Posted 9 months ago #
I want to have a list in the sidebar with posts that have today's date as a tag.
This is what I'm trying but it won't accept the date function as a tag.
<?php query_posts('showposts=10');?>
<?php $posts = get_posts('tag=<?php the_time('jmY') ?>&numberposts=10&offset=0');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>"><?php $key="alttitle"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?></a>
<?php endforeach; ?>Any help much appreciated.
Posted 9 months ago #
I haven't tried your code at all, but you can't have sub-PHP tags inside of PHP. For instance, you can't do this:
<?php $hello = <?php the_function(); ?> ?>With your code above, try this:
<?php query_posts('showposts=10');?>
<?php $posts = get_posts('tag='.the_time('jmY').'&numberposts=10&offset=0');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>"><?php $key="alttitle"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?></a>
<?php endforeach; ?>
Posted 9 months ago #
I realized another error. You're using "the_time()" function and need to use "get_the_time()". The former echos the time while the latter returns it. It may not make sense but this is what I'd do:
<?php query_posts('showposts=10');?>
<?php $time = get_the_time('jmY'); ?>
<?php $posts = get_posts('tag='.$time.'&numberposts=10&offset=0');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>"><?php $key="alttitle"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?></a>
<?php endforeach; ?>
Posted 9 months ago #
Sorry for the plethora of posts. get_the_time() is a loop function so most likely wouldn't work in this situation anyways.
Posted 9 months ago #
Seems to work! Thanks so much!
Posted 9 months ago #
Sorry, one more thing.
I'm trying to use another custom field rather than having to have the date as a tag.
<?php query_posts('showposts=10');?>
<?php $time = the_time('dmY'); ?>
<?php $key2="releasedate"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key2, true); ?>
<?php $posts = get_posts(''.$key2.'='.$time.'&numberposts=10&offset=0');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>"><?php $key="filmtitle"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?></a>
<?php endforeach; ?>In theory, this should display the 'filmtitle' custom field of 10 posts which have todays date (ddmmyyyy) as their custom field 'releasedate' but it seems to just show any posts which have a 'filmtitle' field at all.
Thanks for all your help.
Charlie
Don't think you're checking the $key before parsing it, you're just saying what the key is then returning it, rather then checking it matches before parsing it.
Think you'll need to use...
$key = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Key name', true);
if($key)
{ echo $key; }
Posted 9 months ago #
To get posts that only have a given custom field title (metakey), add meta_key=some to the "query_posts".
For example:
<?php query_posts('meta_key=films'); ?>That will restrict the loop to posts having the given meta key.
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