help with this code

here it is on pastbin
https://paste.uni.cc/17953

This gets 3 posts from one category and 3 posts from another… Get all 6 posts from the same category first:
$posts = get_posts( "category=2&numberposts=6" );

You only need one “foreach()” loop, but instead of doing
foreach( $posts as $post )
make it:

foreach( $posts as $num => $post ):
    if ( $num == 0 ) // this is the first post
    else // these are the rest

thx for the reply

this is what you meant right?
https://paste.uni.cc/17955

ill test it when i get home

alright testing the code out and got some problems
the_content doesnt show anything, just a </p> with no <p>

next the “url” or second category only shows the latest post in pright and none of the others
pright works fine for the first category chat

heres my index.php
https://paste.uni.cc/17957

Raptrex, get_posts() returns an array of objects. You can either use setup_postdata($post); just after foreach(), or apply individual filters like this:
echo apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title);
etc.

thx azaozz
it worked until i started adding more stuff and posts

now my categories are not in order in the <h2> part such as here
<h2><?php the_category(', '); ?> &raquo;</h2>

its suppost to show categories 1,4,3 in that order
but it shows 3,1,4
the posts show up fine in its correct categories
just this h2 part is out of order

my latest code
https://paste.uni.cc/17998

all of my posts are in a single category, none are in both 3 and 4 or anything like that

lol just made another category “6”
so i replaced 1 with 6

now it shows 6,6,4
when its suppose to be 6,4,3

oh and im doing this on my computer, not on a server

The current code runs loop whitin a loop whitin a loop… You’re missing the endforeach;. Put one of them just before each endif;, like this:
endforeach;endif;

Or if you prefer, use the other syntax with the curly brackets – see the examples here.

if i add endforeach; before each endif, i get this error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENDFOREACH in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\mag\index.php on line 35

with line 35 and each other line with causing this error being
<?php endforeach;endif; ?>

then i tried using the curly brackets

<?php foreach( $posts as $num => $post ) {
	setup_postdata($post);
    if ( $num == 0 ) {// this is the first post ?>

taking out the colon “:”
i got an error with line 34
endforeach;
that i had previously so i deleted that
and this just messed everything up…

Yea, it’s my error. The pastebin doesn’t highlight the code properly and I didn’t notice it.

It looks ok, perhaps you have some posts in more than one cat or in a sub-cat, they will be listed twice.

nope, all of my posts are in a single category

lol anyone else that can help? so far only azaozz, whom i appreciate for replying, has helped