Hi all!

I’m trying to show a list of the last 5 entries from today’s date.  I’m not sure how to do this.  I think if you look at the code you can see what I’m trying to put together.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far….

What I’m getting is just the last 5 entries, not the last 5 from todays date.  Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed. 

Thank you!!

-Bill

I’m not really sure, but perhaps something in this thread is appropriate?  I’m a bit tired so that may not be what you’re after… =)

Thank you LisaJill!

I tried the suggestions but I still wasn’t able to grab the entries from today’s date; although the thread you linked to /is/ exactly what I am aiming for.

This is what I’m trying to do.

oops.  wrong url.  try this one: http://www.edgartown.mv.k12.ma.us/index.php/main/lunch/

you linked back to this thread….

The solution to that was Chris’ baby, but if you can say WHAT about it didn’t work and the exact code you tried, I an give it a shot.. =)

Hiya LisaJill

Here’s the code I just tried (taken from the post you noted)

(I have php turned on input, and $current_time is being parsed correctly)

Instead of giving me what I want, which is 5 days of lunches from today’s date, I get the last 5 days of entries.

This is not a critical aspect of the site, but it would be neat for parents and kids to be able to see this weeks lunches.

tia!

Bill

Oh!  It’s showing the past rather than the future… did you try setting show_future_entries=“yes” ?

Ah…

I made sure show_future_entries, and the same thing…but now it’s showing only the last 5 entries I entered…not the 5 entries from the current date. 

Did you see the plaintext url I posted?  I think it shows what I want to do…

Thank you LisaJill, I really appreciate your help

Yea I saw it, I understand what you want to do….  I have something similar happening on my event calendar but I only need the entries for the month showing, not just future ones, so I haven’t really delved into it. :(  I’m not sure why it’s doing that.. are there 5 entries in the nexxt 5 days?

Hiya LisaJill

There sure are…I think I have about 7 from todays date (Sept 8th)

Thanks again!

-Bill

Hi LisaJill!

Any suggestions?   I’m sure it is straight forward, I can’t seem to see this solution.

Warmly,

Bill

Unfortunately no; this eclipses my experience so I’m not sure.  Perhaps playing with the sort order may help, but I’m not sure.  I am curious if you didn’t have 5 entries in the past if it would show 5 entries in the future   But it’s a live site so playing with that may not be an option.

Hm, this might work, but I will have to go create a bunch of test entries to go test it.

<?php

global $LOC;
$current_time = date(‘Y-m-d H:i’, $LOC->now);
$future_time = date(‘Y-m-d H:i’, $LOC->now+60*60*24*5);

?>

{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“lunch” limit =“5” start_on=”<?php echo $current_time; ?>” stop_before=”<?php echo $future_time; ?>” show_future_entries=“yes”}

Seems to display five entries from the next five days for me.  bmackenty, if you could test it out, I would be much obliged.

Brilliant.  Just right.

I had to make one very small change, though:

I added sort=asc, so the entries were in order. 
Please feel free to visit our school lunch page to see this wonderful code in action.

Thank you everyone!!

-Bill

Ooo, nice.  You might consider putting the day of the week next to the lunch so they know which day it is coming exactly.