Quote from: ripper at Dec 05, 2007, 05:12 PM
It’s exactly what I’m looking for tuatara ! Could you send me this plugin ?
This is it below (I had published it before but I think that was in the commercial support forum). I’d put it on the repository, but I’m not a million percent convinced it handles all time zones correctly ... although it works fine for me, 19 zones from the web server. Also there are a couple of pages that should not have pub_date set, and I’m not certain yet which ones I need to work around. I know the home page can’t have a pub_date; presume others like the error page are the same.
If anyone has any knowledge about the above, I’ll put it on the repository ... perhaps a future version of MODx will make it unnecessary. It’s amazing to me that I can add this kind of core functionality in a simple plugin without hacking at the MODx core at all. Bravo to the MODx devs!
(And don’t forget to check the OnDocFormSave and OnDocPublished events in the plugin config.)
[Edit: just to be clear: with this plugin installed, you should be able to use pub_date in your ditto calls. Obviously it won’t have any effect on already-published articles.]
Cheers
Matt
Plugin:
Correct Dates
Makes sure pub_date and publishedon are correct
/*
* CorrectDates
* When a document is published or set to be published,
* always populate publishedon and pub_date variables correctly
*
* Configuration:
* check the OnDocFormSave and OnDocPublished events
*
* Version 0.1, October 2007
*
* Version 0.1.1, November 2007
* Does nothing if page is start page (which can't have publish dates)
*
*/
function normaliseDates($docid) {
global $modx;
$dates = $modx->getPageInfo($docid, 0, 'publishedon,pub_date');
$pub_date = $dates['pub_date'];
$publishedon = $dates['publishedon'];
$dbtable = $modx->getFullTableName('site_content');
if($publishedon && !$pub_date) {
// set pub_date to the same as publishedon
$modx->db->update('pub_date=' . $publishedon, $dbtable, 'id=' . $docid);
} elseif ($pub_date && !$publishedon) {
// set publishedon to now
$modx->db->update('publishedon=' . time(), $dbtable, 'id=' . $docid);
}
}
$e = &$modx->Event;
switch($e->name) {
case 'OnDocFormSave':
if ($id != $modx->config['site_start']) normaliseDates($id);
break;
case 'OnDocPublished':
if ($id != $modx->config['site_start']) normaliseDates($docid);
break;
}
