daymobrew

Ok, so it’s workaround time.

I have it working as desired when I temporarily change the “Guest Default User” (under Anonymous Event Submissions) to a user that has ‘publish_events’ permissions. After calling EM_Event->save() I change back to the use that does not have ‘publish_events’ permissions.

Here is an excerpt of the modified code:

// Change anonymous submission user to allow the event be published.
$anon_user = get_option('dbem_events_anonymous_user');
update_option('dbem_events_anonymous_user', 1);  // Set to a user that can publish events.

$save_return = $EM_Event->save();

// Set back to originally set anon user.
update_option('dbem_events_anonymous_user', $anon_user);

I added the following code after the $EM_Event->save() call:

$args = array(
    'ID' => $EM_Event->post_id,
    'post_author' => $author_id,
    'post_status' => 'publish',
);
wp_update_post( $args );

It seems to have worked. I will investigate further tomorrow.

My code is run as a standalone script (using: define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false);).
So, as the user is not logged in, I think that the is_user_logged_in() check in the save() function is setting the event owner to the ‘dbem_events_anonymous_user’ setting. That user cannot publish events (for obvious reasons).

Could I change the user after it is saved and publish it via my code?

I did get further by changing the location ID to 74 (I found that ID in the EM_LOCATIONS table). With that working I changed the ‘format’ to one that would be easy for me to parse.

$args = array('location'=>74, 'scope'=>'future', 'format'=>"#_EVENTNAME|#_{Y-m-d}|#_EVENTTIMES\n", 'format_header'=>null, 'format_footer'=>null);
$venue_events = em_get_events( $args, true );
var_dump( $venue_events );

This does give me a string that I can parse (explode by “\n” and then by “|”) but an actual PHP list would be better.

The ‘array’=>1 argument still breaks things – either it is not supposed to work or is broken.
I think that the EM_Events::output() function should check that $EM_Event is an object before calling line 195:
$output .= $EM_Event->output($format);