Remove First Month

  • Resolved fear26700

    (@fear26700)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    Hello fellow WordPress forum members!

    I have a PHP script I’m using to display a list of all posts in an archive, and dividing the list into months, but I would really like to know how can I remove the first month from rendering with PHP. Here is my current code:

    <?php
$prev_date = NULL;
$date = NULL;
?>
<?php query_posts("posts_per_page=-1&order=DESC"); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php
$date  = get_the_time('m.Y');
if($date != $prev_date)
{
$prev_date = $date;
echo "<li class='month'>";
echo get_the_time('F');
echo "</li>";
}
?>

    At this moment, and for the time being, I’m using CSS3 to hide the first child element with a class of “month”, since individual months get a class of “month”, but I would like to remove the markup all together.

    Thanks in advanced!

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Since you didn’t really explain what first month means, check the Time Parameters section of the query posts article.

    query_posts()

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    this could work:

    if($date != $prev_date)
{
  if($prev_date != NULL)
  {
  echo "<li class='month'>";
  echo get_the_time('F');
  echo "</li>";
  }
$prev_date = $date;
}
    Thread Starter fear26700

    (@fear26700)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    alchymyth,

    I don’t know how that works, but it works! haha. Thanks a lot!

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    you want to know?

    – when you start off, the $prev_date is set to NULL;
    – you get the first result from the query;
    – you go to the first if statement for the first time; and the result is obviously that the $date is already set to something, while $prev_date is still NULL;
    you go to the second if statement for the first time; and $prev_date is still NULL, so the if is false and does not do the thing in the brackets (i.e. it is skipping your first date);
    – then you set $prev_date equal to $date;
    – next round, $prev_date is not NULL anymore …

    Thread Starter fear26700

    (@fear26700)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Interesting…thanks again alchymyth

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