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Hello

I am moving all the content over from an existing website (on a completely different platform) to my EE site (1.7.1)

This includes some comments on some of the blog posts. We are entering these manually - but when displayed they all have today’s date.

As far as I can see there’s no way to change the date of a comment - is that right?

Could there be a way to write some code that says…

If the comment was posted on/before May 14th 2011 (for example), then… Posted by {author}

If the comment was posted after May 14th 2011, then… Posted by {author} on {comment_date format='%F %d, %Y'}

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Marian

Hi Marian,

You can certainly change the date of a comment if you directly manipulate the database tables. However, for the second part of your question you should be able to do something like this in the comment entries tag:

{if comment_date < '1305417660'}
.... Posted by {author}
{if:else}
... Posted by {author} on {comment_date format=’%F %d, %Y’}
{/if}

The first conditional checks the comment_date against 15th May 2011 at 00:01. The value shown is unixtime and I converted it here. Does that help?

Cheers

Greg

Hi Greg,

Thank you very much. I have implemented the code and it does exactly what I wanted.

(I’m a bit nervous about changing the database…)

Thanks again,

Marian

Awesome, Marian. Glad Greg helped!