events app question - display date sensitive detail

    Hi, using events app archive display - user has list of 'upcoming' and 'past' events. Is it possible that the event detail showing for an event can be different for a 'past' event than that showing when 'upcoming'?


    I ask because we may have an 'upcoming' race event - shows entry details etc. When race is 'past' we would like to show results, not entry details.


    I am guessing this could be done with some clever editing of the event-detail.html template to filter the upcoming and past descriptions


    Any ideas gratefully received, thanks.


    <div class="vevent">

    <h2 class="summary"><perch:events id="eventTitle" /></h2>


    <p class="dtstart"><span class="value-title" title="<perch:events id="eventDateTime" format="l, jS F Y g:i a" />"><perch:events id="eventDateTime" format="%c" /></span></p>


    <div class="description"><perch:events id="eventFutureDescHTML" type="textarea" editor="redactor" encode="false" /></div>


    <div class="description"><perch:events id="eventPastDescHTML" type="textarea" editor="redactor" encode="false" /></div>


    <p class="category"><perch:events id="category_names" encode="false" /></p>


    <perch:if exists="image">

    <img src="<perch:events id="image" type="image" label="Image" width="640" crop="true" />" alt="<perch:events id="eventTitle" />" />

    </perch:if>


    </div>

    Something like this should work, where today is a passed in data variable. Using U for the format will convert them to Seconds since the Unix Epoch for a better comparison.

    Code
    1. <perch:if id="eventDateTime" match="lt" value="{today}" format-both="U">
    2.     <perch:template path="events/past">
    3. <perch:else/>
    4. <perch:template path="events/future">
    5. </perc:if>

    Thanks Byron, that looks nice and effective. Where would I use that? In the archive.php page? or somewhere else


    <h2>Past events</h2>


    <?php

    perch_events_custom(array(

    'category' => perch_get('cat'),

    'filter' => 'eventDateTime',

    'match' => 'lt',

    'value' => date('Y-m-d'),

    'sort' => 'eventDateTime',

    'sort-order' => 'desc',

    'template' => 'listing/custom-listing-day.html'

    ));

    ?>

    Ah sorry I misread the question, thought it was for single event pages not the archive. You'll probably want to make to perch_events_custom calls, one for future events and one for past events. Then just swap the templates you are using.

    If you want to combine it all together in one perch_event_custom call you can use my previous code in the listing/custom-listing-day file like follows. Where the future template shows your current template and your future template will show the results

    So the above will show listing of events sorted by future and past


    For an individual event, how to filter to display future or past content?


    current event page


    <?php

    perch_events_custom(array(

    'filter'=>'eventSlug',

    'match'=>'eq',

    'value'=>perch_get('s'),

    'template'=>'listing/event-detail.html'

    ));

    ?>

    Your event detail html template should look something like this

    Then your detail php page should look something like this

    PHP
    1. <?php
    2. // Sets a global variable today so we can use in the perch template
    3. PerchSystem::set_var('today', date('Y-m-d'));
    5. perch_events_custom([
    6. 'filter'=>'eventSlug',
    7. 'match'=>'eq',
    8. 'value'=>perch_get('s'),
    9. 'template'=>'listing/event-detail.html'
    10. ]);

    Hi Byron, sorry to keep plundering your brain! last question, honest. So I can get to do most what i need but as the event.php is the only page that actually can display an event detail (because all events in a list point to the single "eventURL" as defined in settings for events) I need something in event.php that uses template event-detail.html for future events and template event-result.html for past events


    so in event.php we currently have


    <?php


    perch_events_custom(array(

    'filter'=>'eventSlug',

    'match'=>'eq',

    'value'=>perch_get('s'),

    'template'=>'listing/event-detail.html'

    ));

    ?>


    is there a conditional statement that can go in there to make the selction of templates? thanks for your help as always!

    There is no easy way to set a conditional in that manner. You could use skip-template => true then check the date of the returned event and then user perch_template() to output the right template, though you'll need to use the perch:content namespace if you approach this way. So you might do something like this.



    It would be easier and cleaner to use perch:if tags in the template to then include either layouts or templates to get the desired result, like in my previous examples.

    Code
    1. <perch:if id="eventDateTime" match="lt" value="{today}" format-both="U">
    2. <perch:template path="events/past-detail">
    3. <perch:else/>
    4. <perch:template path="events/future-detail">
    5. </perc:if>


    Lastly you could run two queries, using a date filter as well. This works as the template is not shown if no event is found. I wouldn't recommend this though as you are making two calls to the database instead of one.