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February 19, 2014 at 3:30 am

Hi Martin,

One option would be a custom shortcode. i made this VERY basic example for someone recently, but it would need expanding on

function eecountdown($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array('event_id' => ''), $atts));
$event_id = "{$event_id}";

	global $wpdb, $espresso_manager, $current_user, $org_options;

	$sql = "SELECT * FROM " . EVENTS_DETAIL_TABLE . " WHERE id = '$event_id'";

	$event = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

//echo "<pre>" . print_r($event, 1) . "</pre>";
	$current_date = strtotime(date('Y-m-d'));
	$start_date = strtotime($event->start_date);

	$time_remaining = $start_date - $current_date;
	$time_remaining = floor($time_remaining/(60*60*24));

?>

<h2><?php echo $time_remaining; ?></h2>
<p>Days remaining until</p>
<p><?php echo $event->event_name; ?></p>
<p><?php echo apply_filters('filter_hook_espresso_display_featured_image', $event_id, !empty($event_meta['event_thumbnail_url']) ? $event_meta['event_thumbnail_url'] : '');?></p>

<p><?php echo espresso_format_content($event->event_desc); ?></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ee-3136.1.dev/event-registration/?ee=<?php echo $event_id;?>">Register Now</a>
<?php
}
add_shortcode('eecountdown','eecountdown');

If you wanted to merely expand the current widget, you could use some of the code above, along with this to add in the days/hours/minutes/seconds http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8273804/convert-seconds-into-days-hours-minutes-and-seconds

Something like

function eecountdown($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array('event_id' => ''), $atts));
$event_id = "{$event_id}";

	global $wpdb, $espresso_manager, $current_user, $org_options;

	$sql = "SELECT * FROM " . EVENTS_DETAIL_TABLE . " WHERE id = '$event_id'";

	$event = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

//echo "<pre>" . print_r($event, 1) . "</pre>";
	$current_date = strtotime(date('Y-m-d h:i:s'));
	$start_date = strtotime($event->start_date);

	$time_remaining = $start_date - $current_date;
	//$time_remaining = floor($time_remaining/(60*60*24));


	$secondsInAMinute = 60;
    $secondsInAnHour  = 60 * $secondsInAMinute;
    $secondsInADay    = 24 * $secondsInAnHour;

    // extract days
    $days = floor($time_remaining / $secondsInADay);

    // extract hours
    $hourSeconds = $time_remaining % $secondsInADay;
    $hours = floor($hourSeconds / $secondsInAnHour);

    // extract minutes
    $minuteSeconds = $hourSeconds % $secondsInAnHour;
    $minutes = floor($minuteSeconds / $secondsInAMinute);

    // extract the remaining seconds
    $remainingSeconds = $minuteSeconds % $secondsInAMinute;
    $seconds = ceil($remainingSeconds);



?>

<h2><?php //echo $time_remaining; ?></h2>

<h2><?php echo $days . ' - ' . $hours . ' - ' .  $minutes  . ' - ' . $seconds; ?></h2>


<p>Days remaining until</p>
<p><?php echo $event->event_name; ?></p>
<p><?php echo apply_filters('filter_hook_espresso_display_featured_image', $event_id, !empty($event_meta['event_thumbnail_url']) ? $event_meta['event_thumbnail_url'] : '');?></p>

<p><?php echo espresso_format_content($event->event_desc); ?></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ee-3136.1.dev/event-registration/?ee=<?php echo $event_id;?>">Register Now</a>
<?php
}
add_shortcode('eecountdown','eecountdown');

Obviously this is all just examples, if you are not well up on PHP etc then I would advise you to contact a web developer for assistance.

February 20, 2014 at 9:03 am

Is that code working for you, or are you still looking for a solution? Are you guys talking about a widget or a shortcode? (just want to clear things up, thanks)

February 24, 2014 at 11:20 am

Hi Martin,

Is there a reason why you’re not using:

echo espresso_list_of_event_dates( $event->ID(), 'D M jS, Y', '@ g:i a', FALSE );

February 25, 2014 at 5:13 am

Hi,

I cant seem to figure out how you inserted that into the widget. Can you add the full widget code to pastebin or similar service) please?

Please don’t post the full code directly into the forum.

February 26, 2014 at 5:10 am

Hi,

Thanks for that.

The date is accurate on my system so I would check your WordPress settings to make sure the date/time is accurate there.

To change the date format use

<pre class=”brush: php; gutter: true; first-line: 1; highlight: []; html-script: false”>$wp_date = get_option('date_format');
echo date($wp_date . ' H:i', strtotime( $event_details->DTT_EVT_start) );

February 27, 2014 at 6:16 am

Is there a plugin (or a function in the theme) that’s using date_default_timezone_set()? If so that may be causing the issue.

https://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/use-current_time-not-date_default_timezone_set/

February 27, 2014 at 3:53 pm

Event Espresso 4 does not use date_default_timezone_set()