Request: ICS Export per category

@agelonwl thanks! will look into it. Seems I need to add arguments to the call, and filter based on the category in the argument.

@marcus: I guess this will provide helpful for a lot of users, as the site can actually offer a limited subscription. I don’t have the time nor the resources to tackle this for the coming months. However, I’m willing to look into the filtering, see if there’s a way. Do you have any pointers on using the fact that the category also generates the ical needed?

Whoa, I got the thing to work! Thanks to the other thread and some trial-and-error on formatting. Funny thing is that this way actually uses the name of the category to generate the category id and filter on this, so this can be used as a general implementation! I added handling for permalinks as well. Here’s the code:

/* Get the category ID */
$uri=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$args=explode('/',$uri);
/* handling different permalinks */
if ($args[1]=='index.php') {
	$start_index_URI=2;
}else{
	$start_index_URI=1;
}
/* retrieve category ID from WP Events Manager DB */
if($args[$start_index_URI]=='events' && $args[$start_index_URI + 1]=='categories') {
	$cat_name=$args[$start_index_URI + 2];
	$cat_obj=get_term_by('name', $cat_name , 'event-categories');
	$cat_id=$cat_obj->term_id;
}

and the loop on (former) line 13:
$EM_Events = EM_Events::get(apply_filters('em_calendar_template_args',array( 'limit'=>get_option('dbem_ical_limit'), 'owner'=>false, 'orderby'=>'event_start_date', 'scope' => get_option('dbem_ical_scope'), 'category'=>$cat_id )) );

So, there’s now three ways to get an export:
1. per event
2. per category: [site]/events/categories/[category name]/events.ics
3. whole calendar: [site]/events/events.ics

Marcus, I guess this is something you can just implement and document? It also works with different permalinks, as stated before.

Did that, thanks Marcus!