Easy timeframe format for channel:entries tag
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Hi there !
I’ve been working with Solspace Calendar add-on and they have this nice easy text format to define time frames for calendar events : https://solspace.com/docs/calendar/date_formatting/ To get events from the last 2 months, I just use
date_range_start="today" date_range_end="2 months"Back to EE tags, I needed to display entries which are 2 months old maximum, and the only way to do that was by using PHP in the template, as shown in the doc : https://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/add-ons/channel/channel_entries.html#start-on
It would be nice to have the same easy to use text format to define time frames. I don’t really like using PHP inside a template (for me it’s not part of the best practices in EE).
What do you think ?
Hi Louis,
It should be set up so that you can do this:
start_on="-2 months"Does that work for you?
Sorry for the late answer.
Yes, that does work 😊 Way better than using PHP, thanks !
I see that it’s also indicated in the documentation now 😊
No worries, glad to hear it’s what you needed! Yep this prompted us to update the documentation, we didn’t realize it had been skipped over, so we appreciated you bringing it up!