formatting date not working

I’m trying to figure out how to format the date that the entry was created and can’t seem to figure out how.

This is my Ditto call;


In my template I use the placeholder [+createdon+]

I want to display the date as 12/29/06 for instance (which I assume is %D from the PHP time site)

What is wrong with my call?

Here is the site; http://www.fegul.com/modx/index.php?id=7

Hi,

I guess when dateFormat is enabled, you have to use the [+date+] placeholder to display the value.

:-)

wow, so simple! I was beating my brains out for hours over that.

Why is there a createdon placeholder then if you can’t format its value?

So you can put it wherever you want it.

Quote from: sottwell at Dec 31, 2006, 09:26 AM

So you can put it wherever you want it.

I guess I’m a little confused then.

Why wasn’t I able to use the createdon placeholder and format it with the parameter in the call? I’m not sure how useful a placeholder that only displays the date in seconds since Jan. 1970 would be.

Now I’m confused

The createdon placeholder is there for those that want to pass that value to a snippet for further processing. Also, the next release of Ditto will not have a date placeholder in favor of having phx style formatting.