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February 27, 2018 at 2:48 pm

Hi

My clients has some private events and also uses hidden private events to handle overspill.

We have an upcoming schedule table that shows events where post_status = published or sold_out as we still like to show the sold out events as those booked on to them can click to see location details etc.

We’ve just noticed that when the last ticket sells on a private event then EE changes the post_status from private to sold_out, causing our private events to show in our public website schedule.

I did some digging and found that EE stores the old post_status in the postmeta table with a key of “_previous_event_status” so I have now added an extra check to my php so when is iterates through the results it says

if($previous_event_status == “private” && $currentEventStatus == “sold_out”) {

//dont show table row } else {
//yes display this event
}

This seems to work for me but just wondering if I’m making extra work for myself and is there a simpler way to ignore/hide private events when pulling events from SQL

This feels like a bit of a bug that EE overrides the private status like this?

Thanks
JOnathan