tribe_create_event() EventStartDate incorrect

[jdonovan]

I have reviewed the documentation and the posts that I could find … but cannot determine why my Event Date is being recorded as “1969-12-31” … which sounds a LOT like 0000-00-00 to me.

The $args parameter I’m passing to the function is (print_r output):

Array
(
[post_title] => My Cool Event
[post_content] =>

My Cool Event Content

yada yada yada

[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => closed
[post_category] => Array
(
[0] => 6
)

[ping_status] => closed
[EventStartDate] => 2017-07-31 00:00:00
[EventEndDate] => 2017-07-31 00:00:00
[EventStartHour] => 12
[EventStartMinute] => 00
[EventStartMeridian] => am
[EventEndHour] => 12
[EventEndMinute] => 00
[EventEndMeridian] => am
[EventShowMap] => 1
[EventURL] => http://wgasc.dcpsandbox.com/wgasc-events/?eventID=250
[Venue] => Array
(
[Venue] => Aliso Niguel HS
[Address] => 28800 Wolverine Way
[City] => Aliso Viejo
[State] => CA
[Zip] => 92656
[post_status] => publish
[EventShowMap] => 1
)

[tax_input] => Array
(
[tribe_events_cat] => Array
(
[0] => 6
)

)

)

I have tried different date formats, different time values – all to no avail.

I’m pretty sure it is something simple and stupid that I’m overlooking. Please advise.

Thanks.

-john

[jdonovan]

Well – It appears that if you beat on something long enough, things will work.

I would have never guessed this was required, but it appears that the data string must be wrapped in quotes within the $args array element. Changing the elements to:

‘EventStartDate’=> “‘”.date(“Y-m-d H:i:s”, strtotime($this->showDate.” 00:00:00″)).”‘”,
‘EventEndDate’ => “‘”.date(“Y-m-d H:i:s”, strtotime($this->showDate.” 00:00:00″)).”‘”,

appears to have solved the problem.

Hopefully this level of will prevent someone from running in circles like I have for the past 3 hours.

-john

[jdonovan]

Well – that didn’t actually work after-all. The new Event Posts are being added with the current date, rather than the date defined … so I’m back to square one.

The $args array includes:

[post_status] => publish
[comment_status] => closed
[ping_status] => closed
[EventStartDate] => ‘2017-08-12 00:00:00’
[EventEndDate] => ‘2017-08-12 00:00:00’
[EventStartHour] => 12
[EventStartMinute] => 00
[EventStartMeridian] => am
[EventEndHour] => 12
[EventEndMinute] => 00
[EventEndMeridian] => am
[EventShowMap] => 1

Yet the Event Date in the new Event Post is the current date – July 28th.

This is getting really frustrating now.

Thanks for any/all help on this.
-john

[Cliff]

Hi, John. Sorry for the struggles here. Could you please provide the entire code snippet you’re using to try to create this event and also describe where you’ve implemented this / when this code runs?

[jdonovan]

This reply is private.

[Cliff]

Sounds good. If you do find a bug, feel free to open a new thread with the steps we could try to replicate it.

Thanks!

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