Benjamin
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Mar 30, 2003, 10:51 AM
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Hi everyone,
Here's a little script that allows you to put a link to "Today's Articles". It's easily modifiable to retrieve a different day, but hopefully it'll get you guys started. :-)
Between your <head></head> tags of your page, put the following code:
<script language="javascript">
<!--
// the following calculates the current date
var today = new Date();
yr = today.getYear();
mon = today.getMonth();
dy = today.getDate();
// a little function to populate the values in the todays_articles form, and
// submit it.
function getTodaysArticles() {
document.todays_articles.mon.value = mon+1;
document.todays_articles.day.value = dy;
document.todays_articles.year.value = yr;
document.todays_articles.mon2.value = mon+1;
document.todays_articles.day2.value = dy;
document.todays_articles.year2.value = yr;
todays_articles.submit();
}
-->
</script>
Then, within your page, put the following:
<form method="get" name="todays_articles" action="http://www.yoursite.com/path/to/search.cgi">
<input type="hidden" name="search" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="perpage" value="10">
<input type="hidden" name="mon" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="day" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="year" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="mon2" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="day2" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="year2" value="">
<a href="#" onclick="getTodaysArticles();">View Today's Articles</a>
</form>
Now, when you click on "View Today's Articles", it'll return only those articles for the current date.
Drawbacks / concerns: (or 'disclaimer', depending on how you look at it ;-)
- It's written in javascript. So it won't work for javascript-disabled browsers.
- It assumes that the visitor's computer has the correct time and date - it retrieves articles based on the client's computer's clock.
- It doesn't account for different time zones.
Besides that, it should work fine! I've attach a demo html file to this post.
Ben
interactivetools.com
(This post was edited by Benjamin on Apr 2, 2003, 9:26 AM)
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