Hey Tom,
I really wanna be able to understand that regex - any hints? Looks
interesting!
Thanks,
L
On Apr 22, 4:12 pm, Tom Worster <f...@thefsb.org> wrote:
> On 4/22/09 10:18 AM, "ldexterldesign" <m...@ldexterldesign.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Hey guys,
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> > I have 10 separate posts displayed on a page. I want to hide 7 (of the
> > oldest) of them and display a link; 'show more posts' - kinda a
> > pagination thing I guess.
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> > My PHP pumps out 10 posts, and I'd like to do the hide/show with JS.
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> > I'm aware I could simply add and remove a height class, hiding/
> > revealing the posts, but I'd like to make it a bit more complex and
> > have accurate control over how many posts are shown if my client turns
> > around and says he wants 5 posts displayed prior to the button being
> > clicked.
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> > Just thinking about how I might go about this in code I'm thinking of
> > doing it the following way. I'm not an excellent programmer, so the
> > time you'd, potentially, save me getting it clear in pseudo will most
> > likely save me a lot of time this evening. Hell, there might even be a
> > plug-in or simpler solution than below you can think of:
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> > - I get a unique 'post-x' ID for each of the posts, where 'x' is the
> > post ID, so I was thinking about just hiding the lowest 7 numeric post
> > IDs displayed on the page?
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> > Thoughts?
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> say your posts all had class="foopost", could you do something like:
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> $('.foopost').each(function() {
> if ( $(this).attr('id').match(/(\d+)$/)[1] > x ) {
> ...
> }
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> });
