Confused with coding for event page

[OwlService]

Hi there,

 

Thank you for your time. 

 

I am no PHP coder, so please bare with me.

 

I have the following code to display events on my page, but I want to change how date, event is displayed. Currently, it displays date in an H4 heading and directly below, the event title in an H5 heading.

I want it to display in one line 

<h4> Weds 1 June : Interval Training</h4>

i am sure this is a very basic thing to do, but I can't see it.

 

This is my code:

        <!-- Event Code To Go Here 
    ================================================== -->
    <div class="entry-content content">
	<div class="main-am-events">

		<?php $args = array(
		'post_type' => 'am_event',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'orderby' => 'meta_value',
		'meta_key' => 'am_startdate',
		'order' => 'ASC',
		'meta_query' => array(
			array(
				'key' => 'am_enddate',
				'value' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time()),
				'compare' => ">",
				),
				),
				);

		$the_query = new WP_Query($args); 
        
        if ($the_query->have_posts()) {
		while ($the_query->have_posts()) {
		$the_query->the_post();

		$postId = $post->ID;

		// GET EVENT DATA 

		$startDate = am_get_the_startdate('l j F');

		// DISPLAY EVENT CONTENT

		echo '<strong><h4>' . $startDate . '</h4></strong>';
		the_title( '<h5>', '</h5>' ); 
		the_content();
		echo '<hr class="x-hr">';

		}
		}
		wp_reset_query();
		?>
        </div><!-- end am-events -->

Could anyone give me a heads up please?

 

I appreciate your time.

 

Thank you,

Karl

[Jacques1]

This doesn't require any programming skills, just common sense. Right now, you have this:

echo '<strong><h4>' . $startDate . '</h4></strong>';
the_title( '<h5>', '</h5>' ); 

That's an h4 elment with the data followed by an h5 element with the title (I have no idea what the strong element is doing there).

 

If you want to put the title into the h4 element, do it:

echo '<h4>'.$startDate.' : '.the_title('', '', false).'</h4>';

The third argument of the_title() tells Wordpress to return the title rather than print it.

[OwlService]

Thank you. Sometimes common sense deserts me! Thank you for taking the time. Much appreciated. Karl