parse_query() orderby date ignoring year

  • Resolved ventatto

    (@ventatto)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I would like to do the following except I want to ignore the year. In other words, I want to order by month and then by day since it will eventually result in displaying a list to wish a happy birthday to people during a certain period.

    
$args = array(
	'post_type' => array( 'player'),
	'numberposts' => -1,
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'orderby' => 'date',
	'order' => 'ASC',
);

    I saw some possibilities with meta queries but I have no idea what to set as a meta_key and how to deal with that. I was also wondering if there was no easier possibility than using meta queries.

    If I was not clear enough, here is the order I would like :
    – Bob, 22/11/1960
    – John, 30/11/1957
    – Tim, 01/12/1959

    while my current code gives :
    – John, 30/11/1957
    – Tim, 01/12/1959
    – Bob, 22/11/1960

    Thanks for your help !

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  • Thread Starter ventatto

    (@ventatto)

    I tried again several times differently but still the same issue…

    I eventually looked for another way to address the problem and found a reordering after doing get_posts($posts). Here it is :

    function cmp_birthday($a, $b)
{
    $month1 = date('m', strtotime($a->post_date));
    $month2 = date('m', strtotime($b->post_date));
    $cmp = strcasecmp($month1, $month2);
    if ($cmp == 0)
    {
        $day1 = date('d', strtotime($a->post_date));
        $day2 = date('d', strtotime($b->post_date));
        return strcasecmp($day1, $day2);
    }
    else
        return $cmp;
}
usort($posts, "cmp_birthday");

    I really want to thank you for the time you spent trying to find a solution for me.

    Best regards.

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