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#1 2007-04-27 18:53:34
- amihai
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Displaying different articles by month
hey there, I would like to displays articles by month and was wondering how I can accomplish it with Textpattern.
For example, disregarding when articles were posted, I want to show 10 articles from September 1st to October 2nd. And 10 different articles from March 1st to April 20th etc. every year, recurring.
Your help would be greatly appreciated :)
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Re: Displaying different articles by month
There is this method which you might need to alter. There is article_custom and I’m certain that there are other ways which i can not recall just now:)
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#3 2007-04-28 21:21:48
- amihai
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Re: Displaying different articles by month
Thank you but that doesn’t really accomplish what I need. For example, I need something that would accomplish the same thing as:
if september1-october2 {
//display this
}
if march1-april20 {
//display this
}
Is that possible?
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Re: Displaying different articles by month
your example seems to be using a kind of a random personal date order which I do not think that it is supported as it is too specific. I would think that to achieve what you want will need manual insertion of the constraints.
Maybe Example 4 might be of help
Example 4: Will display articles that have a custom field named “colour” with a value “red”
<txp:article_custom colour="red" />
What you will need to do is have a custom field which you can name “date” and then call all articles using that variable
ie <txp:article_custom date="september1-october2" /> and for the next series <txp:article_custom date="march1-april20 " />
Last edited by colak (2007-04-29 06:53:22)
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#5 2007-04-29 21:12:38
- amihai
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Re: Displaying different articles by month
Thanks a bunch. I ended up just doing it all in php between the <txp:php> tags. It’s unfortunate there isn’t a way to accomplish the same thing more simply with Textpattern.
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#6 2007-04-30 20:15:41
- Mary
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Re: Displaying different articles by month
What you’re asking for is, frankly, rather odd, don’t you think? In other words: plugin.
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#7 2007-05-01 02:43:54
- rsilletti
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Re: Displaying different articles by month
This ras-dates would give you that level of display control.
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#8 2007-05-01 18:26:08
- amihai
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Re: Displaying different articles by month
Yeah Mary, you’re right. It’s a little too complicated and going with a plugin is a better solution. Who knows, maybe I’ll make this into my first plugin :)
Thanks rsilletti, that’s pretty cool.
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