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| Section | Date |
|---|---|
| context_demo | 2008 |
Date-based archives
As I wrote in Date context, article is the only date-sensitive tag in Txp:
This code:
<txp:article sort="Posted" limit="3" wraptag="ul" break="li">
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink> (<txp:posted />)
</txp:article>produces this output:
If you picked a context earlier than 2011, the above list is empty, because this section has no articles older than that (the example menu in Date context was based on article_custom and so included articles from all sections of this site). article_custom can select articles by date, using the same date format as month, so here’s a way to fake context-sensitive behavior:
This code:
<txp:article_custom sort="Posted" limit="5" wraptag="ul" break="li"
month='<txp:page_url type="month" />'>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink> (<txp:posted />)
</txp:article_custom>produces this output:
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The extensive use of if_different is for nesting the HTML tags properly, and for not repeating dates.
Finally, just for fun, here’s a date-based article archive formatted as a nested definition list. Used as shown it is date-context-sensitive; used without the month attribute in the article_custom tag it would show a full site archive (as you can see for yourself by putting a month value of 2 or 20 into the URL).
This code:
<txp:article_custom sort="Posted" limit="9999" wraptag="dl" break="" class="archive"
month='<txp:page_url type="month" />'>
<txp:variable name="close_tags" value=
'<txp:if_different></dl></dd><txp:posted format="<!--%Y%m-->" /></txp:if_different>' />
<txp:if_first_article><txp:else /><txp:variable name="close_tags" /></txp:if_first_article>
<txp:if_different><dt class="year"><txp:posted format="%Y" /></dt></txp:if_different>
<txp:if_different><dd><b><txp:posted format="<!--%Y-->%b" /></b><dl></txp:if_different>
<txp:if_different><dt><txp:posted format="<!--%F-->%d" /></dt></txp:if_different>
<dd><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></dd>
<txp:if_last_article></dl></dd></txp:if_last_article>
</txp:article_custom>
produces this output:
