I have two related questions.

1. - ExpressionEngine allows you to dynamically filter entries by a date passed in the URL like:

However, I cannot find this documented in the EE User Guide. If it is documented in the EE User Guide, could someone please give me a link to the doc page? If not, can this be added to the docs?

2. - Can URL date filtering be used to show entries in a specified date RANGE? If so, how?

Thank you,
PJ

Hi Visiluna,

You can certainly pass that info to the channel entries tag, and the parameters are documented in the User Guide.

What is missing, however, is a solid example:

2. - Can URL date filtering be used to show entries in a specified date RANGE? If so, how?

You would need to work with your segment variables and the start_on= and stop_before= parameters, but you can use those to get a date range of entries.

Note that those parameters expect a specific format in order to work.

Cheers!

I’m not sure I was clear in what I was asking. I’m not referring to using {segment_x} variables to populate parameters.

Let me clariy.

Create a template with the following code:

Load that template by going to the URL: http://www.mysite.com/group/template/
(Please note that I have removed “index.php” for these examples because I do that on every site.)

This template with this URL produces a list of titles of all entries in the “my_stuff” channel.

Now load the same template again, but with the following URL: http://www.mysite.com/group/template/2011/12/23

This will produce a list of titles from the “my_stuff” channel, but only entries with an entry_date of 12/23/2011.

No parameters needed. This is an automatic behavior of ExpressionEngine. A behavior for which I can find no current documentation. (See question #1 in my original post.)

It is this behavior I was hoping could be used to limit display to entries within a specified date range. (Original question #2)

How might you use {segment_x} variables with the ‘start_on’ and ‘stop_before’ parameters?

I tried this:

With this URL: http://www.mysite.com/group/template/2011/12/23/2012/01/31

But it didn’t work.

No parameters needed. This is an automatic behavior of ExpressionEngine. A behavior for which I can find no current documentation. (See question #1 in my original post.)

You are correct, it is not in the User Guide.

In order for this to work, tell channel entries to ignore the URL using dynamic=“no”

That way EE won’t try to perform it’s magic automatically.

Cheers,

Hey, whaddya know. That does work!

Thanks! Just saved me a bunch of custom SQL.

PJ

Hi Visiluna,

REally glad to see that Dan was able to get you all sorted out. I’m going to close out this thread, but feel free to post again when you have more questions.

Sean