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Hello,

It’s my first post here and I am new to EE, but developing my forst website with it is going quite well. But now I am a little bit stuck on small issue.

I have a “news” channel with multiple categories. On “news/index” page I want to display 4 latest news (NO MATTER THE CATEGORY) in a form of banner and after that I want to display a box for each category with latest news from that category.

I have accomplished all of that using:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="4" sort="desc"}
{/exp:channel:entries}

for the banner.

And:

{exp:channel:categories channel="news" style="linear"}
    {exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="2" sort="desc" category="{category_id}"}
    {/exp:channel:entries}
{/exp:channel:categories}

to display news from each category.

The only problem that I have is this. If I have a post displayed in main banner (with 4 latest news) I don’t want to display it in categories box. I can use code like:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="2" sort="desc" category="{category_id}" entry_id="not <entry_banner_id_1>|<entry_banner_id_2>|<entry_banner_id_3>|<entry_banner_id_4>"}

But I do not know how to save entries that I have used in the first {exp:channel:entries} and use is as entry_id parameter in second {exp:channel:entries}.

Here is my code:

<?php $usedEntries = array(); ?>
{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="4" sort="desc"}
    <?php $usedEntries[] = "{entry_id}"; ?>
{/exp:channel:entries}
<?php $usedEntries = implode('|', $usedEntries); ?>
{exp:channel:categories channel="news" style="linear"}
    {exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="2" sort="desc" category="{category_id}" entry_id="not <?php echo $usedEntries; ?>"}
    {/exp:channel:entries}
{/exp:channel:categories}

But this does not work because of order in which php and ee tags are processed.

Does anyone have any suggestions how I can solve this.

Thanks in Advance

hi, taktic -welcome to our community!

First: this ability isn’t available out of the box.

You might be able to use something like the String add-on, along with entry_id=“not #” to achieve this.

I’m going to also shift this down to community help for community input on this customization.

Thanks!