Changing the date and time of a document

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webguy Reply #1, 18 years, 9 months ago

Hi all,

I want to show a blog-like list on my site using Ditto. Every blog items will describe a project I did for clients.
These projects have been done in the past.
If I add new documents, they all het the date and time of [now]. Ditto shows the date with the [+date+] code...

Is it possible to change the date and time of a document te reflect the date we did the project?
Or, is the solution this: remove the date from the ditto template and add the date manually in the content...?

Thanks,
Rene

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sottwell Reply #2, 18 years, 9 months ago

How about setting the publish_date for when you did the project, then get Ditto to display that?

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webguy Reply #3, 18 years, 9 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Jan 21, 2008, 09:21 AM

How about setting the publish_date for when you did the project, then get Ditto to display that?

Thanks. I’ll give that a try...

Ren

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Ryan Thrash Reply #4, 18 years, 9 months ago

Use the Doc Manager module to change dates if you still need to do so.

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webguy Reply #5, 18 years, 9 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Jan 21, 2008, 09:21 AM

How about setting the publish_date for when you did the project, then get Ditto to display that?

Hello sotwell,

I tried this in my template:

<div class="ditto_summaryPost">
  <h3><a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="[+title+]">[+title+]</a></h3>
  <div class="ditto_info" ><?php echo strftime("%d-%m-%Y",[+pub_date+]); ?>.</div>
  [+summary+]
  <p class="ditto_link">[+link+]</p>
</div>

But it doesn’t display a date. Any suggestions what I did wrong?

Ren

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sottwell Reply #6, 18 years, 9 months ago

MODx doesn’t use regular php tags like that. You’ll need to use phx in the placeholder to format the timestamp.

[+pub_date:date=`%d.%m.%Y`+]

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx#date.28.3D.60dateformat.60.29

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webguy Reply #7, 18 years, 9 months ago

Thanks! That did it!

Ren