[EventCalendar] Display events for specific categories

Sat Nov 3 18:40:09 UTC 2007

Here is where Matthew announced his patch:

http://penguin.firetree.net/pipermail/eventcalendar/2007-October/ 
002559.html

On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Benoît Gréant wrote:

> Okay. And where can I found that mod ??
>
> 2007/11/3, firetree_ec3 at spamex.com <firetree_ec3 at spamex.com >:
> Oh, dear. I guess these were added by Matthew when he did his "big  
> page" mod. That is actually a separate branch that I don't think  
> ever made it into the main trunk.
>
> Sorry.
>
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Benoît Gréant wrote:
>
>> Ok, thanks for your reply but I don't have any filter_categories  
>> in my function :
>>
>> function ec3_get_events(
>>   $limit,
>>   $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)
>>
>> Is it something I have to add ???
>> I'm running EC3.10.
>>
>> Thanks !!!
>> Benoît
>>
>>
>> 2007/11/3, firetree_ec3 at spamex.com <firetree_ec3 at spamex.com>:
>> 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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>>>
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>> catchall account
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