Can't get the Pub Date to show on Evo Blog [Resolved]

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MarkG Reply #1, 14 years, 5 months ago

Hi,

I've got an Evo Blog that is working nicely except I can't get the date to show in the feed summary.
http://www.makethemclick.com.au/library/feed/

http://makethemclick.com.au/library

Ditto call

[!Ditto? &parents=`22` &hideFolders=`1` &depth=`2` &format=`rss`  &summarize=`10`  &total=`10` &tpl=`blogtest` &hideFolders=`301` &dateSource=`pub_date`
!]

CHUNK

<item>
		<title>[+rss_pagetitle+]</title>
		<link>[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ [+blog-summary+] ]]></description>
[+pub_date+]
	
	<guid isPermaLink="false">[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</guid>

</item>

Any ideas?

Thanks

[ed. note: markg last edited this post 14 years, 4 months ago.]

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bunk58 Reply #2, 14 years, 5 months ago

Try [+date+] instead of [+pub_date+]

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MarkG Reply #3, 14 years, 5 months ago

No luck.

I'm guessing the date is not being called or displayed properly but I can't figure out why.

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kp52 Reply #4, 14 years, 5 months ago

[+pub_date+] is the date an item is due to be published, not the date it was published. It will mostly be an empty field. You could set the &dateSource=`publishedon` in your Ditto call to set up the actual publication date for the [+date+] placeholder.

See http://www.pogwatch.com/ditto/ditto-dates.html for more
:) KP

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BobRay Reply #5, 14 years, 5 months ago

See this also: http://bobsguides.com/published-on-publish-date-confusion.html.

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MarkG Reply #6, 14 years, 5 months ago

Bob, kp,

ok no luck with either of those.

I did have partial luck using [+date+] in a different call, but not the one above which is the one I need.

Let me try and clarify what I'm trying to do.

The set up above is for my rss feed, and I want the date to display in the feed.

Does it need some extra tag around it?

At the moment no matter what I try I can't get the date to appear.

If I try it as a normal document (ie not rss) then I get the date, so I'm not sure why there is a difference.

Does it need some extra tag around the it?

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microcipcip Reply #7, 14 years, 5 months ago

Try this guide, is working very well for me:
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Basic_RSS_feed

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microcipcip Reply #8, 14 years, 5 months ago

Basically this is my set up for the resource:
Internet Media Type: Application/RSS+XML
RichText: disabled
Cacheable: disabled

In the content area I have this:

[[Ditto? &parents=`4` &format=`rss` &summarize=`1000` &depth=`0` &total=`1000` &tpl=`rss_item` &hideFolders=`1`]]

In the "rss_item" chunk I have this:

<item>
		<title>[+rss_pagetitle+]</title>
		<link>[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ [+introtext+] ]]></description>
		<pubDate>[+rss_date+]</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</guid>
</item>

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MarkG Reply #9, 14 years, 5 months ago

Thanks microcipcip,

<pubDate>[+rss_date+]</pubDate>

was what I needed. Working fine now.

However, I have another question, how do I format the date.

I tried Pogwatch's examples without any luck.

I'm using

&dateSource=`publishedon` &dateFormat=`%b %d %Y`

Basically I just want the date and not the time.

but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

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microcipcip Reply #10, 14 years, 5 months ago

Have you tried with PHx? http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx#date.28.3D.60dateformat.60.29

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