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All,

This code is doing nearly all that I need it to.

{reverse_related_entries status="open"}
                        
   {if count == 1} {!-- This ensures a heading and ul are opened once only --}
       <h5>Showtimes</h5>
<p>       <ol id="showtimes"><br />
    {/if}<br />
                        <br />
         {if '{entry_date format="%U"}' >= '{current_time format="%U"}'} {!-- This gets future entries only --}<br />
            <li>{date_heading display="daily"}{entry_date format="%l, %m-%j"}{/date_heading}</li><br />
            <li>{entry_date format="%g:%i"}</li><br />
          {/if}<br />
                                                <br />
     {if count == total_results} {!-- This closes the ul when all entries are displayed --}<br />
         </ol><br />
     {/if}<br />
                        <br />
{/reverse_related_entries}

It outputs a list of movie showtimes like so

Showtimes
<ol id="showtimes">

 <li>Thursday, 04-2</li>

 <li>4:30</li>                                                     

 <li></li>

 <li>7:00</li>

 <li></li>

 <li>9:30</li>                                     

 <li>Friday, 04-3</li>

 <li>7:00</li>

 <li>4:30</li>                                                 

 <li></li>

 <li>7:00</li>                                                     

 <li></li>

 <li>9:00</li>                                                

</ol>

I need it to nest a ol within each li (date_heading) like so,

Showtimes
<ol id="showtimes">

 <li>Thursday, 04-2

  <ul>

   <li>4:30</li>                                                     

   <li>7:00</li>

   <li>9:30</li>

  </ul>

 </li>

                                  

 <li>Friday, 04-3

  <ul>

   <li>7:00</li>

   <li>4:30</li>                                                 

   <li>7:00</li>                                                     

   <li>9:00</li>

  </ul>

 </li>

                                     

</ol>

Does anyone know how this could be achieved?

Thanks in advance,

Adam

Do you have PHP enabled for this template already? (input or output?)

Hey Adam,

You’re almost there and should be able to achieve this with a little tweaking,

I’ve noticed some list items in your example output are empty on the date_heading tag, which is correct because it’s still within the same day on that particular loop, so you should be able to use this to your advantage seing as you only want to open a new nested list every time there is a new day…

Replace:

<li>{date_heading display="daily"}{entry_date format="%l, %m-%j"}{/date_heading}</li>

With the following:

{date_heading display="daily"}{if count > 1}</ul></li>{/if}<li>{entry_date format="%l, %m-%j"}<ul>{/date_heading}

The above code should output the day on a daily basis, and open a new list after it which the list items in the code below that would then be put into. The code also closes the previous list, and you will want to add the same to the {if count == total_results} section to make sure everything is closed in the end, as follows:

{if count == total_results} {!-- This closes the ul when all entries are displayed --}
         </ul></li></ol>
     {/if}

Hopefully this should work, but it’s difficult to get my head around it without a working copy to test with in front of me!

Ahh- I thought {count} was not available in reverse_related_entries, but it appears that it is:

http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/reverse_related_entries.html (See comments)

JonnyUK,

Tried that but didn’t quite get the right result.

Showtimes
<ol id="showtimes">

</ul></li><li>Friday, 04-3<ul>

<li>7:00</li>             

</ul></li><li>Thursday, 04-9<ul>

<li>4:30</li>

<li>7:00</li>

<li>9:00</li>

</ul></li></ol>

It’s not far out, just that first </ul> and </li> is killing it.

I appreciate the help, do you have any further thoughts?

Adam

JonnyUK,

Cancel that I have it.

Changed the first conditional to

{date_heading display="daily"}{if count > 2}</ul></li>{/if}<li>{entry_date format="%l, %m-%j"}<ul>{/date_heading}

Working like a charm.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks Dan too!

Hi Adam,

haha, did suspect it may not have been exactly right, glad you’ve sorted it though!