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1. Jeffery Moore
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I would think this topic would come up all the time, but I'm not seeing any answers searching Google or these forums. All I want to do is find a way to conditionally execute certain code if the loop has hit the last post available. For example:

   <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php
the_content('Read the rest of this post >');
if (!last_post()) {
echo "<hr />";
}
?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

   The last_post() function does not exist; it is what I am looking for a way to write. All this would accomplish is to exclude the horizontal divider from the very bottom of the page. Anyone have any ideas??

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Would this work?

   <?php
   $args = array(
   	'post_type' => 'post',
   	'post_status' => 'publish'
   );
   $total_posts = count(get_posts($args));
   $n=0;
   ?>
   
   <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   
   <?php
   $n++;
   the_content('Read the rest of this post >');
   if ($n < $total_posts) echo "<hr />";
   ?>
   <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

3. Jeffery Moore
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   BRILLIANT! (in the Red Bull guy voice) It works like a charm, thank you for you excellence, esmi!

4. Jeffery Moore
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Only other concern I have would be...

   This seems to work only when you have less posts than what you have set your 'limit per page' value to. If I could retrieve this number with PHP code, I know how to easily solve the problem. Googling returns hundreds of matches regarding simply setting this value in the GUI. haha

   Any ideas?

5. Jeffery Moore
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I figured out a way to get this value. I put this code above my main loop:

   //get number of posts allowed per page
$posts_per_page = 0;
while (have_posts()) {
the_post();
$posts_per_page++;
}
rewind_posts();

   There are probably simpler ways, but this one works for me!

6. Jeffery Moore
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Just one more bit to add to this.

   I had started testing my blog with more entries, but, once I got more than 5 posts added, the count() function call above would always return the number 5 no matter how many actually were there.

   I looked it up and this was because there is an argument called 'numberposts' whose default value is 5 (for some reason). Setting it to -1 fixes the issue by removing any limit in the number of posts returned by get_posts().

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