List by month

Actually, by some miracle, I managed to get this working from a sort of related example here. I thought this would be more difficult and using arrays. I don't know how it holds up if I was to put a 2 year schedule or something (probably won't ever happen). Look ok? If this is an old way and you would use arrays or some other CMSB function I don't know about, feel free to show me a more powerful way. Thanks.

<?php $monthCheck = ""; ?>
<?php foreach ($dancer_scheduleRecords as $record):
$showMonth = false;
$theMonth = date("F", strtotime($record['show_date']));
if ($theMonth != $monthCheck) :
$monthCheck = $theMonth;
$showMonth = true;
endif;
?>
	<?php if ($showMonth): ?>
		<strong><?php echo $theMonth; ?></strong><br />
	<?php endif ?>
	<strong><?php echo date("D, M jS", strtotime($record['show_date'])) ?>: </strong>
	<?php echo join(', ', $record['dancers:labels']); ?><br>
<?php endforeach ?>

Hi Rez,

Do a google search for MySQL group records by month and look into the Group By function

You may find some interesting ideas

Jerry Kornbluth

Oh, thanks. I'll look into it.

Hey rez,

This method looks fine! Though as you note, it would have issues if you were to enter dates across multiple years. When generating $theMonth you could probably just use "F Y" instead of "F" to account for the year if that's ever necessary.

I'd also recommend adding an "orderBy" option to your getRecords() to sort by show_date - something like this:

list($dancer_scheduleRecords, $dancer_scheduleMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'dancer_schedule',
'loadUploads' => true,
'allowSearch' => false,
'where' => " show_date >= CURDATE() ",
'orderBy' => "show_date ASC",
));

If you create the records in chronological order the default sorting will usually work, but it's not guaranteed, and this grouping method won't work correctly if any records are out of date order.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks,