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Hi

In my detail from e weblog entry, i want to insert a conditional. I want to check if the entry_date is before or after the current date. I know about the start_on and stop_before parameters, but that’s not what I want. I want to display the whole post, doesn’t matter when the entry date is, but only show a certain sentence if that post has an entry_date greater than today.

Who can help me out?

Thanx a lot

Bart

Not a cut and paste solution but I’m sure you’ll get the idea:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="newblog" disable="categories|member_data|trackbacks|pagination" limit="10"}
<?php $today=strtotime("now");
$the_date= "{entry_date}";
if ($the_date > $today) { ?>
Your sentence here    
<?php } else { ?>
Your EE output here {body} etc…    
<?php } ?>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

enable php and set parsing to output in your template.

PHP’s all well, of course, but not strictly needed in this case, I think: You could simply compare {entry_date} and {current_time}.

D’oh!  😊

Hi

Well, I tried to compqre {entry_date} and {current_time}, but it gave me an error. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. Can somebody give me the right way to do it? (Without php)

You could probably assign some format= to your date variable. %U (UNIX Timestamp) works best if you use it only for comparison purposes:

{if "{entry_date format='%U'}" > "{current_time format='%U'}"}

foo

{/if}

Give that a try, will you?

ok thanx a lot
coming from a php background, i’m not into the curly-brackets-thing. I think it looked a bit strange. Thanks!

It’s pretty straight forward, once you get used to it. Curly quotes serve double duty here for EE variables, not just to delimit functions, clauses and such, the way they do in PHP.

I tried this:

{if "{entry_date format='%U'}" > "{current_time format='%U'}"}foo{/if}

and it throws back an error.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /.../core/core.functions.php(637) : eval()‘d code on line 3

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Ultimately I need to do something more complex like this:

{if "{expiration_date format='%D, %F %d, %Y - %g:%i:%s'}" > "{current_time format='%D, %F %d, %Y - %g:%i:%s'}" AND "{entry_date format='%D, %F %d, %Y - %g:%i:%s'}" < "{current_time format='%D, %F %d, %Y - %g:%i:%s'}"} foo {/if}

But errs. Any ideas?  I’m trying to schedule the LG Poll module, but Mr. L.G. didn’t build in a way to “schedule” or make polls appear on their entry date.  They just start on the entry date (and indicate so-only) as well as close on their expiration date (and just indicate so).

This poll closed on {expiration_date format="%D, %F %d, %Y - %g:%i:%s"}

He told me that I could create a conditional statement, but I am having a bit of trouble with the logic.

Thanks!

bump.  :coolmad:

Have you found a solution grantmx?

Sorry, it works perfectly for me as is. Make sure to be on the latest version and build, and get your chars right (beware the typographical quote).

Nothing viable.  Wound up doing it manually for the time being.

Funny… As I’ve said, it works “as is” for me. Flawlessly.

You used my syntax and used it with the Poll module?  Interesting…