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Title based on Month
If I have say this: /articles/?month=2009-03
How can I get TXP to display the month in the title, so if I look at /articles/ the title would just be SITE NAME – ARTICLES and if I go to the month the title would read SITE NAME – ARTICLES – MARCH 2009.
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~ Cameron
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Re: Title based on Month
You can use adi_gps to retrieve the url variable as I already suggested in an earlier post in your other thread. This makes a txp variable of each url variable, so you can test whether it exists using <txp:if_variable name="month">. If it exists, you can convert the date format from yyyy-mm to Monthname yyyy with a bit of php: <txp:php>echo date("F Y",strtotime($_GET["month"]));</txp:php>.
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<title><txp:site_name /> – <txp:section title="1" /><txp:if_variable name="month"> – <txp:php>echo date("F Y",strtotime($_GET["month"]));</txp:php></txp:if_variable></title>TXP Builders – finely-crafted code, design and txp
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Re: Title based on Month
Why does TXP need all that code to show a simple Month in the title? The code works great, but just seems long-winded to do something simple :/
Last edited by driz (2009-03-04 21:29:13)
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#4 2009-03-04 22:05:05
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Re: Title based on Month
The fact that it needs “all that code” is probably the reason you needed a bit of help to achieve this, so why not just say “thank you, jakob”…
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driz, I am really exasperated with you. If I give you a few pointers (for example here) you say what’s the code?. If I or others gives you the code, you say tell me how it works. And if, like above, I give you the code, tell you how it works, go and test it myself and anticipate your next question (which would be, it busts when there’s no ?month=) you say it’s long winded.
I don’t know all this off the top of my head – I thought the question was interesting and googled. You could do the same if you were bothered.
This is the only bit that outputs the date in the url variable: echo date("F Y",strtotime($_GET["month"]));. I don’t think you’ll get it that much more compact. Go look up the php functions echo, date, strtotime and get variables to understand it.
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Re: Title based on Month
Els wrote:
so why not just say “thank you, jakob”…
That’ll be the day.
Keith
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Re: Title based on Month
I couldn’t look up the PHP functions, because I wasn’t aware I would need to do that, I assumed you’d be able to do something like this using TXP tags, seemed a little weird that it required both a plugin and some PHP to get a simple output of the month, but I guess that you do.
Anyways Thank you Jakob!
~ Cameron
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