{"id":64343,"date":"2013-09-03T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/get-event-id-from-within-a-function-for-acf-field-retrieval\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:27:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:27:39","slug":"get-event-id-from-within-a-function-for-acf-field-retrieval","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/get-event-id-from-within-a-function-for-acf-field-retrieval\/","title":{"rendered":"Get event ID from within a function for ACF field retrieval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently using TEC Pro on a site that is heavily dependent on Advanced Custom Fields. I have used it to add some meta data to the tribe_events post type (along with all the standard WP post types) but unfortunately, I can&#8217;t use the get_field function as I normally do EVERYWHERE else.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that TEC uses a post ID of -9999 which is clearly the cause of this function returning false. Declaring the global $post variable and accessing the $post-&gt;ID just returns the -9999 instead of the event ID &#8211; strange way to create a WordPress plugin, guys.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I need to know how to get the event ID from within a function. My WP templates don&#8217;t contain code, they simply call a series of functions which handle the markup, but it seems that the tribe_ Template tags are useless from within functions.<\/p>\n<p>1. How do I get the event ID from within a function?<br \/>\n2. How can I use TEC template tags (functions) from within my own functions?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing there is either a global variable I need to declare or a class I need to instantiate.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-64343","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Get event ID from within a function for ACF field retrieval -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/get-event-id-from-within-a-function-for-acf-field-retrieval\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Get event ID from within a function for ACF field retrieval -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi there I&#8217;m currently using TEC Pro on a site that is heavily dependent on Advanced Custom Fields. 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