All instances of an event?

mriedesel · Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 4

I'm attempting to get all instance of an event so I can process the dates and times and then produce a nice succinct description of the event (ie: Mon thru Fri, 5-6:30pm).

One problem is that I have a specific range of dates that I need to search. This date range generally spans about two weeks, and I need to get events that take place within that range as well as events that continue on past the range end date, such that an event that repeats every day for 3 months would still return a full listing of instances so I could shorten the data down into something manageable like "January 3rd thru March 5th".

So, my question, is there a way to acquire a full listing of instances for a specific event id? Or do I just have to parse the repeat/interval values and figure out the times from there?

Thanks Smile

mriedesel · Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 4

Just to clarify, the method I use for getting an event list is to generate a list of dates that fall within my start and end search ranges, then loop through them and pass them to $cal->get_event_list('day'). I store the event IDs in a list and then remove all the duplicates IDs.

Now, if I could loop through the event IDs and get every event instance associated with each ID, then that would be wonderful.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Hi,

You could do something like this:

mriedesel · Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 4

Thanks for the quick response Ian.

The method you described works fine and is very similar to what I'm doing now. Although there's still a small issue, here's a little scenario:

My search range is Jan-1 to Jan-7, there is an event that begins on Jan-5 and repeats every day for 1 week. If I get a list of events for Jan-1 through Jan-7, then that event will appear but only the first 3 instances (Jan 5,6,7).

After processing the instance dates into friendly readable form, I the result would be incorrect, stating that the event begins the 5th and ends the 7th. So I'm trying to get a full list of instances for a given event in order to search ahead and avoid missing any repeating days that don't all necessarily fall within my search range.

I hope that makes some sense.

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Would it be accurate to say that you want to know when an event stops repeating rather than every instance?

mriedesel · Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 4

That would be sufficient, so long as I can determine the start/end times and days that the event occurs on. I tried poking around the repeater code but it's all Zendified, so here I am Smile

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

$event->end should hold the event's end date. You should not need the repeater for that. If it is null or 0, then it does not have an end date set.

Let me know if this doesn't give you what you need.