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Alastair
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Mar 31, 2006, 6:39 AM
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Only show current listings (hide old ones)
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Is there a neat way of hiding old listings ?
I'm using LM for a simple entertainments listing (www.dorchesterarts.org.uk). The view is sorted by date so you see the oldest first, but obviously there's no point in lisitng events which have already taken place. Currently we go in and hide or delete them, but it would be much more useful if it only showed current and future events, automatically hiding them when their date has passed. Any thoughts ?
Alastair 
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Donna
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Mar 31, 2006, 1:30 PM
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Re: [Alastair] Only show current listings (hide old ones)
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Hey Alastair,
Thanks for your post. :)
I came up with an interesting way to force a search results link to only show listings from today forward. It involves using an SSI to output a date format, which would be saved in a specific format in your listing.
The first thing you need to do is make sure that "echo" commands in Server Side Include pages work. For this, make a test page on your server (remember to give it a .shtml extension) with the following in it:
<!--#config timefmt="%Y%m%d" -->
<!--#echo var="date_local" -->
This should output the date in a format that looks like this: 20060331
Once you've confirmed that this works, enter a new field into Listing Manager for the date. I wouldn't recommend using the existing date field, because this one needs to be formatted exactly in YYYYMMDD format in order to sort correctly. In my example, I'll assume this is in lfield1.
Once you've got the date entered in that format, create a link to it like this:
<!--#config timefmt="%Y%m%d" -->
<a href="/path/to/exec/search.cgi?search=1&lfield1_min=<!--#echo var="date_local" -->&lfield1_max=20200101>search link</a>
The "config" part can go anywhere, but the "echo" variable must stay where it is. What this does is creates a custom link to the search results that will update based on the date. The max, I set to a date well into the future. (If your site still exists in 2020... you may want to update this.) ;)
Alternately, on a standard search form page, you could enter the following:
<input type="hidden" name="lfield1_min" value="<!--#echo var="date_local" -->">
<input type="hidden" name="lfield1_max" value="20200101">
This way, once you hit "Submit", it will pass these hidden values through, but fill in the date into the "minimum" part of the range.
Let me know if this works for you, or if you have any problems with it!
Donna
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(This post was edited by Donna on Apr 11, 2006, 5:25 PM)
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