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Hey,

I wonder if someone would kindly advise me on how I might achieve the following:

I have a weblog for displaying ‘gig dates’  I am displaying all the gig dates on the page including past gig dates [i.e. expired entries].

However, when a gig date has ‘expired’ I would like to dynamically display these with different CSS i.e. greyed out or striked through.

Any ideas how I might achieve this?

Thanks

Shelley

Hi, Shelly.

Are you actually expiring the entries?

Hi Sue,

Yes, I want to expire the entries but still display them on the page. 

I was just thinking about it some more wondering whether there might be a conditional statement I could use to check if an entry has expired and if so apply a class=“pastgig” or something along those lines so the expired entries can be styled differently?...

What do you think ?

Cheers Shelley

Yes, I want to expire the entries but still display them on the page.

You know how to achieve that, I presume, using the show_expired parameter? Then simply use a conditional base on expiration_date:

{if expiration_date != "0" && "{expiration_date format='%U'}" < "{current_time format='%U'}"} 
   This is a dead entry. Bereft of life, it has ceased to be.
{/if}

Makes sense?

So to add a class to the expired entries it would be:

{if expiration_date != "0" && "{expiration_date format='%U'}” < “{current_time format='%U'}” class=“something”}
  This is a dead entry. Bereft of life, it has ceased to be.
{/if}

Correct?

Thanks

No, more like

{exp:channel:entries ...  show_expired parameter="yes"}
 ...
<div{if expiration_date != "0" && "{expiration_date format='%U'}" < "{current_time format='%U'}"}
 class="foo"{/if}>
{/exp:channel:entries}

perfect! Thank you

Hi shellfish,

Glad that Ingmar was able to help you with this. Please post back if required.

Cheers

Greg