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Dean
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September 13, 2013 at 2:53 am
Hi Anton,
This hasn’t been included as a feature just yet, but yes it is something we are thinking about. I doubt it will be looked to though until we have version 4 released and settled, so it will be into 2014.
While I don’t know your specific needs, if you are just wanting to display sponsors on the event registration page, have you considered using the Staff/Speakers system? This will allow you to add details and logos etc and using a shortcode display it wherever you need it.
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Anton Samper Rivaya
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September 13, 2013 at 3:26 am
Hiya Dean,
Thanks for the update.
I havent thought about doing it that way but it sounds like it could be implemented with the staff speaker system (potentially). I guess the key is the payment.
By using the staff/speaker system. How would that work? Can a member of staff sign themselves up to an event, upload their logo and details and then pay X amount (sponsorship)?
And would i then be able to add the shortcode to the page so that every time there is a sponsor, their details are displayed automatically?
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Dean
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September 13, 2013 at 3:37 am
Hi,
Well it would be a little bit more manual work, but the way I am thinking is this:
Set up an Ongoing event to take the purchases, you will be able to use custom questions to gather data and will be notified of the registration.
The only downside is we don’t have file uploads, but they could link to an online copy of the logo.
If needed you could also use Gravity Forms Developer Licence to do it as well, which would take it out of the Event Espresso loop, but does provide file upload functionality.
Then if they arent not in the system already I would set them up as staff/speaker.
After that or if they are already in the system, just add the staff shortcode to the event description or post/page, depending on where you are displaying it https://eventespresso.com/wiki/shortcodes-template-variables/#staff
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Anton Samper Rivaya
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September 13, 2013 at 5:41 am
I have Gravity forms so I could use the User Registration plugin to create a new ‘staff’ user account with their uploaded image and details, ask them to pay and then once the payment has gone through, i’ll run a hook that links the user to a specific event as a staff member. That sounds like it should work. What do you think?
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Dean
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September 13, 2013 at 5:53 am
Sounds good, not sure if there is a hook in EE for that though so might need to run an SQL function to mark them in the database (events_personnel_rel and events_personnel)
But not sure how that will help as you still need to add in the shortcode to the event unless you are adding it to a page.
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/event-espresso-3-1-action-hooks/
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/event-espresso-3-1-filters/
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Anton Samper Rivaya
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September 13, 2013 at 6:08 am
Running an SQL command to link them up wont be a problem.
In regards to the staff shortcode though, i was thinking i could just add the shortcode to the template file so all events will have the staff shortcode in and could wrap it in an ‘if’ statement to check if there are any ‘staff’ in this event. I think that would work. I havent worked with EE before though so i dont know if i’m forgetting anything. I presume there is an events templates?
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Dean
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September 13, 2013 at 6:45 am
Yes, there are a few, but registration_page.php and registration_page_display.php are the ones to look for. You can copy (both, thats important) to the wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates directory and edit them there, it will stop updates over writing your changes.
And yes that sounds like a good idea, using this I presume? If so it should just list them if there are staff for that event, no if statement needed.
<?php echo do_shortcode('[ESPRESSO_STAFF event_id="' . $event_id . '"]'); ?>
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Anton Samper Rivaya
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September 13, 2013 at 7:17 am
Ah perfect, ok yeah something like that, sounds like EE will be perfect for what i need with a little bit of extra development.
Thanks Dean
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