Need help with a mini-loop and categories….

  • Resolved kk4uga

    (@kk4uga)


    17 years, 2 months ago

    I am trying to list recent posts in a single category on a couple of static php pages on my site.

    Linked below is the 1st page I am working on. The list appears under “Recent Georgia Bulldogs Basketball Articles.”

    http://www.sicemdawgs.com/basketball/bk.php

    I want to list only posts in the category Basketball. Can someone help me modify the code to display only this category? Code is pasted below (I got it from WordPress.org):

    <?php
$how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once('../blog/wp-config.php'); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>
<ul class="blinks">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code>,<code>post_title</code> FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE <code>post_type</code>=\"post\" AND <code>post_status</code>=\"publish\" ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $how_many");
foreach($news as $np){
printf ("<li><a href=\"%s\">%s</a></li>", get_permalink($np->ID),$np->post_title);
} ?>
</ul>

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    What about instead of the get_results loop:

    <?php
$posts=get_posts('cat=20&showosts=5')
foreach(posts as post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php } ?>
    Thread Starter kk4uga

    (@kk4uga)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Can you check that code? I am getting the following error with it:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FOREACH in /home/sicem0/public_html/basketball/bk.php on line 67

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Sorry, that’s what I get for just throwing it out there without testing…

    <?php
$posts=get_posts('cat=1&showposts=5');
if ($posts) {
foreach($posts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php }
}
?>

    Thread Starter kk4uga

    (@kk4uga)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    That code works. However, when I put basketball in for the category, I still get the last 5 posts overall, not basketball only posts. Any suggestions?

    Thanks for your help on this.

    Thread Starter kk4uga

    (@kk4uga)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Got it, I needed the category ID instead of the name.

    Last question, I want to use an unordered list instead of the h2 code you gave me. How can I remove the spacing between the results? In the first example I posted, that did not happen. Thanks.

    http://www.sicemdawgs.com/basketball/bk.php

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    not testing this but I’d say:

    replace

    ?>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

    with

    printf ("<li><a href=\"%s\">%s</a></li>", get_permalink($post->ID),$post->post_title);
?>

    Thread Starter kk4uga

    (@kk4uga)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    That worked! Thanks a lot!

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