[solved] Articles by Month

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ian_m Reply #1, 16 years, 2 months ago

I am trying to output articles by month using the following call:

[!Reflect?config=`wordpress` &targetID=`2` &getDocuments=`1` &dittoSnippetParameters=`startID:2`!]

However it just brings up articles from all months in order of the most recent published.

I must confess to not having done to much searching on this subject is there an quick and easy call for this.

Thanks

Forgot to mention I am using version 1.03

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mrhaw Reply #2, 16 years, 2 months ago

Are you using startID (old param) in you ditto call?

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ian_m Reply #3, 16 years, 2 months ago

OK the parent page that all the articles are under has the following:

[[Ditto? &startID=`2` &summarize=`5` &removeChunk=`Comments` &dateSource=`createdon` &dateFormat=`%d-%m-%y` &tpl=`ditto_blog` &paginate=`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`  &extenders=`summary`]]

<div id="ditto_pages">
Showing [+start+] - [+stop+] of [+total+] Articles
[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]
 </div>
[[Reflect? &dittoSnippetParameters=`startID:2` &groupByYears=`1` &showItems=1` &tplMonth=`reflect_month_tpl`]]

Its more or less the same code as in the demo template when installing MODx

cheers

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mrhaw Reply #4, 16 years, 2 months ago

See this: http://ditto.modxcms.com/index.php?id=45&searched=wordpress&highlight=AS_ajax_highlight+AS_ajax_highlight1

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ian_m Reply #5, 16 years ago

OK thanks for the code snippet there, the output on the page is near perfect now the only thing I cant get to work to the selecting articles by month/year. when I select the any year it just returns the full list.

However when I added just the calls for the word press theme from the link you supplied that worked great but the config is very limited on that option.

So right now I have this code on the main parent page

<!-- [!Ditto? &startID=`2` &summarize=`5` &removeChunk=`Comments` &dateSource=`createdon` &dateFormat=`%d-%m-%y` &tpl=`ditto_blog` &paginate=`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`  &extenders=`summary`!]

<div id="ditto_pages">
Showing [+start+] - [+stop+] of [+total+] Articles
[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]
 </div>
[[Reflect? &dittoSnippetParameters=`startID:2` &groupByYears=`1` &showItems=`1` &tplMonth=`reflect_month_tpl`]]

And in the side menu of the template I have this code to show articles by month

 [!Reflect?config=`wordpress` &targetID=`2` &getDocuments=`1` &dittoSnippetParameters=`parents:2` &id=`wp`!]

If I can get the filtering options working everything will be perfect and thanks again for your help.

I am using 1.03 and ditto version is 2.1.0

Thanks again

Ian

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mrhaw Reply #6, 16 years ago

1. Assign the &id=`wp` (or &id=`whatever`) to the ditto call as well.
2. You can pass any ditto param e.g. &year=`2009` to your
reflect call...
example reflect call

[!Reflect? &targetID=`88` &getDocuments=`1` &dittoSnippetParameters=`parents:2|year:2009` &id=`whatever`!]

example ditto on Resource 88

[[Ditto?id=`whatever` &extenders=`summary,dateFilter`]]

Where Resource 2 was the container for the items

I haven’t tried using multiple reflect calls affecting one and same ditto instance...
You can also filter the results with the request extender:
http://www.pogwatch.com/ditto/ditto-extenders/ditto-request.html
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,35926.msg217059.html#msg217059

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ian_m Reply #7, 16 years ago

ok I am learning lots about the output variations now of reflect which is great, but whatever variation I come up with if say i select the option for articles from January 2008 I get the same output as if I have selected the link March 2010.

I have tried making the calls uncached ie [! params !] but I cant get it show the just the selected results, the url for say January 2008 looks like this

http://site.com/index.php?q=press-articles_friendly_url_.string&wp_month=1&wp_year=2008&wp_day=false&wp_start=0

But the output is the most recently created article 1st to the oldest.

I cant work out what is over-riding the url string any ideas on what to check.

Many thanks

Ian

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mrhaw Reply #8, 16 years ago

What is your ditto and reflect call. Try using only one reflect
or assign the other to another ditto with another &id=`something`

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ian_m Reply #9, 16 years ago

I have tried changing the parent document and even tried everything on another site still the same problem this is everything I have.

Ditto call on parent containing page is

[[Ditto? &startID=`121` &summarize=`5` &removeChunk=`Comments` &dateSource=`createdon` &orderBy=`createdon desc` &dateFormat=`%d-%m-%y` &tpl=`ditto_blog` &paginate=`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`  &extenders=`summary` &truncLen=`1000` &truncText=`Read More...`]]

<div id="ditto_pages">
Showing [+start+] - [+stop+] of [+total+] Articles
[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]
 </div>

The reflect call is

	[!Reflect?config=`wordpress` &targetID=`121` &getDocuments=`1` &dittoSnippetParameters=`parents:121`&id=`wp`!]

my ditto_blog chunk is

<div class="ditto_summaryPost">
  <h3><a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="[+title+]">[+title+]</a></h3>
  <div style="padding:10px 10px 10px 5px;" ><br />on [+date+].</div>
   [+summary+]
  <p class="ditto_link">[+link+]</p><hr />
</div>

That is just about everything I have, I have tested it on an alternative resource that has child documents spanning back over a year but still no luck. Does the above look ok or do my issues lay else where.

Thanks

Ian

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mrhaw Reply #10, 16 years ago

Your ditto has no &id param

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