[SOLVED]PHx date formatting a timestamp to show only month and day

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GOATC Reply #1, 15 years ago

I am attempting to display just the month and day ( format MM - DD ) from a timestamp containing the actual birthday of a user. I’m using WebLoginPE - and it will display the correct timestamp on its own, when I try to parse that datestamp with PHx, it displays nothing.

The call..

[+view.dob:date=`%e - %m`*]

The result: <blank space where the call should be>

Anyone have any ideas how I can try to format these dates in this manner? I just don’t want to show folks’ birthyears.

Thanks for any ideas...

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Katzenfutter Reply #2, 15 years ago

If you simply can´t get it with PHx, for whatever reason... what about a little snippet to format your date-string?
Just pass it over to your snippet and do what ever you like directly in PHP and let it return the value you like.

[!date_snippet?date=`[+date+]`!]

<?php
$date = isset($date) ? $date : null;
//Format your date here as you like
return $date;
?>

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kp52 Reply #3, 15 years ago

Is that asterisk before the closing quote there in the actual page? I don’t use WebloginPE, but I would have thought a plus sign would work better. shocked

[+view.dob:date=`%e - %m`*]

KP

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Katzenfutter Reply #4, 15 years ago

Should clean my glasses that aren´t there...
Plus would work right well I think.

But my version with a snippet and just PHP works fine, too wink

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GOATC Reply #5, 15 years ago

Thank you everyone!

I actually just misstyped the * - that’s what I get for not copying/pasting! It was a ’+’

Katzenfutter - I’m admittedly a bit PHP green, but I don’t understand the syntax here..

<?php
$date = isset($date) ? $date : null;
//Format your date here as you like
return $date;
?>

The isset part... what is the ? for? Is it basically "If isset($date)=False, THEN $date=null, Else <format date>?

I’ve never used a ? in a php statement like that - any help you can give would be awesome!

Thanks from a newb.

BTW, I Googled my heart out, but googling for punctuation marks is less-than-optimal! cool

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sottwell Reply #6, 15 years ago

http://www.totallyphp.co.uk/tutorials/using_if_else_ternary_operators.htm

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Katzenfutter Reply #7, 15 years ago

For using google: try to use quoatation marks for your search strings as they might contain some special characters like ampersands and other signs...

The other question about that question mark: it´s the ternary operator. It´s used for a shorter syntax of an if/else-statement.
I was just giving you an hint on how to write your code in that specific snippet, but I´ll try to explain what i meant here.

$date = isset($date) ? $date : null;

isset() asserts that the variable $date has been set before, if that expression (isset($date)) returns false, $date is being set to "null".

Otherwise i could have said the following:

if(isset($date))
{
$date = $date;
}
else
{
 $date = null;
}

I just followed the "best practices" here: http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Creating_Snippets#Snippet_parameters_should_always_have_a_default_value

Hope that helps.

Cheers

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GOATC Reply #8, 15 years ago

Thank you both very much. I greatly appreciate your help.