Frog CMS - Archive by year problem

Archive by year problem

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Jul 24, 2009 03:00 mycooluk 10 posts	I’ve setup a new news page on a site I’m building, and wanting to have an “archive by year” section showing just links to the archived news stories by year rather than month…I’m using this code in a sidebar… `<?php $article = $this->find('news'); ?> <?php $archives = $article->archive->archivesByYear(); ?>` `<h1>Archives By Year:</h1> <ul> <?php foreach ($archives as $date): ?> <li><a href="<?php echo BASE_URL . $this->url .'/'. $date . URL_SUFFIX; ?>"><?php echo strftime('%Y', strtotime(strtr($date, '/', '-'))); ?></a></li> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul>` Which works – I get 4 nice links in a list…however, they all say 2009 and not 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009…is there something I’m missing? Or is it because I’ve just created them all now (in 2009) and then reset the created/published dates in frog and its confused it?

Jul 24, 2009 23:07 modernclics 31 posts	Yes, I’d leave the real dates as they are, I’d not conside this a bug.

Aug 12, 2009 11:54 BlueFrog 184 posts	mycooluk, You can in fact edit the created and submitted dates manually. The metadata tab (next to the page title tab) has these date fields that you can override for your convenience. Hope that helps.

Aug 19, 2009 05:48 mycooluk 10 posts	Thanks bluefrog – I have already manually changed each story’s date…what I need to know is how to make the links show the relevant year, rather than all 4 saying 2009 (but linking to the correct page)…seems to me the system is ignoring my altered created/submitted dates and just displaying 2009 because thats when they were all created.

Aug 19, 2009 06:37 David 1493 posts	@mycooluk – what date(s) did you change in the Metadata? You have the options of manually editing either or both the “created” and the “published” date. If you only changed the latter, that would explain it. The archive plugin is hard-coded to look for the “created_on” date. So — either you need to hack the plugin code¹ (not recommended :) or manually alter the “created” date in the metadata. Unless there is something else going on, of course! ¹ In frog/plugins/archive/archive.php, line 124.

Aug 20, 2009 08:28 mycooluk 10 posts	I set both published and created to the same dates in the past – i’ve even just double checked and tried resaving pages, but to no avail. Guess I’ll have to hard-code the links, which isn’t ideal.

Aug 20, 2009 09:56 David 1493 posts	I set both published and created to the same dates in the past … but to no avail. Then something has gone wrong. What you describe works perfectly for me (the 2008 entry was made this way)! :-S