New template page with articles from one single category

[Mischa]

Making a new template page, copying post.template.

But I want it to display articles from only ONE category.

My head spinning, but I suppose somebody has already made this, and could tell me how to do it...?

[jondaley]

You'll want the getcategory plugin - normal pages only have access to the last 10-15 posts, and you'll probably want the last 10 or so posts in that category, no matter how old they are.

[Mischa]

WOW - superduper ;)

http://www.xn--skyddamiljn-0fb.nu/static/1/help
Brings the one and only article from a category. Thus, I am able to let the menu item "Första hjälpen" to light up ;)

Stripped code in getcategory plugin example contains only one thing i don't understand:

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{if $getcategory}
 <div id="content">
  {assign var="pressarticles"
          value=$getcategory->getArticles("Första Hjälpen", 3)}
  {foreach from=$pressarticles item=pa}

    {assign var="postTitle" value=$pa->getTopic()}
    {assign var="permLink" value=$url->postPermalink($pa)}
       {$pa->getText()}

  {/foreach}
 </div>
{/if}


What is the "3" in this line?:

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          value=$getcategory->getArticles("Första Hjälpen", 3)}


[jondaley]

it gets a max of 3 articles from that category.

[Mischa]

it gets a max of 3 articles from that category.

Duh me!
Nice. And I think a zero gets all articles from that category...

[jondaley]

-1 is the official way to get all of the articles, but I checked the code, and 0 would work also.

[Mischa]

Superb. I really like this function/plugin.

BUT - i try a simple thing inside the getcategory code, namely to attach the article date above the text of the article.
No matter what I do (noob as I am to LifeType API...), the result is blank page, no articles are gotten.

Somewhere i want to add something like:

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$article->setDateObject($article->getDateObject());


And then display it in a line above the article text.

But how?

[jondaley]

What are you trying to do? If you are calling ...set(...get()) that doesn't really make any sense, since if you can call get on it, that means you don't need to call set, since the data is already there...

[Mischa]

I only want to:
"attach the article date above the text of the article", the article gathered by the getcategory plugin...

[jondaley]

The date should already be set on the object returned by the getcategory plugin, so you should be able to simply call:
$date = $article->getDate() which will return a number, that you can pass into php's date() function, or you can use $timestamp = $article->getDateObject() which will return a (LifeType) Timestamp object that you can call $timestamp->getMInutes() etc to get the parts you want.