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Hello,

I’m trying to create a week based archive in ExpressionEngine. For as far I can see there isn’t a native solution available, such as the Archive Month Links Tag:
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/archive_month_links.html

Does anyone know a good way to achieve this?
Thanks in advance!
Jef

Hey Jef,

Michael Boyink over at Train-ee wrote an article highlighting what you’re trying to do.

Let me know if you think his solution will work for you.

Thanks.

Hi Kyle,
Thanks for the link! The solution almost works.
Somehow entries posted in week 29 are filtered out in week 28.
Do you have any idea why this happens?
Thanks!
Jef

Hey Jefinho,

Would you mind showing me what you have for your template code?

Are your time settings correct? When you post an entry, do it show the correct date and time?

Thank you,

Thanks for your responds.
Entry’s are posted at the correct day, but an incorrect time (2 hours earlier). The setting for my server time zone under ‘Localization settings’ is ‘(UTC) Greenwich Time, Western European Time’. Since this website is used mostly in Western Europe, I thought that was alight. Changing it to ‘UTC +2:00” doesn’t fix the time-problem. All entries are registered 2 hours earlier than they were really sent.

So here’s the code that generates the week-menu:

exp:channel:entries dynamic="no" channel="nieuws" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="53" disable="member_data|pagination|categories|custom_fields" show_future_entries="yes"}
   {date_heading display="weekly"} 
   <option value="{path='nieuws'}/{segment_2}/{week_date format="%YW%W"}">week {week_date format="%W - %Y"}</option>
   {/date_heading}
   {/exp:channel:entries}

And here the list of entries for the selected week:

<?php
   if ($this->EE->uri->segment(3) === FALSE)
   {
    // current date
        $entryDate = date("Y-m-d");
   }
   else
   {
       $entryDate = $this->EE->uri->segment(3);
   } 
   ?> 
   {exp:channel:entries channel="nieuws" dynamic="no" disable="member_data|trackbacks" status="open" show_future_entries="yes" start_on="<?php echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("$entryDate")) . " 00:00"; ?>" stop_before="<?php echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("$entryDate"."7")) . " 24:00"; ?>"}
   {if no_results}
   <li>no results message here </li>
   {/if}
   <li>news item here</li>
   {/exp:channel:entries}

I don’t know if this is the best way to do this. However the ‘start_on’ and ‘stop_before’ parameters DO work. They do filter out the correct entry’s with the corresponding week.
I hope you can help me out.
Thanks!
Jef

Anyone…?

Hi Jefinho,

Sorry for your delays, we don’t have staff over the weekends!

Localization in ExpressionEngine can be tricky.

In Admin->Localization the timezone needs to be accurate for the server that is running EE. Them, each member can be allowed to set their own timezone, or forced to honor EE’s setting.

Regarding your solution above, is it doing what you need? Are you getting the results you want?

Cheers,

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the reply. I understand you don’t have staff over the weekends.
Unfortunately I don’t get the results I want.
The weird thing is, using Boyink’s idea, I get a different result than using php + some general EE tags.

However the ‘start_on’ and ‘stop_before’ parameters are giving me the correct result. All entries within a specific week are filtered out.
However, by the following code (Boyink) all entry’s are filtered out one week earlier:

exp:channel:entries dynamic="no" channel="nieuws" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="53" disable="member_data|pagination|categories|custom_fields" show_future_entries="yes"}
   {date_heading display="weekly"} 
   <option value="{path='nieuws'}/{segment_2}/{week_date format="%YW%W"}">week {week_date format="%W - %Y"}</option>
   {/date_heading}
   {/exp:channel:entries}

I’m not sure if this has to do with time settings, since all entries have the correct publish day.
I hope someone can help me out.

Thanks,
Jef

Hey Jef,

You might need to set the start_day= and display_by= parameters:

{exp:channel:entries dynamic="no" channel="nieuws" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="53" disable="member_data|pagination|categories|custom_fields" display_by="week" start_day="Monday" show_future_entries="yes"}
   {date_heading display="weekly"} 
   <option value="{path='nieuws'}/{segment_2}/{week_date format="%YW%W"}">week {week_date format="%W - %Y"}</option>
   {/date_heading}
   {/exp:channel:entries}

Does that help?

Cheers,

Hi Dan,

That does help!
Thanks a lot!

Hey Jef,

Glad to see Dan was able to help you out.

Do you have any more questions?

Thanks.

Hi Kyle,
No more questions.
Thanks

Great! If you have any more issues, feel free to start a new thread, Jef.

Thanks!