Hide "already shown" entry on exp:weblog:entries

#1 / Mar 11, 2008 12:48am

mogya

11 posts

Hi all.

On my site I want to show 1 random entry at first and another entries sorting by date.

entry3 < random
entry1 < by date
entry2     :
entry4
entry5

I wrote like this:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myblog" orderby="random" limit="1"}
  //show 1 entry
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myblog" orderby="date"}
  //show another entries
{/exp:weblog:entries}

However in this way, 1 entry appeared 2 times(once by random,once by date).

entry3 < random
entry1
entry2
entry3 < second time!
entry4
entry5

Q: Is there any way to hide this article at the second time?

I tried to use Dynamically Assigned Variables but it didn’t work…

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myblog" orderby="random" limit="1"}
  //show 1 entry
  {assign_variable:shown_entry="{entry_id}"}//keep "shown" entry_id
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myblog" orderby="date" entry_id="not {shown_entry}"}
  //show another entries
{/exp:weblog:entries}

#2 / Mar 31, 2008 2:53pm

matt romaine

50 posts

hi mogya,

have you tried turning on PHP processing? If you select PHP post-processing (on output) for the template, you could do something like:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myblog" orderby="random" limit="1"}
    //show 1 entry
    <?php $shown_entry_id = {entry_id};?>  //keep "shown" entry_id
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myblog" orderby="date"}
    <?php if($shown_entry_id != {entry_id}):?>
        //show  entry
    <?php endif;?>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

I haven’t tested it, but with the correct settings the above should do what you’re looking for.

#3 / Apr 02, 2008 12:35am

mogya
11 posts

Thanks! I got working with this code!

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