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mdn_count

Version 2.1.1 – updated 2010-11-05.

I am not the original author, but I use this plugin and when I updated to the 4.3.0 RC it no longer worked, so I gave it a quick do-over.

<txp:mdn_count section=" sectionname " category=" categoryname " status=" 1,2,3,4,5 " time=" now,past,future " />

• Using the tag without any attributes will return a count of all articles that are both live and current (not expired or future).
• Specifying a section or a category will show a count of articles in that section/category.
• Specifying both a section and a category will show articles in the intersection of the two criteria.
• The status attribute defaults to 4 (live), and also accepts 1 (draft), 2 (hidden), 3 (pending), and 5 (sticky) – please use the numbers only.
• The time attribute defaults to now, and also accepts past and future – new in v2.1.

All attributes are both optional and accept multiple values (in the form of a comma separated list).

Plugin originally by Mark Norton, v2.0+ rewritten by me :)

Tested on 4.2.0 and 4.3.0, but should work on all versions of Textpattern.

Please let me know if you find any bugs.

Cheers,
Mitch.

Last edited by cain-mi (2013-03-20 04:08:20)

cain-mi wrote:

Version 2.0 – completely rewritten 2010-10-30.

Remillard wrote:

Thanks. I’m glad there’s still a point to it, but I’m just not doing any web work anymore at the moment.

Hi Mitch, since Mark is not working on the plugin anymore, maybe a new thread for your modified plugin should be opened?

Last edited by colak (2010-10-30 16:16:32)

cain-mi wrote:

I thought about that, but seeing as this plugin doesn’t have a huge following (only a couple of posts in this thread in the last two years), there was no point fragmenting it.

I’m using the plugin:) Maybe the inactivity lies in its not having any problems:) i’ll be downloading yours very soon. Thanks for adopting it.

Is there a way to only count the articles in a given category that have not expired?

That works great! Thank you very much! Though you may want to add the option ‘all’ to the time attribute in case people want a total count of all articles (like it used to supply)? I don’t have a use for that myself, though.

I was actually needing it to tell me if I have more than a certain number of articles in a section so I could then provide a link to the rest of them (with excerpts on the opening list). I could not find a way to use txp:variable to do this comparison, so I modified the return value from mdn_count to basically give me a yes or no type of value instead of the actual count (send back a 5 if there are more than 5 articles — the number of articles I give a preview for — or a 0 if there are 5 or fewer). I could then use txp:variable to determine the answer to the yes/no question of whether I needed a link or not.

Have I gone roundabout on an issue that has a simpler solution?

Last edited by Bill Grimm (2010-11-05 18:26:32)