pdoTools - pdoPage/pdoResources publishedon/createdon dates not displaying with formatting

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firebot6 Reply #1, 7 years, 1 month ago

I've recently started switching my site over to pdoTools. It's gone well so far, but I've run into an issue replacing getPage/getResources on my blog setup.

Using getPage, I had the following line in my tpl file, which displays the createdon date as "X days X weeks X months ago" and hovering over that text shows the publishedon date in a jQuery tooltip.

<span class="tip date-tip" data-tip="[[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%b %d, %Y - %I:%M %P`]]">[[+createdon:ago]]</span>

Switching over to pdoPage, my snippet call looks like this:

[[!pdoPage? &parents=`6` &limit=`5` &sortby=`publishedon` &sortdir=`DESC` &tpl=`blogPostSummary`]]

The blogPostSummary chunk looks like this:

<div class="post-summary-box gray-box">
    <h3><a href="[[~[[+id]]]]">[[+longtitle:is=``:then=`[[+pagetitle]]`:else=`[[+longtitle]]`]]</a></h3><a class="comments-link" data-disqus-identifier="page-[[+id]]" href="[[~[[+id]]? &scheme=`full`]]/#disqus_thread">Comments</a>
    <p class="post-info">Posted <span class="tip date-tip" data-tip="[[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%b %d, %Y - %I:%M %P`]]">[[+createdon:ago]]</span> in [[!TaggerGetTags? &resources=`[[+id]]` &rowTpl=`taggerRowTpl` &separator=`, ` &target=`14`]].</p>
    <div class="entry">
        <p>[[+introtext]]</p>
        <a class="read-more-link" href="[[~[[+id]]]]">Continue Reading</a>
    </div>
</div>

If I use only [[+publishedon]] or [[+createdon]], it displays the date in unix timestamp as expected, however with any sort of output formatting the publishedon tag shows nothing and the createdon tag shows "47 years, 2 months ago". Searching around Google and the forums hasn't produced any issues like mine that I've found.

I appreciate any help!

This question has been answered by Bruno17. See the first response.

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 7 years, 1 month ago

since this values are stored as unix-timestamp in the db, and pdoTools doesn't convert them to strings, you don't need the strtotime - outputfilter

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firebot6 Reply #3, 7 years, 1 month ago

Thank you!

Is there anything I can change with [[+createdon:ago]] for it to display the correct "time since posted"? I actually don't remember where I found the :ago modifier, I couldn't find any information on it again.

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LK Reply #4, 7 years, 1 month ago

Try this

https://docs.modx.com/revolution/2.x/making-sites-with-modx/commonly-used-template-tags/date-formats

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Bruno17 Reply #5, 7 years, 1 month ago

try

[[+createdon:date=`%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S`:ago]]

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