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Hello, I’m new to EE and building my first set of templates.  I’m trying to pass the ‘year’ in the URL
../news/press-releases/2012

I don’t get any results. But if I hard-code the year in the channel tag, the results display fine.

{exp:channel:entries channel="press_release"
 dynamic_parameters="year"
 year="{segment_3}" 
 orderby="entry_date" 
 sort="desc"
 disable="member_data|paginate"
}
<li>{entry_date format="%m/%d/%y"} - {title}</li>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Thanks for your assistance.

Hi lamaison,

The 2012 at the end of your URL would refer to the entry_id. So your channel:entries tag is looking for entry_id=“2012”, which most likely doesn’t exist yet, hence the no result.  EE defaults to the following scheme:

domain/index.php/template-group/template/entry_id

Setting the dynamic_parameter also is problematic here, as it is used to grab POST data. So unless you are sending POST data to template, say via a form to choose the year, then it isn’t doing what you expect.

There’s no reason why you can’t just pass a date variable via the URL like you’re doing, and then pick it up in a parameter. I use search:year=”{segment_3}” style parameters all the time.

So something like this might work for you:

{exp:channel:entries channel="press_release"
 search:year="{segment_3}" 
 orderby="entry_date" 
 sort="desc"
 disable="member_data|paginate"
}
<li>{entry_date format="%m/%d/%y"} - {title}</li>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Best of luck with EE!

-jim

Thanks for your assistance.

In first test,  I had setup a form that passed the year, and it worked fine.  But then I switched it to URL, and could not get it to work. As I clearly did not have it setup right.

I changed it to your example and it still did not return any records.

sample
domain/I removed index.php/news/press-releases/2012

{exp:channel:entries channel="press_release"
 status="open" 
 search:year="{segment_3}" 
 orderby="entry_date" 
 sort="desc"
 disable="member_data|paginate"
}

while domain/I removed index.php/news/press-releases still returns my 3 demo records

Ok, let’s try a little bit different:

{exp:channel:entries channel="press_release"
 dynamic="no"
 status="open" 
 year="{segment_3}" 
 orderby="entry_date" 
 sort="desc"
 disable="member_data|paginate"
}

The dynamic=“no” tag tells the channel:entries tag to not use url segments to fetch data. But the year=”{segment_3}” tag should grab that data and use it. See if that works for you.

I was assuming that you were using “year” as a custom field, which was how I constructed my publish form (I was building collections of films from certain years). But if you are using the entry_date field to pull your “year” data from, then year=”{segment_3}”  is the correct way to do it.

-jim

Thanks Jim, it works perfect, and yes I am using the entry_date to pull the “year” data. 

It’s clear I still have a lot to learn on the Channel tag.

Thanks again.

Glad it worked for you! And there’s always something new to learn about EE, everyday.

-j