Start_date and End_date not being taken into consideration

[thecolumbian]

Good Afternoon,

I’m making a custom event search for an admin-side export plugin I’m writing.

Everything is working as it should, but instead of querying for events between a certain date within a certain category, it shows ALL of the events in the category.

It doesn’t matter what I put in the ‘start_date’ or ‘end_date’ fields, it doesn’t utilize it.

		if(isset($_POST['eventExport'])) {
			$exportEvent['startDate'] = '2016-4-1';  // start_date
			$exportEvent['endDate'] = '2016-4-30';  // end_date
			$exportEvent['category'] = $_POST['exportCategory'];
			$exportPosted = true;

			$exportOptions = array(
					'start_date' => $exportEvent['startDate'],
					'end_date' => $exportEvent['endDate'],
					'eventDisplay' => 'custom',
					'posts_per_page' => -1,
					'tax_query' => array(
						array(
							'taxonomy' => 'tribe_events_cat',
							'field' => 'term_id',
							'terms' => $exportEvent['category']
							))
				);

			$events = tribe_get_events($exportOptions);

Any help would be appreciated

[Brook]

Howdy Brandon,

Great question. tribe_get_events() can be a bit tempermental it seems like. I think all you’re missing is casting those date strings to times. You probably want the beginning of the first day through the end of the last one. If so I would replace them with this code:

$exportEvent['startDate'] = tribe_beginning_of_day( '2016-4-1' ); // start_date
$exportEvent['endDate'] = tribe_end_of_day( '2016-4-30' ); // end_date

Did that help?

Cheers!

– Brookq

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