Show all from specific Month with date field type & perch_content_custom

    I have events pages that feature a single event that then need to be displayed on a custom calendar on another page. I need to use perch_content_custom() to display all the posts that occur in a specific month but I cannot get the filtering to work properly. Here is my code for the month of august:

    The ID event_date_start is a standard date fieldtype so the data is in the form of Y-m-d H:i:s My thinking is that 'match'=>'contains' would be able to find the month within the date string but it isn't working. I put dashes before the number (-08-) because only the month has a dash before and after it's number. Maybe I need to use 'match'=>'regex' ? I looked for examples of using 'match'=>'regex' and could never get it to work. Kind of at a loss at this point. Any ideas?

  • drewm

    Approved the thread.

    I'd do exactly what you're currently doing but use regexp instead of contains.


    Contains filters for word boundaries, so your date partial won't match.


    Code
    1. 'filter'=>'event_date_start',
    2. 'match'=>'regexp',
    3. 'value'=> '-08-', //month of august
    Quote from drewm

    I'd do exactly what you're currently doing but use regexp instead of contains.


    Contains filters for word boundaries, so your date partial won't match.


    Code
    1. 'filter'=>'event_date_start',
    2. 'match'=>'regexp',
    3. 'value'=> '-08-', //month of august

    That worked perfectly.

    Just fyi the perch documentation needs to be updated since it says possible values for match are 'regex' and not 'regexp'

    For example: https://docs.grabaperch.com/fu…ent/perch-content-custom/