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  • geofftswin

    (@geofftswin)


    17 years, 6 months ago

    I can display my posts using the following code:

    <?php
global $post;
$mpyposts = get_posts('numberposts=2&category=6');
foreach ($mpyposts as $post):
setup_postdata($post); ?>
<?php  //to check against expiration date;

$currentdate = date("Ymd");

$expirationdate = get_post_custom_values('expiration');

if (is_null($expirationdate)) {

            $expirestring = '30005050'; //MAKE UN-EXPIRING POSTS ALWAYS SHOW UP;

} else {

if (is_array($expirationdate)) {

            $expirestringarray = implode($expirationdate);

            }

$expirestring = str_replace("/","",$expirestringarray);

} //else

 if ( $expirestring > $currentdate ) { ?>
<ul class="posts">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</ul>
<?php } //end if for expiration; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

    however I want to display them in the reverse order (most recent at bottom), so I change
    $mpyposts = get_posts('numberposts=2&category=6');
    to
    $mpyposts = get_posts('numberposts=2&category=6&order=ASC');
    and everything disappears completely. What can I do to get it to work correctly?

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  • Thread Starter geofftswin

    (@geofftswin)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    anybody got any ideas? The problem seems to be with the
    order=ASC
    filter, however I’ve used it elsewhere without problems to display a list of titles, but in this case I’m trying to display the posts themselves.

    Vaughan

    (@vaughan-van-dyk)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I can’t fully test your code unfortunately because you’re using various custom values in there, but whenever using the order parameter, I also like to add the orderby parameter so that there can be no doubt as to what it should sort on.

    So perhaps try the following:

    $mpyposts = get_posts('numberposts=2&category=6&order=ASC&orderby=date');

    Good luck.
    Vaughan

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