Retriving date of document

Hi,

I´m new to MODx, and I´m currently making my first site using it.

I´ve set up a simple blog, and on the page where you can read the entire blog post (having pressed "read more.."), I currently have the title and content of the blog entry using [*content*] and [*pagetitle*]. The only thing I´m missing is the date. I couldn´t find a [*date*] type tag, or similar. I´ve tried to use a the snippet GetTime, but it only returns 1.january 1970.

How can I display the date of the document on my page?

Best Regards,

Kyle

you can try using [*createdon*] which will display the date and time the item was created.

this also might be a valuable resource: http://modxcms.com/document-tvs.html

-Brian

Thank you very much for your help!

But [’createdon*] only returns a very large integer. I found the following on the page you linked to "This is not a "normal" date, and must be processed by a script for meaningful output. Example: strftime("%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S", $value)"

I´m afraid I don´t quite understand how I use the script to format the date. Any help would be much appreciated!

Kyle

Download and install the following snippet.

http://modxcms.com/DateTime-884.html

Once you have that up and running you will want to use it as follows:

[[DateTime? &format=`%d.%m.%Y` &timestamp=`[*createdon*]`]]

You can use info found on http://us.php.net/strftime to format it the way you like.

Let me know how you make out.

Thank you very much! Worked perfectly!

Kyle