num_dayz-v0i6

# Blosxom Plugin: num_dayz
# Author: Stu MacKenzie <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blosxom/messages>
# Version: v0.6 2005-01-14
# License: MIT/Public Domain
# num_dayz home: http://www.enilnomi.net/download.html
# Documentation at the bottom of this file or type: perldoc blox

#
#  Blosxom normally displays the most recent $num_entries 
#  posts (5, 10, 100); num_dayz displays posts from the 
#  most recent $num_days days (3 days, 7 days, 30 days). 
#  The maximum number of posts that will be displayed is 
#  still set by $num_entries. The plugin can detect whether 
#  you're sorting by ascending or descending date.
#
#  num_dayz takes a real slash-and-burn approach when limiting
#  entries to the specified time range: blosxom still composes 
#  $num_entries stories for the page; num_dayz just doesn't 
#  allow the "later" ones to display. This behavior won't win  
#  any efficiency contests, but it lets num_dayz work without 
#  changing blosxom's list of %files, and that (should) mean that 
#  other plugins won't break. To save processor time, load num_dayz 
#  fairly early among plugins that use the story() routine; I can 
#  name it 00num_dayz and everything works fine.
#

package num_dayz;

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#
#  Configuration Section
#
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#
# How many days' posts should be displayed?
 $num_days = 5;
#
# Count days from most-recent entry (0), or from right now (1)?
#   (normal is 0)
 $now_mode = 0;
#
# = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

use vars qw! $num_days $now_mode !;

use strict;

sub start {
  1;
}

my $desc_sort = 0;
my $stage = 0;
my ($num_secs, $t, $origin, $secs, $valid_secs, $story_flag);

sub filter {
  $num_secs = $num_days * 60 * 60 * 24;
  $valid_secs = 0;
  1;
}

sub date {
  my ($pkg, undef, $date_ref, $cur_file_mtime, undef) = @_;
  
  if ($stage == 0) {
    $t = $cur_file_mtime;
    $origin = $now_mode ? time : $t;
    $secs = (($origin % (24*60*60)) + $num_secs);    
    $valid_secs = $origin;
    $stage++;
  } elsif ($stage == 1) {
    $desc_sort = $t > $cur_file_mtime;
    if ($desc_sort) {
      $valid_secs -= $secs;
    } else {
      $now_mode and ($valid_secs -= ($origin - $t));
      $valid_secs += $secs;
    }
    $stage++;
  }
  if ($desc_sort) {($cur_file_mtime < $valid_secs) and $story_flag = 1;}
  else {($cur_file_mtime > $valid_secs) and $story_flag = 1;}
  $story_flag and $$date_ref = '';
  1;
}

sub story {
  my ($pkg, undef, undef, $story_ref, undef) = @_;
  
  $story_flag and $$story_ref = '';
  1;
}

1;

__END__


=head1 NAME

Blosxom Plug-in: num_dayz


=head1 SYNOPSIS

* Entries from the most-recent $num_days are displayed, instead of 
  the normal $num_entries posts. (However, $num_entries still sets 
  the limit on how many posts from the most-recent $num_days days 
  will be displayed.)

* If the blog is sorted by descending date (normal), num_dayz counts 
  backward from the newest entry; if the sort is by ascending date, 
  num_dayz counts forward from the oldest entry.

* num_dayz can be set to start counting days from the most recent 
  entry date, or from the current date.

* No matter what settings are used, at least one entry will always 
  be displayed.


=head1 INSTALLATION

Locate the num_dayz plugin you downloaded; open the file and enter 
the two CONFIGURATION values; save the file with unix line ends. 
Upload or drop the num_dayz file into your blosxom plugins folder. 
Blog on.


=head1 CONFIGURATION

With any luck, the instructions in the "Configuration Section" 
at the top of this file are sufficient; if more information is 
needed, see the documentation at:
  http://www.enilnomi.net/dltext/num_dayz.dl


=head1 USAGE NOTES

num_dayz normally counts days from the newest post: e.g. if today is 
the 20th, and you tell num_dayz to count 5 days, and the most-recent 
entries in the blog are from the 18th and 12th, num_dayz will display 
entries for the 5 days from the 18th to the 13th. (That is, both posts 
mentioned above will display.)

When $now_mode is set to 1, num_dayz counts days from right now: e.g. 
if today is the 20th, and you tell num_dayz to count 5 days from now, 
and the most-recent entries in the blog are from the 18th and 12th, 
num_dayz will display entries for the 5 days from now (the 20th) to 
the 15th. (That is, only one of the posts mentioned above will display.)

If no posts meet the requirements of the $num_days and $now_mode 
settings, the plugin will display at least one entry.


=head1 BUGS

Address bug reports and comments to the Blosxom mailing list:
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/blosxom


=head1 VERSION

2005-01-14 (v0.6)   - move the main action to date() sub
2005-01-12 (v0.55)  - wups, forgot to delete out-of-range date info;
                    - thanx to Julian Herten-Greaven
2004-11-18 (v0.5)   - now_mode, ascending sort
2004-11-16 (v0.4)   - it's alive

=head1 LICENSE

this Blosxom Plug-in
Copyright 2004, Stu MacKenzie

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