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#1 2007-08-12 01:15:18
- BryanA.
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How does anyone show the current date?
<txp:time />
Neat, but useless on its own I think. I entered this in the Header Form on a whim when <txp:date /> gave me an error suggesting I was close. I don’t know what it is that came up, like a Stardate or something, but can it be handled in such a way as to show visitors the CURRENT DATE!
I hope the answer is somehow ‘yes, and without plugins.’ Got a killer looking date/time stamp on WebWriter3 and UXmag.com, and since I see it CAN happen, would now like to know how for my own txp installation.
I’m new, down with HTML and not so much CSS and .php so a little extra dumbing up on an answer would help greatly!
Voice Actor – starting up a site for that good book stuff.
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
I don’t pretend to understand any of this, but this is the code used in a TXP template that seems to work:
<txp:php>echo date(“F jS Y”, time() + tz_offset());</txp:php>
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<txp:php>echo date(‘g:i A’, time() + tz_offset());</txp:php>
Hope that helps!
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#3 2007-08-12 05:15:13
- BryanA.
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
Those letters are familiar to me for some other reading I’ve done (my understanding being weak as well) and I think that code works when a php sheet has been made to place the date and time in the MySQL databases. My txp reported back:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING
and
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘:’
No sweat though – do you have the name of the template that you used? It might include that php sheet… Thanks for the quick post!
Voice Actor – starting up a site for that good book stuff.
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
Sure: This one
Cheers
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
The code that Neil quotes does not require a separate “sheet”. It is placed in the sidebar form template where required. I use a very similar version in my header form templae at The Bomb Site. As far as I am aware it makes no entry in the database. It simply calls (via PHP) for the server date and time and then adds or subtracts any “offset” you may have specified.
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
Make sure you’re using the right quoting characters:
<txp:php>echo date('F jS Y', time() + tz_offset());</txp:php>
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<txp:php>echo date('g:i A', time() + tz_offset());</txp:php>Last edited by ruud (2007-08-12 09:51:36)
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#7 2007-08-12 13:21:36
- BryanA.
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
Changing this to [solved] – thanks to all of you! And how bizarre; the code triggered those errors the first time but works today in the sidebar and the header with the exact same code. Go figure.
Voice Actor – starting up a site for that good book stuff.
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
ruud wrote:
Make sure you’re using the right quoting characters:
Thanks Rudd. I should have checked for that after pasting the code… ;-)
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#9 2007-08-13 15:42:05
- BryanA.
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
Ohhh…. I see it. ‘/” difference.
Any chance that the month “F” can be called up as the three letter version instead of the whole name? FEB rather than FEBRUARY? I know of some site that goes through hoops to explain that formatting the php server time/date can be controlled with CONVERT functions like:
PRINT ’5) HERE IS DD MON YY FORMAT ==>’ +
CONVERT,GETDATE,6)
delivers “HERE IS DD MON YY FORMAT ==> 13 AUG 07” which is what I’m after if I’m allowed to be picky about the date’s display. :) But I don’t know how to apply CONVERTing within TXP. The very quirky work in progress is www.dinarius.com/commentable
Website discussing converting time/date display:
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/2197931
My limp efforts to style the date is a blatant borrow from uxmag.com at the moment.
Last edited by BryanA. (2007-08-13 15:46:29)
Voice Actor – starting up a site for that good book stuff.
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Re: How does anyone show the current date?
See the date PHP manual, which has details on all the formatting codes you can use.
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