Using variables to determine specific url

rathersplendid · 2010-02-11 12:47:21

I have an archive page that outputs a list of the current month’s articles as standard (/archives) but I also use upm_date_archive to output a ‘month menu’ e.g. January (12), and the corresponding lists when a particular ‘month menu’ item has been clicked. Due to the nature of the upm_date_archive plugin, which does not allow me to display a ‘current month’ list from the /archives url, I have had to resort to using variables to show particular content; if I did not, I would have both the current month list and the individual month list displayed on top of one another.

My code so far is:

<txp:variable name="archive" value='<txp:site_url />archives/' />
    <txp:if_variable name="archive" value='<txp:site_url />archives/'>
    	<txp:article_custom limit="999" wraptag="ul" break="" month='<txp:php>echo date("Y-m");</txp:php>' sort="Posted desc">
    		<txp:if_different>
    			<li class="month"><h4><txp:posted format="%B" /> <txp:posted format="%Y" /></h4></li>
    		</txp:if_different>
    		<li>
    		    <p class="title"><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></p>	
    		</li>
    	</txp:article_custom>
    <txp:else />
        <txp:upm_date_archive form="archive_view" mode="smart" heading_level="4" include_date="no" sort="the_year desc, the_month desc, the_date desc" />
    </txp:if_variable>

If you’re confused as I am, here’s a breakdown of what I want displayed on what urls:
<txp:site_url />archives/ – Current month list with permalinked titles to articles

<txp:site_url />archives/2010-02
or
<txp:site_url />archives/2010-01 etc – Specific month list from that particular url (the upm_date_archive plugin handles this)

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

jsoo · 2010-02-11 13:21:49

Can’t say I do quite understand exactly what you’re after, but here are two minor observations:

<txp:variable name="archive" value='<txp:site_url />archives/' />
    <txp:if_variable name="archive" value='<txp:site_url />archives/'>

The if_variable will always evaluate true.

<txp:posted format="%B" /> <txp:posted format="%Y" />

Same as <txp:posted format="%B %Y" />

Last edited by jsoo (2010-02-11 13:22:14)

jakob · 2010-02-11 13:24:48

I’m not so familiar with upm_date_archive but if the link is essentially a query string (e.g. ?month=) rewritten for clean urls (e.g. still a GET value), you can use adi_gps to check for an url query for “month”. adi_gps helpfully automatically puts that in a variable so that you can use if_variable to test if the url is requesting a specific month or not.

rathersplendid · 2010-02-11 13:28:48

jsoo wrote:

The if_variable will always evaluate true.

Ok, I didn’t realise.

<txp:posted format="%B" /> <txp:posted format="%Y" />
Same as <txp:posted format="%B %Y" />

Thanks, I feel like a bit of a douche not thinking of that before.

Gocom · 2010-02-11 13:32:57

As jakob said, TXP has inbuild ?month= selector for <txp:article/> tags. If we use same kind of format for the custom listing, we get a completely pluginless solution:

<txp:variable name="month" value='<txp:php> gps("month"); </txp:php>' />
<txp:if_variable name="month" value="">
	<!--
		This month
	-->
	<txp:article_custom month='<txp:php>echo safe_strftime("%Y-%m"); </txp:php>' />
<txp:else />
	<!--
		Selected month
	-->
	<txp:article_custom month='<txp:php>echo gps("month");</txp:php>' />
</txp:if_variable>

Links in un-rewritten format are archives/?month=2009-12 etc.

Last edited by Gocom (2010-02-11 13:34:31)

jsoo · 2010-02-11 13:34:31

As it happens, I have just been working on month-based article lists for a client. Probably I’d be better off using upm_date_archive, but felt like seeing what I could do with core tags. Anyway, this might give you ideas for solving your problem.

I’m not using a special archive page, just the section front page. This is in the page template:

<txp:variable name="month" value='<txp:rah_get_date format="%B %Y" />' />
<txp:if_variable name="month" value="">
   <!-- not a month-based list -->
<txp:else />
<h2>Archives: <txp:variable name="month" /></h2>
</txp:if_variable>
<txp:article />

I’m using the handy little rah_get_date plugin so it’s not exactly plugin-free, but could have used a small bit of raw PHP instead.

So maybe you could use a similar conditional to distinguish between /archives/ and, say, /archives/?month=2009-02.

Speaking of rah_get_date, Gocom beat me to it.

Gocom · 2010-02-11 13:38:38

jsoo wrote:

I’m using the handy little rah_get_date plugin so it’s not exactly plugin-free, but could have used a small bit of raw PHP instead.

Yes. It is indeed really small plugins with minimal lines of code. Nothing special so to speak :-)

Speaking of rah_get_date, Gocom beat me to it.

I’m 6 feet tall and violent. lol.

Last edited by Gocom (2010-02-11 13:40:39)

rathersplendid · 2010-02-11 13:40:50

The upm_date_archive plugin does not use /?month=2009-02 urls it uses /2010-02 for example. This means that I cannot use the month in the url, any ideas?

jsoo · 2010-02-11 13:55:42

rathersplendid wrote:

The upm_date_archive plugin does not use /?month=2009-02 urls it uses /2010-02 for example. This means that I cannot use the month in the url, any ideas?

I’m generating the URLs manually:

<txp:article_custom section='<txp:section />' limit="9999">
<txp:if_different>
<a href="<txp:site_url /><txp:section />/?month=<txp:posted format="%Y-%m" />"><txp:posted format="%B %Y" /></a><br />
</txp:if_different>
</txp:article_custom>

Keeping in mind that a no-limit article_custom isn’t a terribly efficient way to query the database …

rathersplendid · 2010-02-11 14:16:56

I have actually managed to fix my problem with a surprisingly simple solution, instead of linking to /archives, from the menu, I have linked to /archives/<txp:php>echo date("Y-m");</txp:php> which link to the current year-month as I needed.

Thanks for all your help though, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner, and this forum is brilliant!

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