Articles filtered by year menu items

[aefferen]

Hi,

I have this website with all Lego technic sets listed; http://www.rabbitdesign.nl/index.php/20 ... 2-09-30-07. Fun to browse.
Next to that the same list by year: http://www.rabbitdesign.nl/index.php/20 ... ts-by-year.
I am at the latest Joomla 3.9.28.
What I want to create is a menu structure:
1970
------1977
------1978
1980
------1981
------1982
etc..
Each time when you select a year-menu item only the articles with creation date of that year will be shown.
I can't get this to work. I would expect this can be done with vanilla joomla, seems to me basic functionality.

I created modules with dynamic set and date ranges but didn't show anything and what ever menu-item-type I select a date range filter is not available.
In this context archiving is not applicable, however if someone knows how to 'misuse' it I am all ears.

After browsing this forum for this topic without result I decided to post my question.
Thanks for any hints, upfront

[embedNZ]

I would suggest just creating your menu items for your years manually. link all items to the same page and just apply a filter on your main items array before out putting the data.

like mysite.com/year?y=1970, mysite.com/year?y=1977.

just loop through before outputting and unset anything you don't need. ie:

Code: Select all

<?php foreach ($this->items as $i => $article) : ?>
	<?php if ($article->date > $_GET['y']) : ?>
	
	//either use 
	continue;
	
	//or unset and loop through output again.
	unset($this->items[$i]);
	<?php endif;?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Ideally this should allow you to only display the years you want?