How can I filter a blog view to display only future events?

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12 years 9 months ago #28705 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic How can I filter a blog view to display only future events?

What if FLEXIcontent module had
-(a) pagination and
-(b) order by custom field?

you not be able to use a category template
but
you could copy the news.php module template and shape close to your needs

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12 years 9 months ago #28709 by grabit

Replied by grabit on topic How can I filter a blog view to display only future events?

Yes but I find the module a bit slower than the blog. (it is only an impression).

But I think I am close to find the solution with the Micker proposal the only problem is the datetime and the Timezone problem. This was not present in Joomla 1.5 and FC 1.5.6.

Code:

<?php for ($i=0; $i<$leadnum; $i++) :
$enddate = $items[$i]->fields['Dfin']->display;
$enddate = new DateTime($enddate);
$enddate = $enddate->format('Ymd');
$now = date('Ymd', strtotime('+1 day'));
if( $now <= $enddate) :
?>

new DateTime($enddate); gives me an error 500 with this message:

DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (9 janvier 2013) at position 5 (v): The timezone could not be found in the database

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12 years 9 months ago #28724 by micker

Replied by micker on topic How can I filter a blog view to display only future events?

oups my solution is for fc 1.5.6 .. sorry

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12 years 9 months ago #28726 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic How can I filter a blog view to display only future events?

What is the format of your date field??

- first go to the edit flexicontent field and make sure it is outputting in a acceptable format, e,g for J2.5:
(a) select custom format,
(b) with format string d/m/Y

then if you have some dates that maybe invalid

you could use :

Code:

try {
    $enddate = new DateTime($enddate);
}
catch(Exception $e) {
    // catches 'Failed to parse time string 
   $enddate = false;  // Do not use this
}

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12 years 9 months ago #28731 by micker

Replied by micker on topic How can I filter a blog view to display only future events?

my format is
%Y%m%d
paybe the problem

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12 years 9 months ago #28737 by grabit

Replied by grabit on topic How can I filter a blog view to display only future events?

Well with the code from GGPPDK the error 500 is gone but now I have a white page with 3 articles and I lost all my website around flexicontent.

Here is a picture with part of the output code underneath.

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