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I’m curious - I need to use PHP to get the current date to slap into a weblog entries tag as a parameter.  I can either use the EE function $LOC->decode_date(all the date/time formatting goodies)  or the PHP function date(all the date/time formatting goodies).

Why should/would I use one over the other?  What about performance - seems like date() would be faster wouldn’t it (I know it’s a matter of milliseconds probably, but just curious).

Thanks!

Why can’t you just use {current_time}?

Hmm well you’re right I can. I can’t keep track of all the tags available - I thought there was one but I couldn’t find it…

I was also unsure if this would work:

start_on=”{current_time format="%Y-%m-%d"} 00:01 AM”

It does as I’m sure you know. While I’ve got you here, 😉 Is there a better way to show all entries from only today (both expired and in the future) - I was going to use:

start_on=”{current_time format="%Y-%m-%d"} 00:01 AM” stop_on=”{current_time format="%Y-%m-%d"} 11:59 PM”

Thanks!

I think that’s probably the best way; you might post in how to, to see if others have other ideas.  =)

Also, I only thought of it because that only became usable in 1.6.1 in that manner. =)

You guys need to stop development for a couple years so I can figure out everything EE does and doesn’t do right now (I’ll let you know when I’m all caught up). Then I just need to keep up with the release notes and I’ll be all set!