[EventCalendar] ec3 with custom fields?

[David Garlitz]

Hi,

I've been trying to figure out how to incorporate a query to a post's  
custom field (i.e. $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value) in order to include  
extra information about an event (like location, or entrance fee,  
etc.). I know most solutions to this problem involve using a custom  
loop, but I'd like these custom fields to appear on the Big Calendar  
(Matthew's patch), so a custom loop won't cut it.

Any ideas about how it could be done?

Dave

On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Matthew Middleton wrote:

> That's correct, I made it sort by start date only in
> database queries done by the plugin itself.  This is
> done when returning a list of events or drawing a
> calendar.  When you use The Loop in a custom query,
> you are querying the posts rather than the events.
> (One post may have multiple events, or have no events)
>
> Stay tuned for "Big Calendar 6" - which I will
> hopefully post soon.  It will have several new
> features including recurring event support.  Since one
> post may have hundreds of recurring events, you may
> want an option for a custom query on events rather
> than posts.  I haven't implemented this feature yet,
> but I may do so in the future.  I did make some
> changes to The Loop to support posts with recurring
> events - I will provide a full changelog with the
> patch.
>
> -Matthew
>
>
> --- David Garlitz <dgarlitz at wesleyan.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mathew - Thanks for your work on Big Calendar.
>>
>> I was excited to see that one of the fixes you
>> implemented was :
>>
>> *Sort all events by event start time, not post time.
>>
>> However, I'm not getting this functionality in
>> custom queries. Have I
>> misunderstood what you mean by this? Is there
>> something missing from
>> my query? This is what I'm using in the loop:
>>
>> <?php $my_query = new WP_Query($query_string .
>> 'cat=11&showposts=2&ec3_after=today&order=ASC');
>>
>> but my posts show ordered by post date. Am I missing
>> something?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>> Dave>
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