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Determining whether an entry is a single day or last for two or more days.

June 29, 2011 6:23am

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  • #1 / Jun 29, 2011 6:23am

    D.Warren

    2 posts

    I am trying to set up a scheduled closings section in a template. My hurdle is some closings are a single date and some are a date range that is two or more days.

    <ul>
      {exp:channel:entries channel="closings" show_expired="yes" status="Scheduled"
      show_future_entries="yes" year="{current_time format="%Y"}" orderby="date"}
      <li>{title} {entry_date format="%F the %j<sup>%S</sup>"}</li>
      {/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>
    <ul>
      {exp:channel:entries channel="closings" show_expired="yes" status="Scheduled" 
      show_future_entries="yes" year="{current_time format="%Y"}" orderby="date"}
      <li>{title} {entry_date format="%F the %j<sup>%S</sup>"} through {expiration_date format="%F the %j<sup>%S</sup>"}</li>
      {/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

    I guess some sort of if statement could take care of this but not sure how to go about that, possibly some php. I am mainly a HTML/CSS guy so my php knowledge is lacking.

    EE2 v2.1.3
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    Thanks

    EDIT: This was my first post, looks like I should have posted it in “Community Help” not sure if it can be moved or I should delete and repost to “Community Help”?

    Moved to Community Help forum by Moderator

  • #2 / Jun 29, 2011 2:46pm

    Sue Crocker

    26054 posts

    Welcome to the ExpressionEngine forums, D.Warren. I’ll be happy to move it for you..

  • #3 / Jul 04, 2011 1:31pm

    D.Warren

    2 posts

    I was making this way more complicated than it was. All I needed to do was to compare the entry_date to the expiration_date.

    <ul>
        {exp:channel:entries channel="closings" show_expired="yes" status="Scheduled" show_future_entries="yes" year="{current_time format="%Y"}" orderby="date"}
    <li>
        {if {entry_date format="%m%d%Y"} != {expiration_date format="%m%d%Y"}}{title} {entry_date format="%F the %j<sup>%S</sup>"} through  {expiration_date format="%F the %j<sup>%S</sup>"}
        {if:else}{title} {entry_date format="%F the %j<sup>%S</sup>"}{/if}
    </li>
    {/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

  • #4 / Aug 21, 2012 3:27pm

    OrganizedFellow

    435 posts

    The above solution (post#2) should work for me,
    but it is not.
    I am using v2.5.0 - Build Date: 20120507.

    {if {entry_date format="%m%d%Y"} != {expiration_date format="%m%d%Y"} }
...
{if:else}
...
{/if}

    Instead, I get a PHP parse error.

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/xxx/public_html/system/expressionengine/libraries/Functions.php(680) : eval()'d code on line 135

    Anyone have a solution?

  • #5 / Aug 22, 2012 7:59am

    e-man

    1816 posts

    Try using either:

    {if '{entry_date format="%m%d%Y"}' != '{expiration_date format="%m%d%Y"}' }

    OR

    {if entry_date != expiration_date}

  • #6 / Aug 22, 2012 3:37pm

    OrganizedFellow

    435 posts

    Thanks e-man.
    Giving that a try.

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