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I’ve been banging my head to try and get this to work.

I basically want to display all posts entered 3 days ago, or 4 days ago.  This needs to be dynamic so that it’s always 3 or 4 days ago from the current date.

Could someone show me what this code would look like?

Have you started with the PHP code on the User Guide page that shows how to generate a dynamic date for the “start_on” parameter?

Yes, i’ve looked at all of that - i still can’t seem to put it all together though.  I was hoping someone could post something that I could copy and paste that literally shows how to display all posts that occured 3 days ago.  I could tweak it from there to get it to do what I needed.

Have you tried doing a whole bunch of code and it’s not working, or you’re just stumped on how you’d begin? I’m not a PHP wizard by a long shot (so I have no template to give you, sorry.) But wouldn’t it just involve using some PHP date math:

<?php
$three_days_ago  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")-3, date("Y"));
?>

... and then setting ‘start_on’ to $three_days_ago? Actually you’d have to generate two PHP variables: the start date/time and the end date/time, to drop into ‘start_on’ and ‘stop_before.’

(Above code is from http://ca.php.net/date by the way)

Maybe post what you’ve got here and let us take a look at it?

Here’s what I’ve been using.  The cutoff works just fine.. I just want to find a way to set the start_on. 

{exp:weblog:entries orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="16" weblog="foo" 
          
<?php 
$cutoff_date = 
date("Y-m-d H:i", mktime(date("H"), date("i"), 0, date("m"), date("d")-3, date("Y")) ); 

echo ' start_on="' , $cutoff_date, '" '; ?> 
}