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December 19, 2014 at 11:36 am

Hi Michael,

Try this:

https://gist.github.com/lorenzocaum/ac217033f12232404cce#comment-1359588

There are also other variations further up the page.

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Lorenzo

December 23, 2014 at 8:46 am

Hi,

The date *can* be changed but it would be a template edit, which we don’t recommend as updates will over write the changes.

If that’s ok, edit /wp-content/plugins/eea-events-table-view-template/templates/espresso-events-table-template.template.php and on line 99 replace

$startdat = $datetime->start_date_and_time();

with

$startdat = $datetime->start_date_and_time($dt_frmt = 'd m', $tm_format = NULL );

Obviously the ‘d m’ would need to be changed to the correct date format you want: http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php

“How can I have a message appear when there is no event with the given parameters of the table view.”

It should display the “no content” template part. Can you provide the shortcode and parameters you are using and a brief mention of how the events are set up, I’d like to see why the message isn’t showing for you.

December 29, 2014 at 8:43 pm

Hi there,

Yes, if you’re using Lorenzo’s suggested method, changing the variables in Dean’s suggestion will not change the date output. This is because Lorenzo’s method doesn’t use $startdat = $datetime->start_date_and_time();

To get your desired date output, you’ll need to 1) add end dates to the loop where it grabs dates for each event and 2) change the date format where the date is output.

Please start with a fresh copy of the table template because the following directions will not work if you’re starting with Dean and Lorenzo’s modifictions.

1) add the end date to the loop:

foreach ( $datetimes as $datetime ) {
  $startdat = $datetime->start_date_and_time();
  $enddat = $datetime->end_date_and_time(); // <-- end date
}

2) Change the date output so that it includes a start date, a separator, end date, and uses the desired formatting:

<td class="start_date event-<?php echo $post->ID; ?>" 
  data-value="<?php echo strtotime( $startdat ); ?>">
<?php echo date_i18n( 'F j', strtotime( $startdat ) ) // <-- start date
  . ' - ' // <-- separator
  . date_i18n( 'F j, Y', strtotime( $enddat )); // <-- end date 
?>
</td>

Then, to add a message for when there are no upcoming events listed, you add your messageafter the line near the bottom of the template that says else :. The else means “If there are no events, then do this”. Here’s an example of what you can add:

echo '<h4>No events scheduled</h4>';