Adding "new" icon beside recent documents

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Hi folks,

I’d like to add a "new" icon beside each documents that are published before x days. I don’t know how to do, maybe with PHx, but I’m not enough experimented with it.
Any idea anyone?

Thanks!

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fruitwerks Reply #2, 19 years, 1 month ago

I can’t help you with the code, but your idea is a good one. You would need a chunk or snippet that would basically take the;

current timestamp - publish date = x
’new’ doc period = y
if x < y show new icon
else show spacer / nothing

fairly simple actually.. just need a common denominator for the timestamps and a ’new’ graphic, and someone to help you code.. got the logic out of the way for ya

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ganeshXL Reply #3, 19 years, 1 month ago

this thread might help: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,16273.0/topicseen.html
using Ditto-filters
http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/snippet-ditto-php.html#filter

For the new items, you could e.g. just use a special CSS class with a background-image

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #4, 19 years, 1 month ago

<?php
$y = strototime('+'.$number_of_days.'days',$date);
if (time() < y$) {
return $modx->getChunk($icon);
} else {
return  '';
}
?>

Note: code not tested. Parameters include &number_of_days which must be greater than 1, &date which should be [+createdon+] (or whatever field you are using to hold the timestamp), and &icon which should be the chunk containing all of the html for your new icon.

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Aur Reply #5, 19 years, 1 month ago

Ho great ! Thanks for your help. I’m rather noob to Modx and I can’t figure how to deal with this code.
I guess I’ve to create a snippet and a chuck called ’icon’ but what else ?
regards,
Auré

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #6, 19 years, 1 month ago

Exactly that. Then just call the snippet in your Ditto template (alternate between cached and uncached calls) passing along &date=`[+createdon+]`.