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    Frank Reply #11, 13 years, 3 months ago
    Date error,

    hi I am using this Metatags extra on most of my site s. One small problem however. The copyright script bit, pulls the year 2005(?)

    // *** AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, PUBLISHER and COMPANY ***
$authorid = $modx->documentObject['createdby'];
$createdon = date(Y,$modx->documentObject['createdon']);

  $MetaCopyright = " <meta name=\"copyright\" content=\"Copyright (c) $createdon by $authorname. All rights reserved.\" />\n";


    Changing that to following, the date jumps back to 1970 (?)

    // *** AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, PUBLISHER and COMPANY ***
$authorid = $modx->documentObject['createdby'];

$createdon = date(Y,$modx->documentObject['createdon:date=`%d.%m.%Y`']);
  $MetaCopyright = " <meta name=\"copyright\" content=\"Copyright (c) $createdon by $authorname. All rights reserved.\" />\n";


    For the rest it s a nice snippet I think, so if someone could figure out what s wrong here)

    thanks.
    • sottwell Reply #12, 13 years, 3 months ago
      The PHP date() function expects a UNIX timestamp. If you feed it a string, as you are doing when you pre-convert the field value, it will revert to 0, which was arbitrarily set as 1970 as the beginning of the "UNIX era". Since PHP uses the C libraries available on the server, some systems don’t support negative values (dates before 1970).
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        Frank Reply #13, 13 years, 3 months ago
        Okay, understood, is there another way to fill that copyright bit with the website "create on date?". I just could leave it out or "hardcode" it, I guess?

        Solved it the hardcoding:

        // *** AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, PUBLISHER and COMPANY ***
$authorid = $modx->documentObject['createdby'];
$createdon =2011;
        • AMDbuilder Reply #14, 13 years, 3 months ago
          Did you take a look at how it was done in MetaX by any chance?
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