Passing month and year values from path generated by Archive Month Links tag into channel entries tag to display appropriate month.

#1 / Dec 18, 2011 8:03pm

darrenlc

11 posts

From the Archive Month Links Tag page in the EE documentation I have set up my links like this:

<h2><span>News Archives</span></h2>
<p>   {exp:channel:month_links channel="news-items" limit="50"}<br />
    <a href="http://{path=site/news-archives}">{month}, {year}</a><br />
   <br />
   {/exp:channel:month_links}

On this same page I have my news items appearing using the following code:

{exp:channel:entries
     channel="news-items"
     disable="categories|category_fields|trackbacks"
     dynamic="off"
     require_entry="yes"
     limit="19"
     paginate="bottom"
     paginate_base="/news"
     }
             
      <li><h3><a href="http://{title_permalink=news-item}">{title}</a></h3>
<p>      <input type="hidden" value="" name="news_id">{entry_date format="%n/%j/%Y"} - </li><br />
     {paginate}<br />
      </ul><br />
      </p>

<p>       {pagination_links}<br />
        {current_page} of {total_pages}<br />
       <br />
     {/paginate}<br />
    {/exp:channel:entries}

I have not been able to find in the documentation how to take the month and year values from the path generated by the Archive Month Links tag and use them within my news-items entries so that only the entries from the selected month/year appear.

Could someone point me in the right direction on this?

#2 / Dec 18, 2011 8:28pm
Rob Allen
3114 posts
The channel:month tag should insert year and month values into the url automatically, eg so you end up with something like /site/news-archives/2011/12

You can then query segment 3 and 4 in your channel entries tag like this:
```
{exp:channel:entries channel="news-items" year="{segment_3}" month="{segment_4}"}
```
#3 / Dec 19, 2011 9:48am
darrenlc
11 posts
Thank you very much!

Also, is there a way to have only distinct years show up in the Archive Month Links tag? So like a “select distinct” using SQL.

Right now if I simply delete the month parameter like this…
```
{exp:channel:entries
channel="news-items"
year="{segment_3}"
```
...then the links are appearing like this:

2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010 ... etc.
#4 / Dec 19, 2011 10:46am
darrenlc
11 posts
Sorry for the unnecessary last question. I overlooked the {year_heading} section in the docs. Here is the code for anyone interested:
```
{exp:channel:month_links channel="news-items" limit="50"}
    {year_heading}
    <a href="http://{path=site/news-archives}">{year}</a>
 
    {/year_heading}  
   {/exp:channel:month_links}
```

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