Publish date

Hi,
I have a very simple question, but a search has not helped solve it.

Basically I want to know how I can call the published date of a document. I have tries [+date+] but that calls the actual date.

The reason I am asking is that I have a back dated blog entry 5/6/09 that I now want to make live, but I want the date to show it as being published to the user on 5/6/09

Then you don’t want the pub_date, which will be the date you actually publish the document. You want the create_date.

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 28, 2009, 11:39 AM

Then you don’t want the pub_date, which will be the date you actually publish the document. You want the create_date.

no, the document was created today, but i want to make it look as though it was created on 5th June.

Basically its for a test blog about my motorcycle trip around Europe. I wrote the blog while travelling but didn’t put the stories into modx

You could just create a date template variable and show that. You could put whatever you want in it. I think you could set the default value to the published or created date but I’ve never tried it.

To change the source for the [+date+] placeholder you need to use the &dateSource parameter in the call. To use pub_date set it like &dateSource=`pub_date`.

Note that Ditto will use another date source if there is no pub_date for the document (not sure the hierarchy, but I think it goes to publishedon). If you want to limit it to only using pub_date, then use the [+pub_date+] placeholder and format it either with PHx [+pub_date:date=`%d.%m.%Y`+] or using the dateTime (or other) snippet.

PHx is available to use within Ditto TPLs natively, no need to install PHx to use it in Ditto.

Quote from: dev_cw at Jun 29, 2009, 05:34 AM

To change the source for the [+date+] placeholder you need to use the &dateSource parameter in the call. To use pub_date set it like &dateSource=`pub_date`.

Note that Ditto will use another date source if there is no pub_date for the document (not sure the hierarchy, but I think it goes to publishedon). If you want to limit it to only using pub_date, then use the [+pub_date+] placeholder and format it either with PHx [+pub_date:date=`%d.%m.%Y`+] or using the dateTime (or other) snippet.

PHx is available to use within Ditto TPLs natively, no need to install PHx to use it in Ditto.

&dateSource=`pub_date` was exactly what I wanted. Many thanks