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Mikee Bee
Posted: 16 May 2008 05:48 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi all, I’ve make a basic entries loop where each entry adds a list item to a <ul> with a limit of 4. I also want to add a link to a page that displays all of the entries with a link that says “there are a total of X entries click here” (or if possible) “there are X more entries click here”

I can get the link in there but it repeats as its part of the loop PLUS I don’t want it as part of the list I want it outside.

This is what I have…

<ul class="diarydates">
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="diary" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" category="9" show_future_entries="yes" orderby="date" sort="asc"}

                      <li class="{switch="leftdl|rightdl"}"><h3>{diary-heading}</h3>
                        <p>When is it? - <strong>{entry_date format="%d%S %F %Y"}</strong></p>
                        <div class="explanation">{diary-summary}</div>
                      </li>
<p>There are a total of {total_results} Diary Dates, <a href="{title_permalink="/parents/diary/"}>Click here to see them all</a></p>
                        {/exp:weblog:entries}
                     
                    </ul>

Hope someone can help

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Emily Griffiths
Posted: 16 May 2008 05:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I would separate them

<ul class="diarydates">
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="diary" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" category="9" show_future_entries="yes" orderby="date" sort="asc"}

                      <li class="{switch="leftdl|rightdl"}"><h3>{diary-heading}</h3>
                        <p>When is it? - <strong>{entry_date format="%d%S %F %Y"}</strong></p>
                        <div class="explanation">{diary-summary}</div>
                      </li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
                     
                    </ul>

Then put this underneath

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="diary" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" category="9" show_future_entries="yes" orderby="date" sort="asc" limit="1"}

<p>There are a total of {total_results} Diary Dates, <a href="{title_permalink="/parents/diary/""}>Click here to see them all</a></p>

{/exp:weblog:entries}

The limit one means it’ll only loop once and your total results paragraph is out of the list

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Mikee Bee
Posted: 16 May 2008 05:56 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Should have mentioned I’ve tried that and since its set to show only 1 the {total_results} only says 1 : ( thanks for the suggestion though.

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Mark Bowen
Posted: 16 May 2008 06:04 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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This should do what you want :

<ul class="diarydates">
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="diary" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" category="9" show_future_entries="yes" orderby="date" sort="asc"}
<li class="{switch="leftdl|rightdl"}">
<h3>{diary-heading}</h3>
<p>When is it? - <strong>{entry_date format="%d%S %F %Y"}</strong></p>
<div class="explanation">{diary-summary}</div>
</li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>

and then :

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="diary" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" category="9" show_future_entries="yes" orderby="date" sort="asc"}
{if count == "1"}
<p>There are a total of {total_results} Diary Dates, <a href="{title_permalink="/parents/diary/""}>Click here to see them all</a></p>
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Note that I have taken out the limit=“1” on the second weblog tag so we get a count of all the entries and also placed a conditional in to only show the message on the first entry

That should do it for you I think wink

Best wishes,

Mark

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Mark Bowen
Posted: 16 May 2008 06:09 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Actually just thinking about being clever with this you could also do this on the second weblog tag :

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="diary" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" category="9" show_future_entries="yes" orderby="date" sort="asc" offset="4"}
{if count == "1"}
<p>There are {total_results} more Diary Dates, <a href="{title_permalink="/parents/diary/""}>Click here to see them all</a></p>
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Note the addition this time of the offset=“4” parameter which should hopefully now make the {total_results} variable show you a number for the second style of text link you were after

Untested but should work wink

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Posted: 16 May 2008 06:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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I’m going to put that count==“1” in my code library. Thanks Mark!

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Mikee Bee
Posted: 16 May 2008 06:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Thats perfect thanks Mark!

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Posted: 16 May 2008 06:47 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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No problem at all. Could have been done with a SQL query too I suppose but this way is slightly easier.

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Posted: 16 May 2008 06:50 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Ooop my eyes go crossed every time someone says “query” I hope to understand one day! (doozazzle)

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Posted: 16 May 2008 07:03 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Yep a query may be slightly neater in this case (may be) but I always like to use standard tags wherever I can just to make things slightly easier on the brain for myself!! wink

Hope it all goes well for you.

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