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Zoe E
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November 15, 2013 at 1:24 pm
Hi all, I’m creating a countdown timer for my event registration page, I need to pass the event date & time in to some JQuery in my template. I’ve tried using $start_date but can’t find the variable for calling the start time. I’ve also tried using <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[EVENT_TIME event_id=”‘.$event_id.'” type=”start_date_time” format=”Y,m,d G:i”]’); ?> but this shortcode repeats the date & time twice…
It results in “2013, 11, 29 08:00 2013, 11, 29 08:00”.
I just need the start date & time as Y,m,d G:i
Any pointers for how best to do this?
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Josh
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November 15, 2013 at 2:07 pm
Hi Zoe,
I can suggest querying the database for these. You’ll find the event start time value is stored in the _events_start_end table. This is a nice guide to getting started with writing your own custom queries using the helpful $wpdb class:
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/21/interacting-with-the-wordpress-database/
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