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createdon date format

todd.b — Apr 25, 2018, 04:08 AM

Revo 2.6.3

When I reformat the default createdon date (2018-04-14 01:42:55) to a simple month/day/year I get an incorrect date: February 27, 2015. Not sure where that date is coming from.

I followed Bob's article https://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2013/09/18/displaying-modx-date-fields/.

[[!DateFormat? &field=`createdon` &formatString=`%b %d, %Y`]]

Re: createdon date format

nuan88 — Apr 28, 2018, 09:45 PM

I am excited about this thread but can't contribute currently, I hope I can add value here in a week..or so

Anyone reading who has similar issues/questions should go ahead and jump in now while the water is fine!

Re: createdon date format

andytough — Apr 28, 2018, 09:36 AM

Thank you Bob. I had seen exactly what you thought people might see and missed the point entirely;

Re: createdon date format

BobRay — Apr 28, 2018, 03:53 AM

Just a clarification for others reading this, single quotes and double quotes both work fine with date(). It's the missing semicolon that matters.

Re: createdon date format (Best Answer)

todd.b — Apr 27, 2018, 12:34 AM

Oh, that snippet has been there all along. In fact the (registerDate) value is displayed on the front-end if I manually add it via the Manager.

So the problem isn't the placeholder or the ClassExtender field, it's that my PHP wasn't generating the date, but I found the problem. I changed it from this:

Re: createdon date format

BobRay — Apr 26, 2018, 09:53 PM

To show the custom field, you need this tag somewhere above the placeholder:

[[!SetUserPlaceholders]]

Re: createdon date format

todd.b — Apr 26, 2018, 05:10 PM

Ah yes, of course. I forgot about the no PHP in a Chunk thing. That explains why gets written to the db and not the actual date.

Manually entering the date works perfectly.

Ok, then is the solution to put in a snippet then call it from the Chunk?

Re: createdon date format

andytough — Apr 26, 2018, 07:35 AM
If this code is in your html form in a chunk or content area, then the php will not work as php can only exist in a snippet

Then displayed it on the Profile page as

[[+registerDate]]

If you go to the Manager is the date stored in the users profile?

If it isn't showing in the manager, can you enter a date there and see if it saves?

If it doesn't save from the manager then your field has not been created correctly by ClassExtender.

If it does save from the manager does it display using your profile page code?

[[+registerDate]]

Re: createdon date format

todd.b — Apr 26, 2018, 04:07 AM
Well, that's strange.

Ok, so with that being the case I used ClassExtender to create a new registerDate field and included it in the Register form as a hidden field,

Then displayed it on the Profile page as

[[+registerDate]]

But the result is empty.

Re: createdon date format

BobRay — Apr 25, 2018, 10:04 PM
I'm afraid there is no date stored for the creation of a user record, unless you store it yourself (though there should be). It could go in an unused text (string) user profile field.