Show only last 4 blog posting - feindura

Antoinne

Maybe easy, but I thought I would ask here. How can I get this to only display the last 4 posting of a subcategory instead of all of the subcategories. I don't want my page to get to long. I used the code that came with feindura, and I don't fully understand php, but I use trial and error. Can you help me.

if($currentPage['id'] == 10) {
 
 
                    $feindura->titleAsLink = true;
                    $pagesWithDate = $feindura->listPageByDate(true,true,'category',$currentPage['subCategoryId'],50);
 
 
                    echo '<<br>><<hr>>';
 
 
                    foreach ($pagesWithDate as $pageWithDate) {
                        echo '<<h2>>'.$pageWithDate['title'].'<</h2>>';
                        echo $pageWithDate['pageDate'];
                        echo $pageWithDate['content'];
                        echo '<<br>><<br>><<hr>>';
                    }
                }

frozeman

hi,

first why you use the double <<?

to show only the last 4 postings you have to count and then break the foreach loop like this:

...
 
$count = 1;
foreach ($pagesWithDate as $pageWithDate) {
  echo '<h2>'.$pageWithDate['title'].'</h2>';
  echo $pageWithDate['pageDate'];
  echo $pageWithDate['content'];
  echo '<br><br><hr>';
 
  if($count == 4)
    break;
  else
    $count++;
}

Antoinne

Great! Thanks, and I only used the double << on here to get the code to show instead of rendering the code. <br />

frozeman

nice that it helps.

Antoinne

Hopefully this will be the last time I have a question on this project. I want to change the more link that is added at the end of the blog posting snippets. I have been crawling files and I haven't found it yet. Can you point me in the direction so that I can change the "... more" to "...interesting"

frozeman

hi Antoinne,

parameter number 5 ($shortenText) of the listPagesByDate() method says:

(optional) number of the maximal text length displayed, adds a "more" link at the end or FALSE to not shorten. You can also pass an array: value 1: text length as int, value 2: text string for the link, or a link string.

e.g. array(23,false), array(23,'read more'), or array(23,'<a href="%href%"'> read more'). (the %href% will be replaced by the pages href)

So in case you want to add another text just write: array(100,'read more').
If you want to add a button image or so use array(100,'<a href="%href%"><img ...></a>')

hope that helps,
fabian

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