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Answered How to display a chunk based on date

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    BobbyG66 Reply #1, 9 years, 6 months ago
    I have a registration button setup in a chunk. (regButton)
    I have it displayed on the page, but want to hide it once the event date passes.
    Does anyone have an idea on how to do this?

    Here is what I have tried with no luck.

    [[*eventDate:gt=`[[!dateToday]]`:then=`[[$regButton]]`:else=``]]


    Using the If add on. Not sure if operands support TV's.
    [[!If?
   &subject=`[[+dateToday]]`
   &operator=`<`
   &operand=`[[*eventDate]]`
   &then=`[[$regButton]]`
   &else=``
]]


    Thanks
    BG66

    This question has been answered by BobRay. See the first response.

    • chrischerrett Reply #2, 9 years, 6 months ago
      Do it in a snippet. There you can interrogate the current date, then return the chunk if the $eventDate has not passed, otherwise return nothing.

      <?php
if(time() < $eventDate){
    return $modx->getChunk('regButton');
}
return "";
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        BobRay Reply #3, 9 years, 6 months ago
        Note that this will only work if $eventDate is a unix timestamp (if it's just a number when you display it, it should be fine). If it's a human-readable date/time (which MODX returns by default for all date fields), you'd have to convert it:

        if(time() < strtotime($eventDate)){
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          BobbyG66 Reply #4, 9 years, 6 months ago
          Quote from: chrischerrett at Oct 22, 2014, 01:39 PM
          Do it in a snippet. There you can interrogate the current date, then return the chunk if the $eventDate has not passed, otherwise return nothing.

          <!--?php
if(time() < $eventDate){
    return $modx--->getChunk('regButton');
}
return "";

          Thanks, this is almost working.
          I can only get the button to post when I reverse the less than "<" symbol to greater than ">".
          I also played around with different php and unix date code formats with no luck.

          My snippet call on the page is 
          [[registrationButton]]


          My eventDate output options are 
          %A, %B %d, %Y


          Thanks
          BG66
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            BobRay Reply #5, 9 years, 6 months ago
            Did you try my suggestion above for line 3?

            Are you sure $eventDate is set to some value in the snippet? Typically, you'd have to do something like this:

            [[registrationButton? &eventDate=`[[*eventDate]] ]]



            Then in the snippet:

            $eventDate = $modx->getOption('eventDate', $scriptProperties);
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              exside Reply #6, 9 years, 6 months ago
              what about caching issues, seems you're calling the snippet cached? How would it then re-evaluate the current date?
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                BobbyG66 Reply #7, 9 years, 6 months ago
                Thanks for everyone's help! It's working now!
                Here are the details.

                Template Variable:
                eventDate
                Output options 
                %A, %B %e, %Y


                Chunk:
                regButton
                <a href="[[~27]]"><div class="button round">Register today!</div></a>


                Snippet:
                registrationButton
                <?php
$eventDate = $modx->getOption('eventDate', $scriptProperties);
if(time() < strtotime($eventDate)){
    return $modx->getChunk('regButton');
}
return "";


                Snippet call on page:
                [[!registrationButton? &eventDate=`[[*eventDate]]` ]]


                Thanks
                BG66
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                  BobRay Reply #8, 9 years, 6 months ago
                  I'm glad you got it sorted. Thanks for reporting back. smiley
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                    BobbyG66 Reply #9, 9 years, 6 months ago
                    Quote from: BobRay at Oct 23, 2014, 07:48 PM
                    I'm glad you got it sorted. Thanks for reporting back. smiley

                    Me too!
                    Thanks for the great support on a great product.
                    Thanks to BobRay, exside, and chrischerrett!!!