[solved] +publishedon outputs "0"

Hi using Rev0 2.2.8

I presume I need to change a setting somewhere but when I use [[+publishedon]] in a chunk it just outputs a 0.

Not sure if this is anything to do with it also but under system settings all the dates show as Jan 1 1970 including the ones that have gad settings changed like site name.

Can anyone offer any clues

Many thanks

Ian [ed. note: ianman last edited this post 13 years, 2 months ago.]

Jan 1 1970 is the Unix epoch: it's 0 expressed as a date (according to Unix), so it's pretty common to see that as a date when dealing with code.

Did you perhaps mean to use instead?

You may need to use strtotime or the date output filter (or both), and maybe test for nonzero values.

Thanks for the reply,

I have now tried a number of things just within the site template such as [[*publishedon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %T`]] but this outputs nothing at all.
As for using the [[+publishedon]] instead of the [[*publishedon]] was because I am using getpage and the date is meant to be output via a chunk so I was of the understanding that I needed the + otherwise it would output the date of the current document getpage is running inside of I might have that wrong but I have tried both.

I found this post https://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=56339.&i=1&page=3 copied that snippet called it outputdate then in my template added this [[outputdate]] not sure if I need to add something else to it but does not output anything as you can tell I am not a programmer.

Is there any tutorial you might know of I can follow just to get any type of date format working this is just to show a posted on date.

Thanks

Ian

Is your resource published? when it isn't published [[*publishedon]] is supposed to be 0

RDG

Resource #1, which is installed by default, does not have a "publishedon" date, since it was never actually published.

Everything is published but I also tried created on with same result.

However I also found this post and used this fixdate snippet https://forums.modx.com/thread/44926/displaying-properly---converting-any-unix-timestamp-for-display

To call this snippet I used


and the output of this is:
&timeStamp patameter not set!

Does that offer any clues I am totally lost!

Many thanks for help so far

Ian

Here's a chunk tpl I just tried, using pdoResources (a mostly drop-in replacement for getResources)

Quote from: sottwell at Aug 08, 2013, 04:24 AM

Here's a chunk tpl I just tried, using pdoResources (a mostly drop-in replacement for getResources)

<li>[[+pagetitle]] - [[[[+publishedon:is=`0`:then=`+createdon`:else=`+publishedon`]]:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %T`]]</li>

I just tried dropping that straight into the template with no output am I meant do to anything else with that.

Also I looked at the database using phpmyadmin and the pub_date column under the mod_site_content is just all 0
Could it be that no time is being recorded in the database.
I am using a cloudhost account with TSOhosts not sure if that might be an issue.

Many thanks

Ian

Ok, if the database is all 0 then you have a problem with recording dates. Check your PHP default_timezone setting; also check your PHP error log to see if you're getting any errors for that.

Quote from: sottwell at Aug 08, 2013, 04:37 AM

Ok, if the database is all 0 then you have a problem with recording dates. Check your PHP default_timezone setting; also check your PHP error log to see if you're getting any errors for that.

I might have to raise a support ticket with the hosts as I am only use to a cpanel backend and there is no php error log visible on this control panel.

Can I ask what I need to get checked o the php default timezone settings this is stuff I have never been involved with.

At least I know why none of my date setting would work.

Many thanks