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civicrm_event_create() not working for editing an event
March 24, 2011, 02:48:51 pm
Hi! I'm trying to modify some custom fields tied to an event. I used the following code on a civi 3.3.5 build:
Code: [Select]
$params = array('event_id' => 2, 'custom_5_1' => 'Testing');
$result = civicrm_event_create( $params );
print_r($result);

// RESULT BELOW
// Array ( [is_error] => 1 [error_message] => Mandatory param missing: start_date )

It says in the api Docs that if you pass the 'event_id' with your params that it will update the event rather then try to create a new one.

I tried just changing the title of the event, just seeing if the custom field was the issue. Also I tried specifying the fields that it is saying are mandatory and it created a new event. The rest of the APIs are working well.

Anybody have any issues editing events?

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Re: civicrm_event_create() not working for editing an event
March 24, 2011, 03:42:57 pm

can u try 'id' instead of 'event_id'

thanx

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Re: civicrm_event_create() not working for editing an event
March 24, 2011, 04:35:03 pm
Hi,

My recollection is that api v2 event api doesn't allow you to create custom fields anyway but that v3 (which you can backport ) does

I added a test to event update to check how it works & generated an example here

http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/trunk/api/v3/examples/EventUpdate.php

but it doesn't check custom fields work in v3 - I'm just going off memory on that one

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Re: civicrm_event_create() not working for editing an event
March 24, 2011, 05:03:06 pm
Thanks for response guys. I'm even trying to change just the title like this, but get the same errors being returned:

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$params = array('id' => 2, 'title' => 'Test Event');
$result = civicrm_event_create( $params );

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Re: civicrm_event_create() not working for editing an event
March 24, 2011, 05:10:37 pm
I suspect that if you are using v2 you just need to do a get first & get the start date & feed it in.

At some point I will introduce a test in v3 to verify that adding custom fields bit DOES work
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Re: civicrm_event_create() not working for editing an event
March 25, 2011, 10:55:03 am
Thanks eileen and lobo for pointing me in the right direction. It was a combination of needing to use 'id' vs 'event_id', like the api docs say and need to pull a get request before to get the current 'title', 'start_date', 'event_type_id', which are all requirements apparently.

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$getEvent = array('id' => 2);
$getResult = civicrm_event_get( $getEvent );

$date = date('YmdHis', strtotime($getResult['start_date']));

$setEvent = array('id' => 2, 'custom_5_1' => 39, 'title' => $getResult['title'] , 'start_date' => $date, 'event_type_id' => $getResult['event_type_id']);
$setResult = civicrm_event_create( $setEvent );

maybe I will update the wiki with this example?

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Re: civicrm_event_create() not working for editing an event
March 25, 2011, 11:10:32 am

IMO, this is a bug and we should fix it (for 3.4)

can you please file an issue, so we can clean this up.

In general, update should not require sending in the "required" fields

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Re: civicrm_event_create() not working for editing an event
March 25, 2011, 02:45:55 pm
OK, I filed the issue today. Hope its ok that I just linked to this post. Thanks again for you help!
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