Ditto - hyperlink using document-alias?

Hi
I’m using ditto for the "news" page

The item shows up correctly but the PAGE URL does not.
i.e Show as "mynewspage here" then it links to http://www.mydomain.com/modx/news/38.html

Where 38.html; the number 38 is the document id #.

Is there a way I could make it use the document alias instead of the document id #?

If you have FURL enabled and use something like this in your Ditto template :

It will produce a link converted to your alias, assuming you have an alias filled in, if you don’t you usually get the doc id .html!

thanks

how would I make the data format
13-Oct-08 16:33

without the time?

Just Google "php timestamp" ... there are so many ways you can vary the output of the date.  Here’s one I just used on one of my sites which outputs: "Posted September 30, 2008" ... the code is below:

Quote from: flinx at Oct 12, 2008, 11:23 PM

how would I make the data format
13-Oct-08 16:33

without the time?

Just Google "php timestamp" ... there are so many ways you can vary the output of the date. Here’s one I just used on one of my sites which outputs: "Posted September 30, 2008" ... the code is below:

Posted [+createdon:date=`%B %d, %Y`+]

I guess for this to work you need to install PHx.

But Ditto has its own date formatting parameters you can use without extra addon, just use &dateFormat=`%B %d, %Y` in your ditto call. It will format the output of [+date+] in your ditto template.

Hope this helps.

I guess for this to work you need to install PHx.

note: PHx is installed to use within a Ditto tpl
Note: to use php to format the time (as in with Ditto or PHx) you need to start with a timestamp.

both methods work fine, thanks guys

Quote from: dev_cw at Oct 13, 2008, 05:18 AM

I guess for this to work you need to install PHx.

note: PHx is installed to use within a Ditto tpl
Note: to use php to format the time (as in with Ditto or PHx) you need to start with a timestamp.

thanks for the info Shane , I guess I need to check under the hood with latest ditto... u know hidden treasures. lol

Quote from: zi at Oct 13, 2008, 06:05 AM

Quote from: dev_cw at Oct 13, 2008, 05:18 AM

I guess for this to work you need to install PHx.

note: PHx is installed to use within a Ditto tpl
Note: to use php to format the time (as in with Ditto or PHx) you need to start with a timestamp.

thanks for the info Shane , I guess I need to check under the hood with latest ditto... u know hidden treasures. lol

modx has lots of hidden treasures