Events Calendar Pro

There's a great little tutorial on how to intergrate Events Calendar Pro & Gravity Forms here.

http://events.creativeoven.com/2010/08/tutorial/

I'm stuck on the third step on how to Create new form with these fields…

_isEvent (make this “1″) do we need this field?

_EventStartDate (2010-05-20 09:00:00)
_EventEndDate (2010-05-20 17:00:00)

_EventPhone
_EventVenue
_EventCost

_EventAddress
_EventCity
_EventZip
_EventState (AZ)
_EventCountry (United States)
_EventProvince do we need this field?
_EventShowMapLink (true or false)

_EventAllDay (make this “yes” if it’s a full day event)

Any help to start me off would be appreciated.

I followed the instructions you posted a link to: http://events.creativeoven.com/2010/08/tutorial/ - and I think it works.

First I created a form with all the custom fields. Some of them I gave a default value and checked the advanced option: "Visibility - Admin only".

I also created a "Post title" and a "Post body field". Then I took the code from the link you
posted and put in the gravityforms.php file at the end.

There is a couple of places in the code you will have to insert/replace the form ID with the actual ID of your form. Also you will have to insert the date field IDs. My form ID is 5 and the format for my date field has to look like this: "input_5_2" (form 5, field 2) and not like this "input_2" as in his example. At least that is what I did - you can see the field ID's in your form-page sourcecode.

After sending the form I go to the event plugin in wp-admin and I see an unpublished event. I changed it to published and I got the data submitted to show up in my event calendar, pretty cool actually.

Hope that helps you...

Any update on this? We're having issues where each event is posted 4 times on submission and the dates are not working. Any suggestions?

We're having 2 issues right now.

1) 4 posts are created when a new event is added. This problem is not occurring with other custom post types so we're pretty sure this is an Events Calendar Pro bug but would love to hear any insights you may have as to why this could happen.

2) We cannot get the date to be passed correctly in Events Calendar Pro. This was working perfectly before the Gravity Forms 1.5 update but we can't figure out what would have changed. Here is the code in the functions file which used to work:

add_action("gform_pre_submission", "format_event_date");
function format_event_date($form){

    //replace 1 with your actual form id
    if($form["id"] != 1)
        return;

    //replace 4 with your actual date field ID
    $date = $_POST["input_6"];
    $dateend = $_POST["input_8"];

    //replace with your actual time field ID
    $time = $_POST["input_7"];
    $timeend = $_POST["input_9"];

    $hour = str_pad($time[0], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); //making sure hour has 2 digits
    $minute = str_pad($time[1], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); //making sure minutes has 2 digits

    $hourend = str_pad($timeend[0], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); //making sure hour has 2 digits
    $minuteend = str_pad($timeend[1], 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); //making sure minutes has 2 digits

    //formatting date
    $raw_date = "{$date} {$hour}:{$minute}{$time[2]}";
    $formatted_date = gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($raw_date));

    $raw_dateend = "{$dateend} {$hourend}:{$minuteend}{$timeend[2]}";
    $formatted_dateend = gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($raw_dateend));

    //replace with the IDs of the hidden fields that will hold the formatted dates
    $_POST["input_20"] = $formatted_date;
    $_POST["input_21"] = $formatted_dateend;

 }

Any help or pointing in the right direction would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks!
- Tim

Hi, I am struggling with the same problem.
Really would appreciate a solution.

The problem is the diffrence in the dateformat the two plugins use.
And as the date format in Events Calendar pro is the international date format (ISO) YYYY-MM-DD
And also the ISO format is requested by more GF users for non Events Calendar pro issues.
So in my opnion this is the way to go.