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September 7, 2015 at 8:43 am

Awesome! I’m glad the models worked for you.

I have a couple of pointers for your code, first one is a quick one:

current_time() is missing its 1st aregument for type, use – current_time(‘timestamp’, true)

Your also repeating yourself a few times and pulling information that you can get from the models.

Try this:

$events = EEM_Event::instance()->get_all(
	array(
		array(
			'Term_Taxonomy.Term.term_id' => 16, 
			'Datetime.DTT_EVT_start' => array( '>', current_time('timestamp', true))),
			'order_by' => array( 'Datetime.DTT_EVT_start' => 'ASC' )
		)	
);

		
foreach( $events as $event ) {
	echo $event->name()."
";

	//d($event);

	//Grab the primary datetime from the event.
	$datetime = $event->primary_datetime();

	//Check we got an EE Datetime.
	if( $datetime instanceof EE_Datetime ) {

		echo "start date and time = " . $datetime->start_date_and_time();
		
		//d($datetime);

		//Grab all tickets for the event
		$tickets = $datetime->tickets();

		//Shift the first ticket from the returned array
		//This works as there is only one ticket, if you need a specific ticket,
		//use another method to either pull that or all tickets and loop through.
		$ticket = reset( $tickets );

		//Check we did actually get a EE Ticket
		if( $ticket instanceof EE_Ticket ) {
			d($ticket);

			echo '';
					
			echo "ticket sales open = ".$ticket->start_date();
					
			echo '';
					
			echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $event->ID(), 'cinema-landing');
		}
	}
}

Notice the debugging sections I currently have commented out? That’s using Kint (which is awesome!) you might want to install Kint using something like:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/kint-php-debugger/

Then un-comment out one of those lines (or all of them) and view the kind of information you can pull with the models. For example on the ticket object you have the start_date() method which does all the work for you, there is 160 different methods on the ticket alone, so you’ll usually find a method to get what you want – http://take.ms/LyChf

I removed the ID variables and just used the object directly, and also added in some instance checks to make sure we did not try to run methods if nothing is returned.

There’s nothing wrong with the code you posted btw! It works just fine (assuming you always have one datetime and ticket) but the above just does more of the work for you 🙂

• This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by  Tony. Reason: Updated datetime code