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December 31, 2007 10:27am
Subscribe [3]#1 / Dec 31, 2007 10:27am
Happy New Years Eve…
I have what’s probably a simple question but I can’t seem to remember how to do this.
Basically my URL string looks like….
http://www.domain.com/events/2008/10/23/
But in the body of the page, I want to take that URL segments and convert it to:
October 23rd
Help…?
#2 / Dec 31, 2007 1:03pm
Okay…. I’ve been playing around with this and some PHP code and I can’t get it to work properly - I’m using it with Mr. Wilson’s Repeet Calendar plugin. Basically I need a way to display a page header, so its outside of the Repeet code unless there is another way to handle this.
#3 / Dec 31, 2007 3:42pm
Perhaps something like this:
{if segment_3 == "1"}
Jan.
{/if}
{if segment_3 == "2"}
Feb.
{/if}
{if segment_3 == "3"}
Mar.
{/if}#4 / Dec 31, 2007 4:13pm
Hi bjsteiger,
There are a bunch of ways to do it. One approach, using PHP (parsed on output):
<?php
//
// Format a date based on values taken from the URL
//
// Fetch the year and ensure it's legit
$year = '{segment_2}';
if (!is_numeric($year) || $year < 1900 || $year > 2100)
{
$year = date('Y');
// If the year isn't legit, we assume the month and day aren't legit either
$month = 1;
$day = 1;
}
else
{
// Fetch the month and ensure it's legit
$month = '{segment_3}';
if (!is_numeric($month) || $month < 1 || $month > 12)
{
$month = date('m');
// If the month isn't legit, we assume the day isn't legit either
$day = 1;
}
else
{
// Fetch the day and ensure it's legit
$day = ' {segment_4}';
$days_in_month = date('t', mktime(12, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year));
if (!is_numeric($day) || $day < 1 || $day > $days_in_month)
{
$day = 1;
}
}
}
// Output something like 'October 23rd'
echo date('F jS', mktime(12, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year));
?>#5 / Jan 02, 2008 12:02pm
Mr. Wilson…
Thanks for this - I was actually on this same path but I didn’t include the test and my “mktime” kept bombing out because some pages don’t include a date (which is okay).
Thank you again,
bjs