Linking to blog arcives for previous months

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galahad5 Reply #1, 16 years, 2 months ago

Hi, one thing I need to be able to do with Ditto is set up links to "previous months" of blog entries, for example June 2010, May 2010 etc.

So far I have the following:

[!Ditto? &parents=`10` &depth=`0` &extenders=`dateFilter` &dateFilterSource=`params` &year=`2010` &month=`7` &tpl=`ditto.previousmonths` !]

The template is simply <p>[+month+][+year+]</p>.

Rather than linking to a page with a listing of the old blogs though, it’s just listing "2010" over and over within the page column where I placed the call. I’ve read a bit about using the &get parameter but haven’t found anywhere that explains how it can be used easily.

Ideally I’d like to have a new link appear when the current month becomes an "archive month" for example on August 1st it would be nice for "July 2010" to appear as a link in the Archives column, and when a user clicks on that link they get a listing of the blogs from that month.

Not sure if this can be done easily though? I’ve tried creating a form in the column as follows:

<form id="dateFilterForm" action="archives.html" method="get">
 <select name="year" size="1">
<option value="""" selected="selected">- year-</option>
<option value="2010">2010</option>
</select>
<select name="month" size="1">
<option value="""" selected="selected">-- month --</option>
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
<option value="3">March</option>
<option value="4">April</option>
<option value="5">May</option>
<option value="6">June</option>
<option value="7">July</option>
<option value="8">August</option>
<option value="9">September</option>
<option value="10">October</option>
<option value="11">November</option>
<option value="12">December</option>
 <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
</select>
</form>

And then in the archives.html page, call a snippet which contains the following:

<?php
$year = $_GET['year'];
$month = $_GET['month'];
?>

I echo-tested this and it outputted the year and month.

But I then tried this Ditto call below and it gave me "No documents found..."

[!Ditto? &parents=`10` &extenders=`dateFilter` &dateSource=`pkDate` &dateFormat=`%d %b %Y` &params=`get` &year=`$year` &month=`$month` !]

However I know I have two blogs for July this year (which is what i search on in the form).

Anyone know why this is coming up empty?

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hotdiggity Reply #2, 16 years, 2 months ago

Why don’t you just use Reflect with the Wordpress config for displaying blog archives?

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,14003.0.html

Mostly harmless.

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mrhaw Reply #3, 16 years, 2 months ago

You would have to do
year=`[[snippet]]`
or
year=`[+placeholder+]`

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galahad5 Reply #4, 16 years, 2 months ago

Doesn’t seem to work... I edited the snippet so it just calls the year:

<?php
$year = $_GET['year'];
//$month = $_GET['month'];
echo $year;
//echo $month;
?>

And then called it within the Ditto call on the archives page:

<p>Archives for [!archive_year_month!]</p>
[!Ditto? &parents=`10` &extenders=`dateFilter` &dateSource=`pkDate` &dateFormat=`%d %b %Y` &params=`get` &year=`[!archive_year_month!]` !]

Note that in the paragraph above the heading outputs correctly- it displays "Archives for 2010". But it still says there are no documents found. huh

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mrhaw Reply #5, 16 years, 2 months ago

Do [[ ... ]] cached snippet call when embed in a uncached snippet call [! ... !]

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galahad5 Reply #6, 16 years, 2 months ago

Same result I’m afraid... sad

Interestingly if I try setting up the Reflect method instead, although it appears to *almost* work, it outputs the date as 1 Jan 1970 for some reason!

In the side column where I want to link to the archives, I’m using:

[[Reflect?config=`wordpress` &targetID=`19` &dittoSnippetParameters=`startID:10`]]

And in the main body column where I want the listings to appear:

[!Ditto?startID=`10`  &extenders=`dateFilter`!]

The main issue is that it’s not showing anything (e.g a link to the archives) in the column where I put the Reflect call, and in the main column, it seems to be outputting every resource regardless of date.

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galahad5 Reply #7, 16 years, 2 months ago

Tried Reflect again with the following call, but getting no documents:

[!Ditto? &startID=`10` &tpl=`ditto.listingpreview` &filter=`id,12,2|id,13,2|id,14,2|id,15,2|id,16,2|id,18,2|id,19,2` &sortBy=`createdon` &showPublishedOnly=`1`  &extenders=`dateFilter`!]

(Using the filter to stop container resources being displayed)

However I just call as follows I get the containers showing-but not the blogs!

[!Ditto? &startID=`10` &tpl=`ditto.listingpreview`  &extenders=`dateFilter`!]

Clearly something’s working though, because if I change the start ID to 12 I get the tweo blogs which are inside the container with ID=12. And at least the dates work now. But the filtering doesn’;t seem to work when I call from the root container...

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galahad5 Reply #8, 16 years, 2 months ago

Ok, using the filter with &depth=0 seems to work... only thing is I can’t yet see is if a new link will get automatically created for August, when the first August blog is created...