Stories Archive Block

razor · New Member Joined: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 22

I'm looking for a block or help creating a block that will display all the months, just like seen in the Stories_Archive module... Ty for any help

gregexp · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:31 pm

Display all the months?

Like a block that has:

January
February
.....
November
December

?
I just want to clarify.

razor · New Member Joined: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 22

Yeah, should look like this in the block...

* November, 2006
* October, 2006
* September, 2006
* August, 2006
* July, 2006
* June, 2006
* May, 2006
* April, 2006
* March, 2006
* February, 2006
* January, 2006

gregexp · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:10 pm

Do they need to point to something? Like archives or something, basically, do they need to be linked?

razor · New Member Joined: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 22

Yeah just like when click Stories Archive in the modules/navigation block, how they show all the months in there... I need the block to link all the news stories to that month just like the stories archive module...

razor · New Member Joined: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 22

If you go to

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on the left they have the block called Stories Archive... thats the block i'm looking for...

razor · New Member Joined: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 22

lol anyone have any ideas?

montego · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:34 am

I suggest that you create your own block. Take the block-Old_Articles.php as your example from a block structure standpoint, but use the code from function select_month() within modules/Stories_Archive/index.php.

razor · New Member Joined: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 22

Alright this took me a bit but i got it coded to work... anyone else who needs this block heres the code for it... Thanks all for your replies.

Code:

<?php
if (stristr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], "block-Stories_Archive.php")) {
Header("Location: ../index.php");
die();
}

global $prefix, $user_prefix, $db, $module_name;

$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT time from ".$prefix."_stories order by time DESC");
$content = "<ul>";
while($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {
$time = $row['time'];
ereg ("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2})", $time, $getdate);
if ($getdate[2] == "01") { $month = _JANUARY; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "02") { $month = _FEBRUARY; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "03") { $month = _MARCH; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "04") { $month = _APRIL; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "05") { $month = _MAY; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "06") { $month = _JUNE; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "07") { $month = _JULY; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "08") { $month = _AUGUST; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "09") { $month = _SEPTEMBER; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "10") { $month = _OCTOBER; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "11") { $month = _NOVEMBER; } elseif ($getdate[2] == "12") { $month = _DECEMBER; }
if ($month != $thismonth) {
   $year = $getdate[1];
   $content .= "<li><a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name&sa=show_month&year=$year&month=$getdate[2]&month_l=$month\">$month, $year</a>";
   $thismonth = $month;
}
}
$content .= "</ul>"
."<br><center>"
."[ <a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name&sa=show_all\">Show All</a> ]</center>";

?>

montego · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:09 am

Most excellent!

For those who are using the 3.x patches from Chatserv, you would want to replace this:

Code:

if (stristr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], "block-Stories_Archive.php")) {
Header("Location: ../index.php");
die();
}

with this:

Code:

if ( !defined('BLOCK_FILE') ) {
Header('Location: ../index.php');
die();
}