Showing "updated" if document revision date is less than 'x' days old

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leemchildress Reply #1, 12 years, 8 months ago

Howdy all:

In my footer I have the standard Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, etc. Those links in the footer are displayed using Wayfinder. My goal is if I were to modify one of the documents in the footer, Wayfinder somehow could check if the revision date of the resource is less than x days old and if so place "Updated" next to the document name. Am i asking too much of Wayfinder?

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sottwell Reply #2, 12 years, 8 months ago

You need a snippet to determine if the editedon date (a timestamp) is less than today's timestamp minus the number of seconds in x days (86400*$days). Have it return "Updated" if so, or nothing if not. Then you could use that snippet in the rowTpl.

<li...  [[!updated]]</li>

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leemchildress Reply #3, 12 years, 8 months ago

Duh! I am so stupid. I never thought about placing a snippet in the template. How easy can that be???!! Thank you so much for your help.

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leemchildress Reply #4, 12 years, 8 months ago

I guess I'm perhaps still stupid. sad

Here is my snippet:

<?php
//
// Example: [[!Updated? &created_date=`[[*publishedon]]` &revision_date=`[[*editedon]]`]]
//
if (time() - strtotime($created_date) < (86400 * 14)) {
    $output = '';
    $output .= $created_date;
    $output = ' <span class="badge">New</span>';
    return $output;
} elseif (time() - strtotime($revision_date) < (86400 * 14)) {
    $output = '';
    $output .= $revision_date;
    $output = ' <span class="badge">Updated</span>';
    return $output;
} else {
    return '';
}

My template looks like this:

<a[[+wf.id]][[+wf.classes]] href="[[+wf.link]]" title="[[+wf.title]]" [[+wf.attributes]]>[[+wf.linktext]]</a>[[!Updated? &created_date=`[[+wf.publishedon]]]` &revision_date=`[[+wf.editedon]]`]]

You can see from the Example in the code the call I am using to pass the parameters. However, the published date and the edited date are not being passed. What am I missing?

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BobRay Reply #5, 12 years, 8 months ago

I don't think Wayfinder sets those placeholders.

BTW, if you want the creation date, you might want 'createdon' rather than 'publishedon'.

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leemchildress Reply #6, 12 years, 8 months ago

I chose publishedon rather than createdon just in case I did create a document which I chose not to publish immediately. So is there a work around to pass the publishedon/editedon fields to my snippet?

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BobRay Reply #7, 12 years, 8 months ago

By default, unpublished docs wouldn't show anyway, so createdon would be more accurate -- unless the publication date is actually what you want (though in that case, I would change the name of the property to avoid confusing myself later wink

).

What version of Wayfinder are you using? It looks like I was wrong:

Since version 2.3.0 you can use placeholders for all fields of a Resource, such as [[+introtext]], [[+menutitle]], [[+published]], etc.

You might try using them without the wf. prefix.

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leemchildress Reply #8, 12 years, 8 months ago

Newest version of Wayfinder (installed yesterday).

First off, I changed $created_date to $published_date for the sake of symantics!

Removed the wf. prefix and still the variables are not being passed.

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leemchildress Reply #9, 12 years, 8 months ago

SOLVED.

I resolved the issue by changing my code to:

//
// Example: [[!Updated? &id=`[[+wf.docid]]`]]
//
$object = $modx->getObject('modResource',$id);
$published_date = $object->get('publishedon');
$revision_date = $object->get('editedon');
if (time() - strtotime($published_date) < (86400 * 14)) {
    $output = '';
    $output .= $created_date;
    $output = ' <span class="badge">New</span>';
    return $output;
} elseif (time() - strtotime($revision_date) < (86400 * 14)) {
    $output = '';
    $output .= $revision_date;
    $output = ' <span class="badge">Updated</span>';
    return $output;
} else {
    return '';
}

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leemchildress Reply #10, 12 years, 8 months ago

SOLVED.

I resolved the issue by changing my code to:

//
// Example: [[!Updated? &id=`[[+wf.docid]]`]]
//
$object = $modx->getObject('modResource',$id);
$published_date = $object->get('publishedon');
$revision_date = $object->get('editedon');
if (time() - strtotime($published_date) < (86400 * 14)) {
    $output = '';
    $output .= $created_date;
    $output = ' <span class="badge">New</span>';
    return $output;
} elseif (time() - strtotime($revision_date) < (86400 * 14)) {
    $output = '';
    $output .= $revision_date;
    $output = ' <span class="badge">Updated</span>';
    return $output;
} else {
    return '';
}