Reply To: Past Events Page, Display Posts by DatePicker Year

• Elliot

• December 18, 2013 at 10:11 am

Hi @codeview

You can achieve this by adding in some simple logic to sort the posts into another array which is divided by years like so:

<?php 

$years = array();

if( $posts )
{
	foreach( $posts as $post )
	{
		setup_postdata( $post );
		
		// get date
		$date = date_create( get_field('enddate') );
		
		
		// get year
		$year = date_format($date,'Y');
		
		
		// create new year if not already exists
		if( !isset( $years[ $year ]) )
		{
			$years[ $year ] = array(
				'title' => 'Events from ' . $year,
				'posts' => array()
			);
		}
		
		
		// add post to year
		$years[ $year ]['posts'][] = $post;
		
	}
	wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly
}

if( $years )
{
	foreach( $years as $year )
	{
		echo '<h3>' . $year['title'] . '</h3>';
		
		if( $year['posts'] )
		{
			foreach( $year['posts'] as $post )
			{
				setup_postdata( $post );
				
				// get date
				$date = date_create( get_field('enddate') );
		
				echo '<h3><a href="';
				the_permalink();
				echo '">';
				the_title();
				echo '</a></h3>';
	
				
				echo date_format($date,'F d, Y');
			}
		}
	}
	
	wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly
}

 ?>