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1. Stewart Barklem
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Upgraded to 5.3 and placeholders e.g #_LOCATIONNAME stopped working in the body of the event. So in the Single Event Settings I have ...
   <p>#_NOTES</p>
   
   <p>#_LOCATIONNAME
   #_LOCATIONADDRESS</p>
   .. and these display, but if I put these in the body of the event they now don't display and I get #_LOCATIONNAME instead.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/

2. agelonwl
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Hi,

   I get this too however this might not be a bug since it's working in events > formatting and/or emails but I've let Marcus know about it.

3. Marcus
   NetWebLogic Support
   Plugin Author
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   This is due to a recent change/fix to how placeholders are used in the description of an event. since you can use shortcodes combined with placeholders, placeholders on there aren't converted anymore since 5.3, only if within shortcode.

   Here's a snippet to enable placeholders on your descriptions if needed (note that using ph's in shorcode may not work properly with this)

   /**
    * Parses the event description to convert placeholders
    * @param string $result
    * @param EM_Event $EM_Event
    * @param string $placeholder
    * @param string $target
    * @return string
    */
   function my_em_event_output_placeholder($result,$EM_Event,$placeholder,$target='html'){
   	if( in_array($placeholder, array('#_EVENTNOTES','#_NOTES','#_DESCRIPTION','#_LOCATIONNOTES','#_CATEGORYNOTES')) ){
   		$result = $EM_Event->output($result);
   	}
   	return $result;
   }
   add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder','my_em_event_output_placeholder',10,4);

4. Marcus
   NetWebLogic Support
   Plugin Author
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   paste this into your themes functions.php file

5. Stewart Barklem
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Thanks for this, very helpful I now understand this. It’s good that my own shortcodes work in events.
   As I don’t need to do this very often I have decided to get round this by just putting the placeholders in a shortcode. So I have used ..
   [locations_list]ID=#_LOCATIONID Name=#_LOCATIONLINK[/locations_list]
   .. to find out the locationID and then used something like …
   [location location=4]#_LOCATIONMAP[/location]

6. Marcus
   NetWebLogic Support
   Plugin Author
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   better yet, I'm going to add in the upcoming update an option to just use

   [location] or [event] within a location/event description and it'll default to the current location/event if you don't supply an ID number.

7. Stewart Barklem
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Excellent!

8. Stewart Barklem
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Still a slight niggle with this. In the list view the placeholders are interpreted correctly but the [event]… [/event] tags are still there!

9. Marcus
   NetWebLogic Support
   Plugin Author
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   will look into that. in the meantime you could try adding this line:

   add_filter('dbem_notes', 'do_shortcode');

   not ideal but may do what you need for now.

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