tribe_get_event( null|int|WP_Post $event = null, string|null $output = OBJECT, string $filter = 'raw', bool $force = false )

Fetches and returns a decorated post object representing an Event.


Parameters

$event

(null|int|WP_Post) (Optional) The event ID or post object or null to use the global one.

Default value: null

$output

(string|null) (Optional) The required return type. One of OBJECT, ARRAY_A, or ARRAY_N, which correspond to a WP_Post object, an associative array, or a numeric array, respectively. Defaults to OBJECT.

Default value: OBJECT

$filter

(string) (Optional) Type of filter to apply. Accepts 'raw', a valid date string or object to localize the event in a specific time-frame.

Default value: 'raw'

$force

(bool) (Optional) Whether to force a re-fetch ignoring cached results or not.

Default value: false


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Return

(array|mixed|void|WP_Post|null) The Event post object or array, null if not found.

  • 'start_date'
    (string) The event start date, in Y-m-d H:i:s format.
  • 'start_date_utc'
    (string) The event UTC start date, in Y-m-d H:i:s format.
  • 'end_date'
    (string) The event end date, in Y-m-d H:i:s format.
  • 'end_date_utc'
    (string) The event UTC end date, in Y-m-d H:i:s format.
  • 'dates'
    (array) An array containing the event.start, end and UTC date objects. {
  • 'start'
    (DateTimeImmutable) The event start date object.
  • 'start_utc'
    (DateTimeImmutable) The event UTC start date object.
  • 'end'
    (DateTimeImmutable) The event end date object.
  • 'end_utc'
    (DateTimeImmutable) The event UTC end date object.
  • 'start_site'
    (DateTimeImmutable) The event start date object in the site timezone.
  • 'end_site'
    (DateTimeImmutable) The event end date object in the site timezone.
  • 'start_display'
    (DateTimeImmutable) The event start date object in the site or event timezone depending on the setting.
  • 'end_display'
    (DateTimeImmutable) The event end date object in the site or event timezone depending on the setting.
  • 'timezone'
    (string) The event timezone string.
  • 'duration'
    (int) The event duration in seconds.
  • 'multiday'
    (false|int) Whether the event is multi-day or not and its day. duration if it is.
  • 'all_day'
    (bool) Whether the event is an all-day one or not.
  • 'starts_this_week'
    (null|bool) Whether the event starts on the week of the date specified in the $filter argument or not, null if no date is specified in the filter.
  • 'ends_this_week'
    (null|bool) Whether the event ends on the week of the date specified in the $filter argument or not, null if no date is specified in the filter.
  • 'happens_this_week'
    (null|bool) Whether the event happens on the week of the date specified in the $filter argument or not, null if no date is specified in the filter.
  • 'this_week_duration'
    (null|int) The days duration of the event on the week specified in the $filter argument, null if no date is specified in the filter.
  • 'featured'
    (bool) Whether the event is a featured one or not.
  • 'cost'
    (string) The event formatted cost string, as returned by the tribe_get_cost tribe_get_cost function.
  • 'organizers'
    (Lazy_Collection) A collection of Organizers, lazily fetched and eventually resolved to an array.
  • 'venues'
    (Lazy_Collection) A collection of Venues, lazily fetched and eventually resolved to an array.
  • 'thumbnail'
    (Post_Thumbnail) The post thumbnail information.
  • 'schedule_details'
    (Lazy_String) The event schedule details, as produced by the tribe_events_event_schedule_details function.
  • 'plain_schedule_details'
    (Lazy_String) The event schedule details, without HTML tags.

