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August 30, 2013 at 3:38 pm
I’m currently using this to get a list of associated categories for my event listings:
[code language=”php”] $programs_string = do_shortcode(‘[CATEGORY_NAME event_id=”‘.$event_id.'”]’);
$programs_array = explode(‘,’, $programs_string );[/code]
This would usually work great, except that some of my categories have commas in them, so using a comma delimiter is not going to work in this case. Is there a more direct public function that I can use to get an array of categories, not a string?
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Josh
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August 30, 2013 at 5:30 pm
Hi Deborah,
I checked and couldn’t find a more direct public function that outputs an array of categories.
I may not be understanding the issue completely, but will it work to use a pipe ( | ) as the delimiter?
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September 3, 2013 at 11:49 am
Hi Josh, actually that is what I ended up doing. I had to modify a core function though :(. Here is what I did:
On line 850 of the event-espresso/includes/functions/main.php
[code language=”php”]$category_data[‘category_name’] .= $result->category_name . ‘|’;[/code]
In replacing the comma with a pipe, I was able to successfully use the php explode() function to get a true array of categories, including those with commas in them.
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