Countdown to next event

[Anonymous]

I would like to add a countdown for the next event

e.g. “14 days, 16 hour, 35 minutes up to the next gig”

Any ideas, how to solve this?

[Franky]

For the moment this requires own coding: call the api function:

eme_get_events(1);

and play with the result.

[Anonymous]

I’ve played a little bit but have the problem that i cant get the Date from the next event. Maybe it helps someone to finish a counter function. In my functions.php i’ve add this:

/**

* Filter to enable Shortcodes from Sidebars (Use only if you need it)

*/

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

if( function_exists( 'date_default_timezone_set' ) )

{

// Set the default timezone http://www.php.net/manual/de/timezones.php

date_default_timezone_set( 'Europe/Berlin' );

}

if ( ! function_exists( 'counter' ) ) :

/**

* Shortcode for the eme-plugin that count days to event

*

* Usage [counter]

*/

function counter()

{

function count_days( $a, $b )

{

// function found at http://snipplr.com/view/2223/get-number-of-days-between-two-dates/

// First we need to break these dates into their constituent parts:

$gd_a = getdate( $a );

$gd_b = getdate( $b );

// Now recreate these timestamps, based upon noon on each day

// The specific time doesn't matter but it must be the same each day

$a_new = mktime( 12, 0, 0, $gd_a, $gd_a, $gd_a );

$b_new = mktime( 12, 0, 0, $gd_b, $gd_b, $gd_b );

// Subtract these two numbers and divide by the number of seconds in a

// day. Round the result since crossing over a daylight savings time

// barrier will cause this time to be off by an hour or two.

return round( abs( $a_new - $b_new ) / 86400 );

}

// Date from Now

$inicial = date("Y-m-d");

// Date from Event wont work now :-(

$fin = eme_get_event("limit=1&scope=future&format=#Y-#m-#d");

// this will work fine

//$fin = date("2011-08-03");

// Timestamps for the Dates

$now = strtotime("$inicial");

$event = strtotime(stripslashes("$fin"));

// Count Days between Dates

$days = count_days( $now, $event );

// Return pure Number of Days

return $days;

}

add_shortcode('counter', 'counter');

endif;

I have Use in the Widget “Events List” the Shortcode [counter] where i want to place the Number of Days.

[Franky]

I created the function eme_daydifference in trunk. Your counter function would become (you used eme_get_event, it should be eme_get_events(1) like I mentioned before. I added this to trunk, so it will be in the next version:

# return number of days to next event, or to the specified event ID

function eme_countdown() {

extract ( shortcode_atts ( array ('id'=>''), $atts ) );



$now = date("Y-m-d");

if ($id!="") {

$event=eme_get_event($id);

} else {

$newest_event_array=eme_get_events(1);

$event=$newest_event_array[0];

}

$end_date=$event['event_start_date'];

return eme_daydifference($now,$end_date);

}

add_shortcode('events_countdown', 'eme_countdown');

Btw: the “add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);” is not needed: it’s an option in EME that you can activate.

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