Where are placeholders

Resolved sprinke
(@sprinke)

8 years, 2 months ago

I would like to study how Events Manager placeholders are built, but I do not know where the code is stored. Can you tell me the location of the file where the placeholders are defined?

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caimin_nwl
(@caimin_nwl)

8 years, 2 months ago

They’re a little scattered around 🙂

Many of them are found here:
/events-manager/templates/placeholders

You’ll also find them in within the class files here:
/events.manager/classes/

This may also help too:
http://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/create-a-custom-placeholder-for-event-formatting/
Thread Starter sprinke
(@sprinke)

8 years, 2 months ago
Thank you. I found the placeholder I was looking for in events-manager/classes/em-event.php.

I would like to make a custom placeholder based on #_EVENTDATES which would be exactly the same as #_EVENTDATES but 22 days before the start date. This is the code for #_EVENTDATES:
```
case '#_EVENTDATES':
	//get format of time to show
	$replace = $this->output_dates();
	break;
```
Could I do something like this?
```
case '#_EVENTREGSTART':
	//get format of time to show
	$replace = $this->date_add(output_dates(),date_interval_create_from_date_string("-22 days"));
	break;
```
Also, I read the documentation on creating a custom placeholder, and also on where to add PHP code to WordPress, but these placeholders seem to depend on so much else around them that I don’t understand how to do it.
- This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by sprinke.
caimin_nwl
(@caimin_nwl)

8 years, 2 months ago

I don’t think it’s going to work like that.

I think you may be better off using strtotime to add + 22 days to $this->date_add(output_dates().

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

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