How to include custom "blog archive"

[calamaro]

Hi,
I've created my first theme under Bludit 3.1.0 and I'm struggling a bit with including a custom php file.

The issue:

I have a one-page template which has an own section showing the latest three blog posts.

Section code:

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<!-- List Blog entries -->
	<?php foreach ($content as $page): ?>
		<a href="<?php echo $page->permalink(); ?>" class="col-lg-4 news-box">
			<?php if ($page->coverImage()): ?>
				<div class="image">
					<img src="<?php echo $page->coverImage(); ?>" alt="">
				</div>
			<?php endif ?>
			<?php if (!$page->isStatic() && !$url->notFound()): ?>
				<!-- Creator information -->
				<span class="news-info"><?php echo $page->user('nickname'); ?>, <?php echo $page->date(); ?></span>
			<?php endif ?>
				<!-- Title -->
				<h2 class="title"><?php echo $page->title(); ?></h2>
		</a>
	<?php endforeach ?>

When clicking on the title, you are led to the full article. This is working fine.

Below the three latest posts I would like to add a "Show more" button, which is linked to a separate "archive.php" file that is listing all blog posts.

But how can I assign an own permalink to the archive.php and how can it be included by the "page.php" when clicking on the "Read more" button as shown on the main page?

[Jay]

If I understood what you want to achieve, you'd need to fulfill couple things trying to list last couple posts on index page, and whole archive under let's suppose /archive URL
The snippet you provided lists all posts not only last three of them, and I assume you know that.

Basically in most templates index.php contains conditions including certain template files.
In first step I'd create a static page /archive that is going to list all blog posts on your site.
In index.php I'd make a condition checking whether you are on the home page or visiting the /archive page, and load proper php file
For example

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if ($WHERE_AM_I == 'page' && $page->slug() == 'archive' && $page->isStatic() ) {
			include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'archive.php');
elseif ($WHERE_AM_I == 'page') {
			include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'page.php');
}
else {
	include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'home.php');
}

This should cover listing blog posts and show their content.
You can place somewhere in your template manually a link to /archive

If you come up with other solution, plz share it with community.

[calamaro]

Hi, thank you very much for the hints. It helped to include the "archive.php" in a way I wanted.

I'm now listing all blog entries on the page "archive.php" using the following code from https://docs.bludit.com/en/dev-snippets/content-pages:

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<!-- List blog entries -->
      <?php
          // Page number, the first page is 1
          $pageNumber = 1;

          // Number of items to return
          $numberOfItems = 100;

          // Only get the pages with the status published
          $onlyPublished = true;

          // Get the list of keys of pages
          $items = $pages->getList($pageNumber, $numberOfItems, $onlyPublished);

          foreach ($items as $key): ?>

          <?php $page = buildPage($key); ?>

          <div class="col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 bottom_90 news-box list">
            <?php if ($page->coverImage()): ?>
              <div class="image">
                <img src="<?php echo $page->coverImage(); ?>" alt="">
              </div>
            <?php endif; ?>
              <span class="news-info"><?php echo $page->user('nickname'); ?>, <?php echo $page->date(); ?></span>
              <h2 class="title"><?php echo $page->title(); ?></h2>
              <p><?php echo $page->contentBreak(); ?> </p>
              <!-- Read more Button -->
              <?php if ($page->readMore()): ?>
                <a href="<?php echo $page->permalink(); ?>" class="site-btn float-left top_30"><?php echo $L->get('Read more'); ?></a>
              <?php endif; ?>
          </div>
        <?php endforeach; ?>

However, the pagination is not working now. I assume it's because the $pageNumber variable is set with "1"?

Any hints how can I list all blog entries with a working pagination?

When I use the following standard snippet it just says "Page not found".

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<?php
    foreach ($content as $page) {
        echo $page->title();
        echo $page->content();
    }
?>

[Edi]

I thought the page or template archive.php should show all posts. Therefore I do not understand why it should work with the paginator.

home.php shows "all" posts with paginator. What should be the difference between home.php and archive.php?