TV: Date and time in alias?

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morozko Reply #1, 19 years, 2 months ago

When using Ditto 2 to generate news I would like to set pub_date in document alias, so that document alias is

   [color=red]yyyy.month.day-time[/color]

for all news articles. How to do that? Is there a good way to set document alias to

   [color=red]yyyy.month.day.time-sometext[/color]

for selected article where sometext is some specific text (initial value of document alias, for example)?

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pixelchutes Reply #2, 19 years, 2 months ago

Check for the "CustomAlias" plugin (v0.96) in the repository. It can do exactly what you need.

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morozko Reply #3, 19 years, 2 months ago

Exactly, thank You!

But there’s a problem with dates. This code in CustomAlias

// Get the relevant dates
$published = $_POST['pub_date'];
$created = $_POST['createdon'];
$edited = time();

// Set which date value to use
if ($published != '') {
	$date = $published;
} elseif ($created != '') {
	$date = $created;
} else {
	$date = $edited;
}

returns incorrect dates in $_POST[’pub_date’] and $_POST[’createdon’]. With

$published = '';
$created = '';

It works perfectly. I just need to get pub_date in alias. Any solution?