NewsListing display Publish date in stead of Creation Date

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briggsys Reply #11, 18 years, 5 months ago

I’m trying to get the date to show up in the archived items as well and have tracked it down to the following section. However when I insert [+date+] nothing happens. However if I add text after [’pagetitle’] it is shown.

What am I doing wrong?

if($limit>$nrposts && $showarch === true) { 
   $output .= "<h3>$archtxt</h3>";
   $output .= "<ul class=\"archivelist\">";
   for ($x = $nrposts; $x < $limit; $x++) { 
      $output .= "<li><a href='[~".$resource[$x]['id']."~]'>".$resource[$x]['pagetitle']."</a></li>";
   } 
   $output .= "</ul>";
}

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sottwell Reply #12, 18 years, 5 months ago

The [+date+] placeholder is part of the output template, and the archive list is displayed after the template. I would suggest adding the strftime($date, $resource[$x][’createdon’] to the output line in the code you quoted below, like this:

      $output .= "<li><a href='[~".$resource[$x]['id']."~]'>".$resource[$x]['pagetitle']."</a>".strftime($date, $resource[$x]['createdon']."</li>";

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briggsys Reply #13, 18 years, 5 months ago

If I try that it displays the following after the link:

.strftime(%d-%b-%y, %H:%M, Array[’createdon’].

I tried doing things like that earlier (trail and error) but got similar errors. I guess I’m doing soemthing wrong and I don’t really understand PHP yet.

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sottwell Reply #14, 18 years, 5 months ago

That always gets my blood pressure up! It’s because the code has to be outside of the string. In the line of code I quoted below,

      
$output .= "<li><a href='[~".$resource[$x]['id']."~]'>" .$resource[$x]['pagetitle']. "</a>" .strftime($date, $resource[$x]['createdon']. "</li>";

notice the placement of the " and the .

I’m sure you’ve learned that PHP uses the . for the concat operator (adding a string to another string) instead of + like just about everything else. That took me a long time to get used to.

So basically what you are doing is taking a string (in quotes) then generating another string with PHP code (not in the quotes), and combining the two strings. I rarely get it right the first (or first two or three!) time; I’m sort of a trial-and-error hacker. A good color-coded text editor helps a lot!

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briggsys Reply #15, 18 years, 5 months ago

Thanks Susan, but still having problems.

" .strftime($date, $resource[$x]['createdon']. "

I don’t think the problem was in the placement of the . and " since the rest of the code shows no spacing as per your original post. However it is that piece of code, if I remove it, everythin returns to normal with no date or error

Seems I must have done something a little different before, cos now I get the following error no matter which of the two ways I do it, and I can’t get the previous error anymore.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ’;’ in /home/site/public_html/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(667) : eval()’d code on line 313

Removing the ; only tells me something else is wrong till I have totally destroyed the code

Maybe Mark or Ryan can shed light on how to make the archived items show a date on the line next to the title?

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