How do i make [+rss_date+] use publish date?

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antirem Reply #1, 17 years, 11 months ago

Right now everything works on my site except the rss. I want to publish everything in advanced so it automaticaly updates the homepage and rss when the page self publishes.. it all works except i cannot get the publish date to show up in the rss correctly...

I use ditto to create the rss and this is the template ditto uses

<item>  
<title>[+answer+]</title>
  <link>[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</link>
  <description>[+introtext+]</description> 
 <pubDate>[+rss_date+]</pubDate> 
 <guid isPermaLink="false">[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</guid>  
<dc:creator>[(site_name)]</dc:creator>
  [+tagLinks+] </item>

Problem is that [+rss_date+] outputs the date the page was created and if i throw in [+pub_date+] it wont format the date correctly for rss.. and it says the year was 1992 in some random month... etc..

So.. how do I input the publish date in the rss format and letting it be automatic..?

(the site is centered around the use of rss.. so your help is very appreciated! http://arezombiesattacking.com/feed.rss)

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MODx Templates <-- new project im working on

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Vait Reply #2, 17 years, 11 months ago

great question, something ive been meaning to tackle for a while now.
I think that you have to edit rss.format.inc.php located in the formats folder of ditto

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dev_cw Reply #3, 17 years, 11 months ago

You can add &dateSource=`pub_date` to your ditto call as you would if it was not a RSS format, Ditto will do the rest.
From the code:

$GLOBALS["dateSource"] = isset($dateSource) ? $dateSource : "createdon";
	// date type to display (values can be createdon, pub_date, editedon)
	
// set tpl rss placeholders
$placeholders['rss_date'] = array($GLOBALS["dateSource"],"rss_date");

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Vait Reply #4, 17 years, 11 months ago

brilliant

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antirem Reply #5, 17 years, 11 months ago

Thanks for the help! I cant express how grateful I am for this! I sort of jumped the gun on letting this thing out and getting a lot of hits and couldnt have it set wrong.....

THANKS!!!

Minneapolis Web Design <-- where i work
MODx Templates <-- new project im working on