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    Source

    File: src/functions/template-tags/event.php

    	function tribe_get_event( $event = null, $output = OBJECT, $filter = 'raw' ) {
    		/**
    		 * Filters the event result before any logic applies.
    		 *
    		 * Returning a non `null` value here will short-circuit the function and return the value.
    		 * Note: this value will not be cached and the caching of this value is a duty left to the filtering function.
    		 *
    		 * @since 4.9.7
    		 *
    		 * @param mixed       $return      The event object to return.
    		 * @param mixed       $event       The event object to fetch.
    		 * @param string|null $output      The required return type. One of OBJECT, ARRAY_A, or ARRAY_N, which
    		 *                                 correspond to a `WP_Post` object, an associative array, or a numeric array,
    		 *                                 respectively. Defaults to `OBJECT`.
    		 * @param string      $filter      Type of filter to apply. Accepts 'raw', a valid date string or
    		 *                                 object to localize the event in a specific time-frame.
    		 */
    		$return = apply_filters( 'tribe_get_event_before', null, $event, $output, $filter );
    
    		if ( null !== $return ) {
    			return $return;
    		}
    
    		$post = get_post( $event );
    
    		if ( ! $post instanceof WP_Post ) {
    			return null;
    		}
    
    		// Cache by post ID and filter.
    		$cache_key = 'events_' . $post->ID . '_' . $filter;
    		$cache     = new Tribe__Cache();
    		$cached    = $cache->get( $cache_key, Tribe__Cache_Listener::TRIGGER_SAVE_POST );
    
    		// Define a function to cache this event when, and if, one of the lazy properties is loaded.
    		$cache_this = static function () use ( $cache, $cache_key, $post ) {
    			/*
    			 * Cache without expiration, but only until a post of the types managed by The Events Calendar is
    			 * updated or created.
    			 */
    			$cache->set( $cache_key, $post, 0, Tribe__Cache_Listener::TRIGGER_SAVE_POST );
    		};
    
    		if ( false !== $cached ) {
    			switch ( $output ) {
    				case ARRAY_A:
    					return (array) $cached;
    				case ARRAY_N:
    					return array_values( (array) $cached );
    				case OBJECT:
    				default;
    					return $cached;
    			}
    		}
    
    		$post_id         = $post->ID;
    		$start_date      = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_EventStartDate', true );
    		$start_date_utc  = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_EventStartDateUTC', true );
    		$end_date        = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_EventEndDate', true );
    		$end_date_utc    = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_EventEndDateUTC', true );
    		$duration        = (int) get_post_meta( $post_id, '_EventDuration', true );
    		$timezone_string = Timezones::get_event_timezone_string( $post_id );
    		$all_day         = tribe_is_truthy( get_post_meta( $post_id, '_EventAllDay', true ) );
    
    		// An event is multi-day if its end date is after the end-of-day cutoff of the start date.
    		$end_of_day        = tribe_end_of_day( $start_date );
    		$timezone          = Timezones::build_timezone_object( $timezone_string );
    		$utc_timezone = new DateTimezone('UTC');
    		$start_date_object = new DateTimeImmutable( $start_date, $timezone );
    		$end_date_object = new DateTimeImmutable( $end_date, $timezone );
    		$start_date_utc_object = new DateTimeImmutable( $start_date_utc, $utc_timezone );
    		$end_date_utc_object = new DateTimeImmutable( $end_date_utc, $utc_timezone );
    		$end_of_day_object = new DateTimeImmutable( $end_of_day, $timezone );
    		$is_multiday       = $end_of_day_object < $end_date_object;
    		$multiday          = false;
    		// Without a context these values will not make sense; we'll set them if the `$filter` argument is a date.
    		$starts_this_week   = null;
    		$ends_this_week     = null;
    		$happens_this_week  = null;
    		$this_week_duration = null;
    		if ( Dates::is_valid_date( $filter ) ) {
    			$week_start = Dates::build_date_object( $filter, $timezone );
    			// Sunday is 0.
    			$week_start_day = (int) get_option( 'start_of_week' );
    			$offset         = (int) $week_start->format( 'N' ) >= $week_start_day
    				? $week_start_day
    				: $week_start->format( 'N' ) - $week_start_day;
    
    			$week_start->setISODate( (int) $week_start->format( 'o' ), (int) $week_start->format( 'W' ), $offset );
    			$week_end = clone $week_start;
    			// 7 days later the week ends.
    			$week_end->add( new DateInterval( 'P7D' ) );
    			// Inclusive in respect to the start, exclusive to the end.
    			$starts_this_week   = $week_start <= $start_date_object && $start_date_object < $week_end;
    			$ends_this_week     = $week_start <= $end_date_object && $end_date_object < $week_end;
    			$happens_this_week = $week_start <= $end_date_object && $start_date_object <= $week_end;
    			if ( $happens_this_week ) {
    				$this_week_duration = 1;
    				if ( $is_multiday ) {
    					/*
    					 * We add one second during this calculation to cope with all-day events starting on 12:00 AM.
    					 * Due to how DateTime diff works diffing two following midnights would yield a diff of 2 days.
    					 */
    					$one_second = new \DateInterval( 'PT1S' );
    
