upcomingEvents.php

/**
 * Grab the upcoming events from the Events Manager plugin. However, we need to make sure only the first
 * instance of a recurring event shows up. So, we need to essentially get reccuring/non-recurring events
 * and then merge the result set. This is not supported by the plugin currently...
 * @return array
 */
function getUpcomingEvents()
{
    $upcomingEvents = array();
    $recurring = array();
    $nonRecurring = array();
    if( class_exists('EM_Events') ) {
        // Grab the recurring and non recurring events
        $recurring      = \EM_Events::get(array('orderby' => 'event_start_date', 'recurring' => 1));
        $nonRecurring   = \EM_Events::get(array('orderby' => 'event_start_date', 'recurring' => 0));

        // Filter out recurring events from the non recurring set
        $nonRecurring = array_filter( $nonRecurring, function($event) { return $event->recurrence_id == null; } );

        // Merge the two sets of events
        $upcomingEvents = array_merge( $recurring, $nonRecurring );

        // Sort the events in order
        usort( $upcomingEvents, function($curEvent, $nxtEvent) { return $curEvent->start > $nxtEvent->start; } );
    }
    // only return 3 events
    return array_splice($upcomingEvents, 0, 3);
}