Minimum PHP required

Set up Ryan’s library.

Create a client.

Retrieve the data.

	include('eventbrite-api/Eventbrite.php');

	$eb_client = new Eventbrite($api_tokens);

	$these_events = $eb_client->user_list_events(array('event_statuses'=>'live,started'));
						

Caching / scheduling

Save it as JSON:

$json_events = json_encode($these_events);

file_put_contents(EVENTBRITE_CACHE . 'events.json', $json_events);
						

Schedule with cron (a few times an hour).

Cached file

Unformatted JSON isn’t easy for humans to parse:

{"events":[{"event":{"box_header_text_color":"005580","locale":"en_US","link_color":"EE6600","box_background_color":"FFFFFF","timezone":"Europe\/London","box_border_color":"D5D5D3","logo":"https:\/\/cdn.evbuc.com\/images\/16359393\/139609962402\/1\/logo.jpg","organizer":{"url":"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/o\/getset-for-growth-london-8063154735","description":"GetSet For Growth is an innovative and highly successful service providing world-class advice to businesses …
						

Use a JSON visualiser, for example:
array.include-once.org

Use a shortcode

Define a shortcode in the plugin:

add_shortcode('events', 'eventbrite_plus_expand_shortcode');
						

Use the shortcode to retrieve a list of events
and then display all of them:

[events username="username@eventbrite.com"]
						

Style the events

We need to make a theme-specific function
to display each event in the list:

function eventbrite_plus_display_event ($this_event) {

	$html = <<<ENDS
<div class="row-fluid event_block">
  <div class="span3 event_type">
    {$this_event['image']}
  </div>
  <div class="span6 event_content">
    <p><span class='event_title'>{$this_event['title']}</span></p>
    <p>{$this_event['content']}</p>
  </div>
  <div class="span3 event_cta">
    <p class='event_date_time'><span class='event_date'>{$this_event['date']}</span><br />
    <span class='event_time'>{$this_event['time']}</span></p>
    <p class='event_location'>{$this_event['location']}</p>
    <p class='event_button'>{$this_event['button']}</p>
  </div>
</div>
ENDS;

	return $html;
}
						

Best of both

Finally, we can mix-and-match Eventbrite and manual shortcodes:

[events username="username@eventbrite.com"]

[event date="16/6/2016" title="NatWest…" location="London"]Ways to Grow your Business…[/event]
						

The combined date-sorted list will be displayed wherever the first shortcode (of either kind) occurs on the page.