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January 29, 2014 at 5:58 am

Hi Yannis,

What date format are you using in the WordPress General settings and also in the event itself?

January 29, 2014 at 12:05 pm

When you hover over the iCal link, can you see the startyear, startmonth, startday, and starttime in the request? Are they correct there?

January 30, 2014 at 10:19 am

That is a really strange issue. Everything looks correct, but it seems like the dates are getting removed from ics link.

Can you please post a list of installed plugins?

January 30, 2014 at 2:24 pm

do you know if you have php version greater that 5.3.0? Look under EE->System Status->Server Environment.

January 31, 2014 at 11:08 am

Excellent, then this code should work.

You can add this code to one of the following:
1 – Your theme’s functions.php file. It may get overwritten the next time you update your theme.
2 – The EE custom files add-on in the custom_functions.php file.
3 – Use this blank plugin to hold the custom function.

February 4, 2014 at 11:25 am

That’s really strange. Looks like it’s not creating the DateTime object. Can you try this:

function espresso_ical_prepare_by_meta($meta, $title = '', $image = '', $link_only = FALSE) {
 var_dump($meta['start_date']);
 var_dump($meta['start_time']);
}

You can just put it in, grab the output it generates where the ical link was, and then take it out. It should give us a clue about why it is not creating the DateTime object.

February 19, 2014 at 1:29 pm

I see what’s going on now. The date is getting run through date format AND i18n before it gets added to the meta data that gets passed to the iCal function. Can you make a copy of event_list.php and registration_page.php from plugins/event-espresso/templates into uploads/espresso/templates? In event_list.php you want to change these two lines (375 and 376 in the copy I’m looking at):

'start_date' => event_date_display($start_date, get_option('date_format')),
					'end_date' => event_date_display($end_date, get_option('date_format')),

to:

'start_date' => date($start_date, get_option('date_format')),
					'end_date' => date($end_date, get_option('date_format')),

similarly in registration_page.php (lines 213 and 214) from:

'start_date'			=> event_espresso_no_format_date($start_date, get_option('date_format')),
                'end_date'				=> event_date_display($end_date, get_option('date_format')),

to:

'start_date'			=> date($start_date, get_option('date_format')),
                'end_date'				=> date($end_date, get_option('date_format')),

February 20, 2014 at 9:37 am

It may be easier for us to debug it in place on your server, rather than going back and forth like this. Can you fill out the form here and be sure to include ftp (or ssh) credentials for debugging purposes. While we cannot guarantee priority without the purchase of a support token, I will certainly take a look.

February 28, 2014 at 3:19 pm

Sorry, I never got login credentials from Yanis to take a look. Have you done any of the debugging steps we went through?
Looking back on that last error message, and then looking at the code, I can see that we were supposed to tell you to copy event_list_display.php and registration_page_display.php into the uploads/espresso/templates folder as well as the two that I listed.

March 3, 2014 at 10:01 pm

Thanks for the update!