Checking how old a document publish date is?

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bennyb Reply #1, 16 years, 10 months ago

Hi,

I’m using ditto to display some articles, and I’m adding a new image that is displayed next to new articles. But I only want this display if the article was added in the last 30day. Any idea what i’d need to do here. I’m guessing phx but not sure exactly how.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Ben

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bunk58 Reply #2, 16 years, 10 months ago

Just add this parameter to your Ditto snippet call :

&filter=`pub_date,@EVAL return time() - (30 * 24 * 60 * 60);,3`

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mrhaw Reply #3, 16 years, 10 months ago

Cool stuff!

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=418002&seqNum=7

So if you wanted to list everything you would use two Ditto calls:

[[Ditto?id="one" &filter=`pub_date,@EVAL return time() - (30 * 24 * 60 * 60);,3` &tpl=`one`]]

<strong>Older articles...</strong>
[[Ditto?id="two" &filter=`pub_date,@EVAL return time() - (30 * 24 * 60 * 60);,4` &tpl=`two`]]

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bennyb Reply #4, 16 years, 10 months ago

Thanks you both. But my calls now don’t return any documents.

The call I originally had and worked was:

[!Ditto? parents=`4` &tpl=`feature.Tpl` &sortDir=`DESC` &sortBy=`pub_date` &dateSource=`pub_date` &dateFormat=`%b %G` &display=`all`!]

i now have this, which return "no documents found"

[!Ditto?id="one" &filter=`pub_date,@EVAL return time() - (30 * 24 * 60 * 60);,3` parents=`4` &tpl=`feature.Tpl` &sortDir=`DESC` &sortBy=`pub_date` &dateSource=`pub_date` &dateFormat=`%b %G` &display=`all`!]
[!Ditto?id="two" &filter=`pub_date,@EVAL return time() - (30 * 24 * 60 * 60);,4` parents=`4` &tpl=`featureOld.Tpl` &sortDir=`DESC` &sortBy=`pub_date` &dateSource=`pub_date` &dateFormat=`%b %G` &display=`all`!]

I’ve tried stripping the call down to the bare min and still no joy.

Also is the id="one" & id="two" required if you have multiple calls on one page?

Thanks again for you help

Ben

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mrhaw Reply #5, 16 years, 10 months ago

Yes, you need to set an id for each call and
use &parents=`4` instead of parents=`4`
The only time you can skip the "&" is when it comes right after "?" wink

When using id - you will need to set it in pagination placeholders ([+two_next+]..)
and if using request extender (page.html?ditto_two_sortBy=...)

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bennyb Reply #6, 16 years, 9 months ago

Quote from: mrhaw at Dec 14, 2009, 11:18 PM

Yes, you need to set an id for each call and
use &parents=`4` instead of parents=`4`
The only time you can skip the "&" is when it comes right after "?"

When using id - you will need to set it in pagination placeholders ([+two_next+]..)
and if using request extender (page.html?ditto_two_sortBy=...)

Just checking the forums again after a long xmas breaking and seen your reply. Doh completely missed the missing &, I’ll give this ago. Thanks for the help

Ben