    					$this_week_duration = min(
    						7,
    						$week_end->diff( $start_date_object->add( $one_second ) )->days + 1,
    						$end_date_object->diff( $week_start )->days + 1,
    						$end_date_object->diff( $start_date_object->add( $one_second ) )->days + 1
    					);
    				}
    			}
    		}
    		// Multi-day events will span at least two days: the day they start on and the following one.
    		if ( $is_multiday ) {
    			/*
    			 * Count the number of cut-offs happening before the end date and add 1.
    			 * Do not add 1 for all-day events as they span cut-off to cut-off.
    			 */
    			$multiday = $all_day ? 0 : 1;
    			$one_day  = new DateInterval( 'P1D' );
    			// The end date should be inclusive, since it's not in the DatePeriod we work-around it adding a second.
    			$period = new DatePeriod( $end_of_day_object, $one_day, $end_date_object );
    			foreach ( $period as $date ) {
    				++ $multiday;
    			};
    		}
    		$featured = tribe_is_truthy( get_post_meta( $post_id, Tribe__Events__Featured_Events::FEATURED_EVENT_KEY, true ) );
    
    		$organizer_fetch = Tribe__Events__Organizer::get_fetch_callback( $post_id );
    		$venue_fetch     = Tribe__Events__Venue::get_fetch_callback( $post_id );
    
    		$properties = [
    			'start_date'         => $start_date,
    			'start_date_utc'     => $start_date_utc,
    			'end_date'           => $end_date,
    			'end_date_utc'       => $end_date_utc,
    			'dates'              => (object) [
    				'start'     => $start_date_object,
    				'start_utc' => $start_date_utc_object,
    				'end'       => $end_date_object,
    				'end_utc'   => $end_date_utc_object,
    			],
    			'timezone'           => $timezone_string,
    			'duration'           => $duration,
    			'multiday'           => $multiday,
    			'all_day'            => $all_day,
    			'starts_this_week'   => $starts_this_week,
    			'ends_this_week'     => $ends_this_week,
    			'this_week_duration' => $this_week_duration,
    			'happens_this_week'  => $happens_this_week,
    			'featured'           => $featured,
    			'cost'               => tribe_get_cost( $post_id ),
    			'organizers'         => ( new Lazy_Collection( $organizer_fetch ) )->on_resolve( $cache_this ),
    			'venues'             => ( new Lazy_Collection( $venue_fetch ) )->on_resolve( $cache_this ),
    			'thumbnail'          => ( new Post_Thumbnail( $post_id ) )->on_resolve( $cache_this ),
    			'permalink'          => get_permalink( $post_id ),
    			'schedule_details'   => ( new Lazy_String(
    				static function () use ( $post_id ) {
    					return tribe_events_event_schedule_details( $post_id );
    				},
    				false
    			) )->on_resolve( $cache_this )
    		];
    
    		foreach ( $properties as $key => $value ) {
    			$post->{$key} = $value;
    		}
    
    		/**
    		 * Filters the event post object before caching it and returning it.
    		 *
    		 * Note: this value will be cached; as such this filter might not run on each request.
    		 * If you need to filter the output value on each call of this function then use the `tribe_get_event_before`
    		 * filter.
    		 *
    		 * @since 4.9.7
    		 *
    		 * @param WP_Post $post   The event post object, decorated with a set of custom properties.
    		 * @param string  $output The output format to use.
    		 * @param string  $filter The filter, or context of the fetch.
    		 */
    		$post = apply_filters( 'tribe_get_event', $post, $output, $filter );
    
    		if ( OBJECT !== $output ) {
    			$post = ARRAY_A === $output ? (array) $post : array_values( (array) $post );
    		}
    
    		return $post;
    	}
    

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