[Plugin: Events Manager] ICAL feed per event category

You can do it by editing the ical template templates/ical.php and add a search attribute e.g. 'category'=>'7'

http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/using-template-files/
http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/event-search-attributes/

that’s great.

that’s weird, it’s working fine on my test site. Can you post the code you are using?

Hello – great plugin. Testing free version with a view to getting pro.

I have a question related to ical feeds – I can see how to create a link to an ics file – but how can I create a link to a dynamic ical feed ?

ie. si the user can subscribe to the feed in a desktop app like iCal or Lightning ?

Thank you

Joe

Sorry for the bump, but I’m trying to follow this, and I’m not sure where the category search should be added to the ical.php file.

as per smarru’s blog post, I started with getting the category id:

$uri=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$args=explode('/',$uri);

/* Get the category ID */
if($args[1]=='events' && $args[2]=='categories') { $cat_name=$args[3]; $cat_obj=get_term_by('name', $cat_name , 'event-categories'); $cat_id=$cat_obj->term_id; }

But then I’m unsure on how/where to use $cat_id there. Should it be replacing ‘event_id’ here?

if( !empty($_REQUEST['event_id']) ){
	$EM_Events = array(new EM_Event($_REQUEST['event_id']));
}else{
	$EM_Events = EM_Events::get(apply_filters('em_calendar_template_args',array('limit'=>get_option('dbem_ical_limit'), 'owner'=>false, 'orderby'=>'event_start_date', 'scope' => get_option('dbem_ical_scope') )) );
}

or should ‘category’=>$cat_id go in as part of the ‘get(apply_filters(‘ array? And is it safe to assume that this won’t replace the default, root .ics functionality, right?

Thanks for spelling it out a little more!

So to add ical feeds for categories you need to hard code in the actual category IDs into the template? On the site I am working on that wouldn’t be bad as there are only like 5.

My next question is a big one – is it possible to create a way to have ical feeds for event tags? So for instance we are wanting to tag events with the company names and then be able to display those on a company profile page and maybe even allow the company to use the ical feed on their own site.

Is this possible? We’re totally willing to fund development if so.

Thanks!

I’ve got the feeling I’m the only guy who doesn’t get it to work.. I feel Im close though; probably some syntax thing? I inserted smarru’s code into my template/ical.php as follows:

$uri=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$args=explode('/',$uri);

/* Get the category ID */
if($args[1]=='events' && $args[2]=='Kerkdiensten') {
	$cat_name=$args[3];
	$cat_obj=get_term_by('name', $cat_name , 'event-categories');
	$cat_id=$cat_obj->term_id;
}

And I altered the array by using:
$EM_Events = EM_Events::get(apply_filters('em_calendar_template_args',array( 'limit'=>get_option('dbem_ical_limit'), 'owner'=>false, 'orderby'=>'event_start_date', 'scope' => get_option('dbem_ical_scope'), 'category'=>'cat_id' )) ); at (previous) line 13, as given by Marcus.

By the way: ‘Kerkdiensten’ is the name of the category. I’m now trying to retrieve the .ICS using the link: [site]/index.php/events/Kerkdiensten/events.ics. It does not matter if I use [site]/index.php/events/Kerkdiensten//events.ics

However, this still returns all events, not just from this category. Am I overlooking something here?