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Integration with Eventbrite API to read information and return it in a variable.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 5.0.0 or later.

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require adigital/eventbrite
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Eventbrite.

Eventbrite Overview

Configuring Eventbrite

The following screenshot of the plugin settings page gives an indication of how it works - you need to provide an Eventbrite API key and organisation ID, and these settings are only editable by admins on environments where the allowAdminChanges setting is enabled.

There's also a settings page which can be accessed by non-admin accounts with the right permission in all environments regardless of the allowAdminChanges setting. This page enables users to optionally specify additional event IDs not set up by their organisation to return along with their organisation's events. See screenshots of this settings page and permission below:

Using Eventbrite

The Plugin Variable

Once configured, data is returned through the plugin variable using the following methods:

craft.eventbrite.allEvents([expansions] = null, sort = true, time_filter = "current_future", unlistedEvents = false, status = "live")

This method returns all events planned by the organisation and specified by the additional event IDs setting. The expansions parameter should be a Twig array where the values correspond to the additional models that can be returned when querying data from the API. You can see the expansions that are available for events in the documentation. The sort parameter will sort events by date by default when organisation and other events are being combined. The time_filter parameter defaults to current and future events, but can also be past or all. The unlistedEvents parameter can be set as true if you want to return unlisted events. Finally, status defaults to only retrieve live events, but can also be set as draft, started, ended, completed, or canceled.

craft.eventbrite.organisationEvents([expansions] = null, time_filter = "current_future", unlistedEvents = false, status = "live")

This method returns only events planned by the organisation, with the parameters working in the same way as the allEvents method.

craft.eventbrite.otherEvents([expansions] = null, sort = true, time_filter = "current_future", unlistedEvents = false)

This method returns only events specified by the 'Other Event Ids' setting, with the parameters working in the same way as the allEvents method.

craft.eventbrite.eventById(eventId, [expansions] = null, fullDescription = true, unlistedEvent = false)

This method returns a single event by its ID, which should be the numeric ID for the event in Eventbrite. Expansions are specified as described above and the full HTML description for the event can be optionally returned and accessed with eventVariable['htmlDescription']['description'].

organisationVenues()

This method returns all the venues belonging to the organisation specified in the plugin settings.

venueById(venueId)

This method returns a venue by its ID, which should be the numeric ID for the venue in Eventbrite.

venueEvents(venueId, [expansions] = null, unlistedEvents = false, status = "live" onlyPublic = "true")

This method returns only events held at the venue specified by the venueId parameter, with the other parameters working in the same way as the allEvents method, and the additional onlyPublic parameter that states whether the events returned should be filtered by whether they are public.

Caching

As the plugin reads live data from the Eventbrite API, you should wrap any use of the variable in your Twig templates within Craft cache tags to reduce your calls to the API and improve page load times.

Eventbrite Roadmap

Things to do, and ideas for potential features:

• Add methods to write back to Eventbrite so purchasing of tickets can be completed without going offsite
• Explore use of other API methods to expand data returned and possibly add more event stats to Craft

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