: strtotime() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in on line

[Rex]

Following up on the discussion here (https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/warning-strtotime-expects-parameter-1-to-be-string-object-given-in/), this error message is being displayed on all calendar feeds on my site home page. This development site has been posted on two different servers at the following urls:

http://rexchannel.com/wp_dev/index.php
http://053.f42.myftpupload.com/index.php

The error DOES NOT occur in my local development environment. The complete error message is:

: strtotime() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in on line

Warning/home/content/p3pnexwpnas04_data01/66/2773966/html/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/Tribe/Query.php217

Here is an example of the code I used to create the calendar feeds:

<?php
global $post;
 
// retrieve the next 5 upcoming events
$events = tribe_get_events( array(
	'start_date' => new DateTime(),
	'tribe_events_cat' => 'services'
) );
 
foreach ( $events as $post ) {
	setup_postdata( $post );
 
	echo '<div class="event_item">';
	echo '<div class="event_date">' . tribe_get_start_date() . '</div>';
	echo '<h4><a href='.get_the_permalink() . '>' . get_the_title() . '</a></h4>';
	echo '</div>';
} ?>

Updating to the latest version of The Events Calendar has had no effect on the problem.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Rex]

It seems that in an effort to remove comments from my code, I accidentally removed a line. Here is the corrected code:

<?php
global $post;
 
$events = tribe_get_events( array(
	'posts_per_page' => 10,
	'start_date' => new DateTime(),
	'tribe_events_cat' => 'services'
) );
 
foreach ( $events as $post ) {
	setup_postdata( $post );
 
	echo '<div class="event_item">';
	echo '<div class="event_date">' . tribe_get_start_date() . '</div>';
	echo '<h4><a href='.get_the_permalink() . '>' . get_the_title() . '</a></h4>';
	echo '</div>';
} ?>

[George]

Hey @Rex,

Thanks for posting your code here. I’m wondering if changing the ‘start_date’ argument in your use of tribe_get_events() alone might help here–try this instead of your current use of new DateTime():

'start_date' => current_time( 'Y-m-d' ),

Let me know if this helps!

George

[Rex]

YES! This fixed the problem. Thank you so much for your quick response.

Rex

[George]

Nice! Best of luck with your site 🙂

— George

[Author]

Posts