[EventCalendar] Display events for specific categories

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Sadly, I don't know if you'll get much help from posting in the WP  
forums. I've found that well to be pretty much dry. I don't think  
I've ever gotten one single helpful response there in a couple of  
years of trying. This list is probably the best place to look.

Here's how I find out how to do these types of things. I learned this  
by trying to use the WP docs. I usually need to go to the code and  
find out for myself.

The file you want to look at is "template-functions.php".

This is where the "ec3_get_events()" function is declared:

> function ec3_get_events(
>   $limit,
>   $filter_categories = '',
>   $template_event=EC3_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_EVENT,
>   $template_day  =EC3_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_DAY,
>   $date_format   =EC3_DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT,
>   $template_month=EC3_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_MONTH,
>   $month_format  =EC3_DEFAULT_MONTH_FORMAT)

This tells me that the syntax you are using will not filter the  
category (I assume that 5 is the category?). It will display all  
categories for 5 entries.

The first parameter is a limit (the default is 5, if it is left empty  
or at 0). This is actually kinda nice, because you can specify  
something like "3 days", and you will get 3 days' worth of events,  
regardless of how many events are in there. If you just specify "3",  
then you only get the next 3 events.

The FOLLOWING parameter is the filter categories, so you need to  
specify something in the $limit parameter, even if it is '' or null.

So, say you wanted 2 days' worth of events in categories 3 and 5, the  
query would be thus:

ec3_get_events('2 days', '3,5');

or the default (5 events) for the same two categories:

ec3_get_events('', '3,5');

I hope this helps. I don't actually do this myself (yet), so Alex can  
correct any mistakes I may have made.

Chris
On Nov 3, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Benoît Gréant wrote:

> Hello, I still can't limit the query to a specific category...
> Could you explain please ???
> I made a post here : http://wordpress.org/support/topic/141146? 
> replies=3
>
> 2007/10/31, Benoît Gréant <gordie.lachance at gmail.com>:
> Hi Alex, OK but I don't understand how to do this.
> Here is my actual code in the sidebar
>
> <?php ec3_get_events(5); ?>
>
> I would like, for example, restrict the events to the cat#3.
>
> Thanks !
>
> 2007/10/31, Alex Tingle < alex at firetree.net>:
>
> On 31 Oct 2007, at 12:20, Benoît Gréant wrote:
>
> > Hello, is it possible to display in my template only events in the
> > current
> > category ?
>
> Use a custom query, with something like... ec3_after=today&cat=3
>
> -Alex
>
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