[EventCalendar] Re: ec3 with custom fields solved

[David Garlitz]

Well, I figured it out pretty quickly, actually. If anyone is  
interested in the custom fields solution, let me know...

Dave


On Mar 10, 2008, at 11:17 AM, David Garlitz wrote:

> 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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