Blog Profile archives listing not displaying on paginated pages

[Lance O.]

I'm using the getArchives() and renderArchives() functions found in the /templates/archives.php file from the Blog Profile developed by Ryan. These functions are used independently of the blog profile and have been added to a site that has already been developed in PW.

The year/month archive listing in the sidebar work fine on all blog pages expect for pages that are paginated. I'm thinking that the additional URL segment is throwing things off, but that's just a guess.

Has anyone had any experience with displaying a date-based archive listing of blog posts? The listing needs to be structured like this:

2011

  > January (1)

2010

  > June (2)

  > July (1)

  > November (1)

2009

  > November (1)

2008

  > February (1)

2006

  > January (1)

[ryan]

Without knowing the full details of your context, you mentioned you are using pagination: I would suggest checking if you need to add a "start=0" to your selector that retrieves the listing of pages for your sidebar. 

[Lance O.]

@ryan,

Sorry, I should have provided the code that I am using from your Blog site profile. I'm not sure where I would add the "start=0."

function getArchives( $year = 0, $limit = 0 ) {
    if ( $year ) {
        $firstYear = $year;
        $lastYear = $year;
    } else {
        $oldest = wire('pages')->get( "template=post, date>0, sort=date" );
        $newest = wire('pages')->get( "template=post, date>0, sort=-date" );
        if ( !$newest->id ) return '';
        $firstYear = date('Y', $oldest->getUnformatted('date'));
        $lastYear = date('Y', $newest->getUnformatted('date'));
    }
    $_limit = $limit > 1 ? (int) $limit : 2;
    $years = array();
    for ( $y = $lastYear; $y >= $firstYear; $y-- ) {
        $months = array();
        $numPostsYear = 0;
        for ( $month = 1; $month <= 12; $month++ ) {
            $firstDay = strtotime( "$y-$month-01" );
            $lastDay = strtotime( "+1 month", $firstDay ) - 1;
            $posts = wire('pages')->find( "template=post, date>=$firstDay, date<=$lastDay, limit=$_limit, sort=-date" );
            $numPosts = $posts->getTotal();
            if ( !$numPosts ) continue;
            $numPostsYear += $numPosts;
            $months[$month] = array(
                'url' => wire('config')->urls->root . "blog/archive/$y/$month/",
                'name' => strftime('%B', $firstDay),
                'posts' => $limit > 0 ? $posts : array(),
                'total' => $numPosts
                );
        }
        if(!$numPostsYear) continue;
        $years[$y] = array(
            'url' => wire('config')->urls->root . "blog/archive/$y/",
            'name' => $y,
            'total' => $numPostsYear,
            'months' => $months
            );
    }
    return $years;
}

function renderArchives(array $years) {
    $out = '';
    foreach ( $years as $year ) {
        $t = new TemplateFile(wire('config')->paths->templates . 'includes/archives.php');
        $t->set('year', $year['name']);
        $t->set('total', $year['total']);
        $t->set('months', $year['months']);
        $t->set('url', $year['url']);
        $out .= $t->render();
    }
    return $out;
}

$archives = renderArchives(getArchives());

[ryan]

You would want to include a "start=0" in a find() call that has a "limit=n" in its selector. This would be only for the results you don't want to paginate. I'm thinking this is the line: 

$posts = wire('pages')->find( "template=post, date>=$firstDay, date<=$lastDay, limit=$_limit, sort=-date, start=0" );

[Lance O.]

It works perfectly now with that tiny edit. Thanks for the insight, Ryan!