Ditto Revolution date incorrect

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enumaelis Reply #11, 14 years ago

Thank you very much Splittingred.
These 2 chunks work perfectly. Maybe we should ditto "conversion" to Revo to use it.

Gian Paolo

Btw: how do I put automatically in different pages news from different sources?

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enumaelis Reply #12, 14 years ago

Quote from: pcmodem at Apr 12, 2010, 05:42 PM

What did you name your chunk?

the chunk used as template in ditto is my_news so as in the code

[[ditto? &tpl=`my_news` &parents=`25`]]

Gian Paolo

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tomhollis Reply #13, 13 years, 6 months ago

This is definitely a Ditto problem, related to the fact that MODx no longer returns these fields in UNIX timestamp format; these are returned in the standard MySQL datetime format and can be easily formatted with the strtotime and date output filters, i.e.
[[+publishedon:strtotime:&display=`20` &total=`20`date=`%b %e, %Y`]]

Thanks for this, but I am not sure how I get this working as a parameter for Ditto, my date is a TV and so I believe I need to pass it through ditto’s dateSource parameter to get it to my template chunk:

[[Ditto? &parents=`40` &tpl=`event_blog` &orderBy=`[[unixtime? &timeStr=`eventDate`]] ASC` &dateSource=`eventDate:strtotime`]]

I wrote a snippet (unixtime) which converts from string to unix timestamp which seems to work for orderby, it doesn’t work for dateSource though, and I don’t know whether I can use the filters in the way I have tried here.

My chunk looks like this:

<h3>[[+title]] - [[+date]]</h3>
<p>[[+introtext]] <a href="[[~[[+id]]]]">More >></a></p>

I am getting Dec 69 as my date, can any suggest a way I might get this to work?

Thanks

Tom

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opengeek Reply #14, 13 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: tomhollis at Sep 28, 2010, 08:06 AM

I am getting Dec 69 as my date, can any suggest a way I might get this to work?

Is there a reason getResources will not work for your needs here? TBH, Ditto needs a lot of work for Revolution and no one has yet stepped up to volunteer to maintain it.

Jason Coward
Chief Architect @ MODX
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tomhollis Reply #15, 13 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: OpenGeek at Sep 28, 2010, 01:25 PM

Is there a reason getResources will not work for your needs here?

I don’t think so, I will try that, thanks

Tom

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dafyk Reply #16, 13 years, 6 months ago

I use Ditto to generate google sitemap xml. I am not sure if its possible to do with getResources.
I have fixed incorect date by fixing 2 lines in ditto.class.inc.php:

Line 964 contains:

$resource[$dateSource] = $dateValue + $modx->config["server_offset_time"];

replace it with this code:

$resource[$dateSource] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($dateValue)) . " +".$modx->config["server_offset_time"]." hours"));

And line 294 contains:

$placeholders['date'] = strftime($dateFormat,$timestamp);

replace it with this code:

$placeholders['date'] = strftime($dateFormat,strtotime($timestamp));

Its ugly fix and there must be better way to fix this issue, but my coding skills are not good enoug to come up with easier date/time conversions

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tkfm Reply #17, 13 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: dafyk at Sep 29, 2010, 08:28 PM

I use Ditto to generate google sitemap xml. I am not sure if its possible to do with getResources.

I’m using GoogleSiteMap snippet on Revo.
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/GoogleSiteMap

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algol99 Reply #18, 13 years, 1 month ago

Thanks a lot dafyk. i fix the ditto date problem in a minute.

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codebyte Reply #19, 11 years, 7 months ago

Quote from: pcmodem at Apr 08, 2010, 04:44 PM

I am running:
MODx Revolution 2.0.0-rc-1 rev6614
Ditto 3.0 Alpha 3

The formatting is coming out "By Default Admin User on December 31, 1969 18:33." The publishedon date is not December 31, 1969, it is April 09, 2010
[[Ditto? &parents=`11` &display=`2` &tpl=`ditto_news` &dateSource=`publishedon` &dateFormat=`%B %d, %Y %H:%M` &paginate=`1` &extenders=`summary` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`]]
<div class="ditto_summaryPost">
  <h3><a href="[[ ~[[+id]] ]]" title="[[+title]]">[[+title]]</a></h3>
  <div class="ditto_info" >By <strong>[[+author]]</strong> on [[+date]]. </div>
  [[+summary]]
  <p class="ditto_link">[[+link]]</p>
</div>
Any thoughts?

I made a fix, Just open Ditto snippet in manager, and find line:

for ($x=$start;$x<$stop;$x++) {
            $template=$ditto->template->determine($templates,$x,0,$stop,$resource[$x]["id"]);

Add A Line Before This:

$renderedOutput=....

Line:

$resource[$x]['publishedon']=strtotime($resource[$x]['publishedon']);

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