Quick Newbie Questions

Hi Ben,

Tricky this one. They are not (I think) totally supported. Whilst they can work it all depends on how you have programmed it and how you need it to work. I have a plugin at the bottom of my post here that I made which does do what you are talking about, well what I mean by that is that my status plugin is used as a parameter inside a weblog tag but not all ways will always work.

Can sometimes be a bit hit and miss depending on what you are doing.

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark

That does help. It’s a tricky situation. I’m writing a site for an academic institution, and they’ve got to display posts according to school year. So I wrote the plugin to figure out what the proper years are for current posts based on whether or not the current date was before Sept. 1. It works in that it outputs “2007”, but doesn’t work in the parameters (year=”{exp:schoolyear:begin}”). I guess this is just one of those times.

Hi Ben,

Don’t give up just yet 😉

If you download my Retrieve Statuses plugin and open it up you can possibly see if I am doing anything different to the way you are at the moment. That may give you a hand in getting yours to work?

Hope that helps?

Best wishes,

Mark

Wow. Thank you.

I can’t believe I missed that. You guys are amazing.

I knew there’d be something I would miss to tell you! 😉

My plugin requires that exact parameter and I meant to say so sorry about that!

Good catch Victor 😉

Hope you can get your plugin working now Ben?

Best wishes,

Mark

Yep, working perfectly now. On to the next quandary… 😉

Excellent 😉

You will learn to love your quandaries!! 😉

Best wishes,

Mark

Yep that’s always a nice thing to do 😉

In this instance though it may be a little specific to your site but always nice to see other plugins to learn from.

Best wishes,

Mark