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http://www.cca.daltontestweb.com/index.php/calendar

I’d like to get my calendar to start on today’s month. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong, but I’m not sure what. Currently is starts at the oldest entry (August), but I’d like it to start in October (the current month)

Here’s my weblog entries pair code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="calendar" show_expired="yes" show_future_entries="yes" display_by="month" sort="asc" orderby="date" paginate="bottom" limit="1" dynamic="on"}

... stuff here ...

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Hi,
Have you tried looking at the “start_on” parameter?

http://expressionengine.com/legacy_docs/modules/weblog/parameters.html#par_start_on

Then you can use current time

http://expressionengine.com/legacy_docs/templates/globals/single_variables.html#var_current_time

see if that helps…

Yes, I did try that. However it doesn’t work as expected. I’ve added it in so you can see:

http://www.cca.daltontestweb.com/index.php/calendar

Thanks for the assist, JoAnn.

Dalton Agency, I’m not seeing a traditional EE calendar here. Are you talking about the items off to the right?

I’m not using a the calendar tag, I’m just using a regular weblog. Is not so much a calendar as a list of events displayed by month. Is the thing on the left. Not to the right.

Hi Dalton Agency,

To do this sort of thing you are going to need to use some PHP in the template to set the start_on=”“ and stop_before=”“ parameters dynamically as I don’t believe there will be another way of doing this.

Does that help at all?

Thanks,

Mark

Is there some example PHP code you can point me to?

Would this be better to do with the Calendar tags instead?

Hi, DA - did you see the Common Uses part of the documentation for start_on?  That should help you get started.

I do think the channel entries tag is best for this.

I tried that and got a weird error.

So I made a very simple PHP thingy. I changed the Template Preferences to Allow PHP and Parse Inward.

This is the snipit of code:

That I added

<?php
        $start_time = Hello;
?>

<?php echo $start_time; ?>

THIS IS THE ERROR MESSAGE:
http://www.cca.daltontestweb.com/index.php/calendar

Notice: Use of undefined constant Hello - assumed ‘Hello’ in /home/ccadalton/cca.daltontestweb.com/praise/core/core.functions.php(663) : eval()‘d code on line 7
Hello

I am okay at editing PHP that already exists, but I am by no means a PHPer. This may be the reason I am having trouble.

Also I responded with a different user account I use for personal things, the OP is me, just from my work place user account.

Sorry for any confusion.

Hrm- think you should be fine with just:

start_on="{current_time format='%Y-%m-01 00:00'}"

Year and month are dynamic, hard code the day and time to beginning of the month.

Dear Robin,

Thank You!

How do I keep pagination working though?

Hi gofreshdesign,

Using Robin’s suggested parameter in your weblog tag, does pagination stop working? Or did it not work before at all?

Are you including the necessary tags according to the User Guide article on weblog pagination?