Month divider between events

• garethyo

• September 28, 2021 at 6:46 am

Hi
I’d like to insert a divider that separates out my CPT ‘programme’ with a divider declaring the month. I’ve seen a few techniques to do this but need a way to format like so…

<?php 
$posts = get_posts(array(
  'post_type' => 'programme',
  'meta_key'  => 'event_start',
  'orderby'   => 'meta_value_num',
  'order'     => 'ASC',
));
if( $posts ): ?>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ): 
	  setup_postdata( $post )
	  ?>

so that I can do all the usual stuff between… i.e.

<div class="event">
		
			<?php
			$start_date = get_field('event_start');
			$end_date = get_field('event_end');
			echo $start_date;
			if ($end_date != $start_date) {
			  echo ' — ',$end_date;
			}
			?>
			
</div>

Many of the examples I’ve seen require me to echo out every field inside the query which is not ideal in this instance.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated

• John Huebner

• October 22, 2021 at 5:26 pm

$last_month = '';
foreach ($posts as $post) {
  setup_postdata($post);
  $start_date = get_field('event_start');
  $month = date('F', strtotime($start_date));
  if ($month != $last_month) {
    echo '<h2>'.$month.'</h2>';
  }
  $last_month = $month;
}