How to display a chunk based on date

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BobbyG66 Reply #1, 12 years ago

I have a registration button setup in a chunk. (regButton)
I have it displayed on the page, but want to hide it once the event date passes.
Does anyone have an idea on how to do this?

Here is what I have tried with no luck.

[[*eventDate:gt=`[[!dateToday]]`:then=`[[$regButton]]`:else=``]]

Using the If add on. Not sure if operands support TV's.

[[!If?
   &subject=`[[+dateToday]]`
   &operator=`<`
   &operand=`[[*eventDate]]`
   &then=`[[$regButton]]`
   &else=``
]]

Thanks
BG66

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chrischerrett Reply #2, 12 years ago

Do it in a snippet. There you can interrogate the current date, then return the chunk if the $eventDate has not passed, otherwise return nothing.

<?php
if(time() < $eventDate){
    return $modx->getChunk('regButton');
}
return "";

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BobRay Reply #3, 12 years ago

Note that this will only work if $eventDate is a unix timestamp (if it's just a number when you display it, it should be fine). If it's a human-readable date/time (which MODX returns by default for all date fields), you'd have to convert it:

if(time() < strtotime($eventDate)){

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BobbyG66 Reply #4, 12 years ago

Quote from: chrischerrett at Oct 22, 2014, 08:39 AM

Do it in a snippet. There you can interrogate the current date, then return the chunk if the $eventDate has not passed, otherwise return nothing.
getChunk('regButton');
}
return "";

Thanks, this is almost working.
I can only get the button to post when I reverse the less than "<" symbol to greater than ">".
I also played around with different php and unix date code formats with no luck.

My snippet call on the page is

[[registrationButton]]

My eventDate output options are

%A, %B %d, %Y

Thanks
BG66

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BobRay Reply #5, 12 years ago

Did you try my suggestion above for line 3?

Are you sure $eventDate is set to some value in the snippet? Typically, you'd have to do something like this:

[[registrationButton? &eventDate=`[[*eventDate]] ]]

Then in the snippet:

$eventDate = $modx->getOption('eventDate', $scriptProperties);

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exside Reply #6, 12 years ago

what about caching issues, seems you're calling the snippet cached? How would it then re-evaluate the current date?

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BobbyG66 Reply #7, 11 years, 11 months ago

Thanks for everyone's help! It's working now!
Here are the details.

Template Variable:
eventDate
Output options

%A, %B %e, %Y

Chunk:
regButton

<a href="[[~27]]"><div class="button round">Register today!</div></a>

Snippet:
registrationButton

<?php
$eventDate = $modx->getOption('eventDate', $scriptProperties);
if(time() < strtotime($eventDate)){
    return $modx->getChunk('regButton');
}
return "";

Snippet call on page:

[[!registrationButton? &eventDate=`[[*eventDate]]` ]]

Thanks
BG66

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BobRay Reply #8, 11 years, 11 months ago

I'm glad you got it sorted. Thanks for reporting back.

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BobbyG66 Reply #9, 11 years, 11 months ago

Quote from: BobRay at Oct 23, 2014, 02:48 PM

I'm glad you got it sorted. Thanks for reporting back.

Me too!
Thanks for the great support on a great product.
Thanks to BobRay, exside, and chrischerrett!!!

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