[wp-hackers] Hijack "The Loop"?

[Otto]

The thing I think you're missing is an understanding of the MySql LIMIT clause.

SELECT * FROM your_table LIMIT 5, 10

That will select 10 entries from "your_table", skipping the first 5 of
them. So you will get entries 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14, and 15,
basically.

This is how Wordpress does the post loops, more or less. Each "page"
has X entries. Page 1 starts with entry 0. Page 2 starts with entry
number X. Page 3 starts with entry 2X. And so on.

So your "profile" page could be the same as your normal query (more or
less), but with a LIMIT of X,1, where X is the number of that person
in the result set (0-indexed). To get the next guy, you run the same
query with X+1.

I cannot tell you specifically how to apply this to your application,
but the gist of it is that Wordpress does not really retain the query
from page to page. It builds the same query that it did before, but
with new variables for the LIMIT clause.



On 4/25/07, Lorin Rivers <lrivers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul is my hero, he got me to this point.
>
> Take a look at my follow-up, though.
>
> On 4/25/07, Paul Menard <codehooligans at codehooligans.com> wrote:
> > No. You really don't want to do that. I can answer this because well
> > I know what you are working on.
> >
> > For example on the custom search result page. If the your secret
> > 'alum_search' parameter is present you are dropping into your custom
> > SQL query which hits you alumni table and searched for matching
> > records. the result of this query is a standard mysql array (see my
> > example below). If you don't have the secret 'alum_search parameter
> > then you default to using the WP Loop to display any Post/Page items.
> > You really can't hijack the loop since your table columns don't
> > really apply to WP functions like the_title(), the_content(), etc.
> >
> > For your custom query you just need to make your own loop and display
> > the row information from your alumni contact table Something like the
> > following. This is straight from the PHP MySQL manual.
> >
> > $query = "SELECT..."; // your custom quuery
> > $result = mysql_query($query);
> > while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
> > {
> >      echo $row['firstname'];
> >      echo $row['lastname'];
> >      echo $row['address'];
> >      echo $row['age'];
> > }
> > mysql_free_result($result);
> >
> > P-
> >
> >
> > On Apr 25, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote:
> >
> > > Here's what I'm doing--I've got a custom table and some page
> > > template-fu to display data that is not "posts". WP is so post-centric
> > > that a lot of stuff doesn't work if the content is not in "the loop".
> > >
> > > Is it possible to make my custom PHP ACT like The Loop? And if so,
> > > how?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
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