Interesting variations · Oct 29, 03:29 pm by Rick Silletti
Some interesting variations on the:
<txp:ras_if_expired>
I revised the plugin to included an alter ego tag called:
<txp:ras_if_current>
the two in tandem should be good for bracketing aricles by posting date as follows: “week” article form.
<txp:ras_if_current offset="14"> <txp:ras_if_expired offset="7"> <p><txp:permlink> <txp:title /> </txp:permlink></p> </txp:ras_if_expired> </txp:ras_if_current>
Then
<txp:article_custom form="week" />
in your page template.
In this case if_expired checks for articles older than 7 days to return true (or the article link), it was originally designed to test for and return true when an article was expired. if_current returns true (or the article link) if an article is not older than 14 days, thus bracketing article links older than 7 days but not older than 14.
Both tags will accept an else clause and using that to avoid confusion with the names, well that`s up to you; I know they are giving me a bit of a headache.
Section: article
Thanks for this helpful plugin. I’ve just installed it to set up a Press Release page, which I wanted to limit to articles less than 30 days old. This works brilliantly!
— Mike Lucas Dec 1, 11:03 pm #
Thanks, it was originally written for someone who had a similar need.
Would changing the name of the function make it a little easier to use?
— Rick Silletti Dec 2, 12:20 am #
Thanks – this is fantastic. I was the original poster, but for some reason didn’t see your response until today. Wonderful stuff.
Is there also some way to make TXP group archives by week, or would I be best off doing this with categories?
Thanks again!
— Brendan Dec 26, 07:56 pm #
if_different can select out months and days, but maybe not weeks. Trying to shuffle up a complete set of conditional tags like the ones in this article would be longwinded, maybe a combination of the two?
The real difficulty arises with the need for dynamic inputs to the conditionals – gets a little hairy!
— Rick Silletti Dec 26, 10:18 pm #