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DougH
Posted: 10 March 2005 07:22 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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I want to assign the value of {entry_date} to a variable. I’m trying to use:

$var = {entry_date}

but I’m getting a parse error. What else do I need to do to assign the tag value correctly?
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Paul Burdick
Posted: 10 March 2005 08:15 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I think it will be outputted as a string since we are doing a str_replace to get it in there, so try this:

$var = ‘{entry_date}’;

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DougH
Posted: 10 March 2005 08:54 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Tried your suggestion, Paul. It doesn’t give me an error now. However…when I return the value of $var, it’s actually returning {entry_date} instead of the unix timestamp.
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Chris Curtis
Posted: 10 March 2005 09:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Doug, please don’t post the same thing to multiple forums.  It’s a bit rude (a form of spamming), makes support more difficult, and makes it harder for other people to find threads with answers when they’re searching.

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Paul Burdick
Posted: 10 March 2005 10:04 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Hm, I don’t know where the other forum post is, so I will answer here.  Are you doing this with PHP on output?  It will not work on PHP on Input since entry_date will not be set yet.

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DougH
Posted: 10 March 2005 10:07 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Sorry, Chris. It was unintentional. I had posted in the general forum before I realized that there was a forum for technical assistance.
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DougH
Posted: 10 March 2005 10:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Yes, Paul…the template in question is set to parse PHP on output.
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Paul Burdick
Posted: 10 March 2005 10:24 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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And this is in a {exp:weblog:entries} tag, right?  I tested this last night and it worked, or so it seemed.

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Posted: 10 March 2005 10:27 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Yes it is.
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Paul Burdick
Posted: 10 March 2005 10:32 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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OK, this is what I have in my weblog/index template’s {exp:weblog:entries} tag with that template having PHP on Output set in the Template Preferences:

<?php

$date = ‘{entry_date}’;

echo “<p>Entry Date: $date</p>”;

?>

Outputs exactly what I expect.

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DougH
Posted: 10 March 2005 10:44 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Here’s the relevant portion of code that I have in my plugin:

<?php

class Post_time

{

var $return_data = "";

  function Post_time()

  {

  global $TMPL;

  $parameter = $TMPL->fetch_param('entry');

  if ($parameter == "entry")
    $time_post = '{entry_date}'; /* unix time of post */
  else if ($parameter == "comment")
    $time_post = '{comment_date}'; /* unix time of comment */
  
  $this->return_data = $time_post;

  }

}

?>

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Paul Burdick
Posted: 10 March 2005 10:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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You’re putting this into a plugin?  Oh, I thought you were putting PHP code in a template.

Um, well, um…that’s not going to work then.  What are you trying to do?

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