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Outputting current date
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phiw13 wrote #336011:
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I was surprised that the PHP prefs, and particularly in articles, was turned ON by default. Luckily lower-level users/authors can’t include anything PHP in articles.
Flipping the pref(disabled by default) is perfectly fine, even expected :-).
My use of PHP in pages/forms is very limited nowadays – one stood out when checking on a live site: a snippet for the email body of contact forms (com_connect plugin, fetching the value of a select widgets for output in the email, as documented by the plugin). Or another one, the current year, for a website-wide copyright. Something you cannot fetch with TXP tags.
<p>©2004-<txp:php> echo gmdate('Y'); </txp:php> - me </p>...
phiw13 wrote #336011:
the current year, for a website-wide copyright. Something you cannot fetch with TXP tags.
I believe Oleg tweaked the <txp:posted /> tag (might be 4.9 but I think it made it into 4.8 – memory is hazy here) so you could specify an arbitrary date. Whether it allows you to do “this year” I’m not sure. If not, it would be a handy addition as I always resort to PHP for this.
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Perfect. I seemed to remember you posting examples like this before but couldn’t find them.
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Easy:
<txp:posted gmt time="now" format="%Y" />.
Ooh. Another PHP snipped out not really. Thank you.
–^–^–
Edit I take that (partly) back. I really should test in the context I actually use it…
The quoted txp:posted tag works fine on an individual article page, but not on list pages.
Tag error: <txp:posted gmt time="now" format="%Y" /> -> Textpattern Notice: Article tags cannot be used outside an article context.a <txp:date /> tag?
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I think this was the (a?) previous discussion Bloke mentions above.
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etc wrote #336016:
Easy:
<txp:posted gmt time="now" format="%Y" />.
just to confirm. this doesn’t yet work on 4.8.8 as I just tried it and no DATE was output.
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Would be interesting to understand how often and under what circumstances PHP code is in use in the content of a) articles and b) pages.
I am rather ashamed to keep PHP enabled in forms for just one small reason — I do not know how to display an URL of the requested web page in a simpler way than
$urn = urldecode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$urh = "{$_SERVER['HTTP_SCHEME']}://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}";
$url = "{$_SERVER['HTTP_SCHEME']}://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}";
$escaped_url = htmlspecialchars( $url, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8' );
echo '<a rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" style="text-decoration:none" href="' . $escaped_url . '">' . $urh . $urn . '</a>';I have applied it for 404 response only.
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I think that <txp:page_url type="request_uri" /> will help you there. In your example, it would output /nowhere.
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Bloke wrote #336015:
I believe Oleg tweaked the
<txp:posted />tag (might be 4.9 but I think it made it into 4.8 – memory is hazy here) so you could specify an arbitrary date. Whether it allows you to do “this year” I’m not sure. If not, it would be a handy addition as I always resort to PHP for this.
phiw13 wrote #336030:
Ooh.
Another PHP snipped outnot really. Thank you.–^–^–
Edit I take that (partly) back. I really should test in the context I actually use it…
The quoted
txp:postedtag works fine on an individual article page, but not on list pages.
Tag error: <txp:posted gmt time="now" format="%Y" /> -> Textpattern Notice: Article tags cannot be used outside an article context....a
<txp:date />tag?–^–^–
I think this was the (a?) previous discussion Bloke mentions above.
Just rooted around to find this post, and tried it out – but as Philippe says, I had no luck getting output in a non-article situation. It’s not a big deal to use <txp:evaluate query="date('Y')" /> as long as one remembers to enable date for txp:evaluate in the advanced settings, but it would be neat to be able to easily output/format arbitrary dates, especially with international output.
Another thing I often farm out to txp:php blocks or shortcodes is formatting from-to date(/time) ranges for event lists. That would be handy in a function. Perhaps this is more plugin territory?
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I’ve just added <txp:date /> tag to dev, please test and suggest feature ideas. Currently it works e.g. like this:
<txp:date gmt time="now" lang="de" calendar="hebrew" format="%Y %b" />You can also set type attribute to retrieve any txp date field:
<txp:date type="file" time="created" />but this will only work in file context. Old date-related tags work like before.
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That. Is. Amazing.
Another chunk of PHP eradicated from my templates. Thank you.
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