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My first (very simple) addon - Simpledate outputs the current date or the page’s last modified date using PHP formatting options.

Simpledate has two functions:

{mojo:simpledate:get}

simply returns the current date.

{mojo:simpledate:get_last_modified}

returns the page’s last modified date.

Format parameter using PHP formatting options:

{mojo:simpledate:get format="Y-m-d"}

will return something like “2010-08-01”

If no format parameter is used, Simpledate will default to “F j Y” (e.g. August 1 2010).

Offset parameter in seconds:

{mojo:simpledate:get offset="172800"}

will add 2 days (60 * 60 * 24 * 2) to the current date.  Prefix the seconds with a negative sign to subtract time, e.g., offset=”-172800”.

Download and documentation:
http://github.com/aaronfowler/mojo-simpledate

-Aaron

Way to go Aaron! Thanks for contributing to the community!

Nice work, Aaron!

Ooh, this is nice! Hadn’t thought of this. Good job 😊

Aaron, is it possible to return the present date minus x number of days? I have a client that does a sales letter that appears to be current as of 2 days earlier. 😊

Aaron, is it possible to return the present date minus x number of days? I have a client that does a sales letter that appears to be current as of 2 days earlier. 😊

If you know the timestamp of that sales letter, you can input that to the the get tag like this (where 123123123 is your timestamp):

{mojo:simpledate:get time="123123123"

Sue,

Version 1.1 now has an “offset” parameter to allow you to do this.

Both tags accept an offset parameter in seconds:

{mojo:simpledate:get offset="172800"}

will add 2 days (60 * 60 * 24 * 2) to the current date.  Prefix the seconds with a negative sign to subtract time, e.g., offset=”-172800”.

Maverfax is also correct - there is an undocumented “time” parameter that accepts a Unix timestamp.

-Aaron

The offset will work great! Thanks again.

Hi Aaron,

I’ve tried installing simpledate, but i keep getting the error:

An Error Was Encountered
Unable to load the requested class: simpledate

I’m using MM 1.1.1 and have tried simpledate 1.1 and 1.2.

I checked that i’m installing addons correctly by installing Fumito Mizuno’s Breadcrumb - and this works fine.

Any thoughts???

Thanks

Sorry for the trouble. There seems to be some file permission problems when I upload to Github. I’ve deleted the bad files.

If you go to the Simpledate Github repository and click Downloads, any of the versions now there should work.

Aaron

Thanks Aaron - worked a charm!

Many thanks for this Aaron, excellent stuff!! 😊