widget if you’re so inclined, but it will be a lot more involved. You will need to alter the WP Query for the widget to include the location of the user. This would be a pretty advanced PHP script compared to the above.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Lee]

Thanks Brook.

I looked into the query variables closer and found out that there is a hook called ‘tribe-events-bar-filters’ that I can call which allows me to specify these from the stored data I have, if they are not set in the web address from submitting a new location. This seems to be working a treat. I have put the code below if you want to have a look. Thanks!

function set_events_location()
{
	if (empty($_REQUEST['tribe-bar-geoloc-lat']) && empty($_REQUEST['tribe-bar-geoloc-lng']) && empty($_REQUEST['tribe-bar-geoloc'])) {

		$_REQUEST['tribe-bar-geoloc-lat'] = '__LATITUDE_HERE__';
		$_REQUEST['tribe-bar-geoloc-lng'] = '__LONGITUDE_HERE__'
		$_REQUEST['tribe-bar-geoloc'] = '__PLACE_NAME_HERE__';
	}
} add_filter('tribe-events-bar-filters', 'set_events_location', 0, 0);

• This reply was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by Lee.

[Brook]

That’s excellent Lee. Nice clean code.

The only reason I suggested making a separate file/URL was so you could still show all events if you wanted. If you are prefilling the search on the home page, then I believe it will prevent the user from being able view events from all locations at once. Depending on your site this may or may not be something you desire. And I have not yet tested your code, so perhaps you found a way to work around that which I’m not seeing.

Thanks for getting back! Let me know if you need anything else. Cheers!

• Brook

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