[SOLVED] Publishing date in item and category listings

Eero 11 years 6 months ago #143252

Hello,

From the K2 categories I can select "Item created date and time" and "Item modified date and time", and if set to "show", these will be visible in the category and item views. All good.

But what if I want to display the date when the item is published? For example, if I have a blog or news list in the main k2 container, and there are blog posts showing the dates when they were created, but I want to list the publishing dates instead?

Is there an alternative script I could use in the custom K2 template to replace the "JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created" string? I tried "item->published" but it resulted the date showing 1.1.1970.

This is irritating, especially as I want to write many articles in advance and then set them to be automatically published on later dates. I am also using Latest News Enhanced module to show news feed / latest blog posts on the side of the page, and it shows K2 published dates well.

Eero

Ps. K2 version 2.6.8 and Joomla 3.3.6

Edited 11 years 6 months ago by Eero · Reason: Forgot to mention K2 and J! version

Krikor Boghossian 11 years 6 months ago #143255

You should update to 2.6.9

Also publish_up should be used instead of published. Published is a boolean and it will not return a date.

Eero Topic Author 11 years 6 months ago #143260

Thank you very much Krikor! That solved it! :)

Eero

Edited 11 years 6 months ago by Eero

Krikor Boghossian 11 years 6 months ago #143261

You 're welcome Eero :)

Odin Mayland 8 years 1 month ago #169537

Krikor,

I too want to display the published date. Can you help me edit this so it works?

				<?php echo JText::_(Published on); ?> <?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->publish_up, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?>

Edited 8 years 1 month ago by Odin Mayland

JoomlaWorks Admin 8 years 1 month ago #169541

In the item view (and override item.php) swap this:

<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?>

with this:

<?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->publish_up, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2')); ?>

The available dates you have in the item object are: "created", "modified", "publish_up" & "publish_down".

Keep in mind that in modules it'll probably be $item->publish_up instead of $this->item->publish_up.

Edited 8 years 1 month ago by JoomlaWorks

Odin Mayland 8 years 1 month ago #169563

That worked great!

Now is there any way to not display the modified date if its the same as the published date?

JoomlaWorks Admin 8 years 1 month ago #169565

<?php 
if ($this->item->modified != $this->item->publish_up) {
    echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->modified, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2'));
}
?>

Odin Mayland 8 years 1 month ago #169569

Wow, you're amazing!

Last thing.... :-) .... The modified date is still showing so maybe I need to know how you get the date to not use the time to be used in the if comparison?

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Edited 8 years 1 month ago by Odin Mayland

JoomlaWorks Admin 8 years 1 month ago #169570

Format the dates down to day-level and compare:

<?php
$datePublished = JHTML::_('date', $this->item->publish_up, '%Y%m%d');
$dateModified = JHTML::_('date', $this->item->modified, '%Y%m%d');
if ($dateModified != $datePublished) {
    echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->modified, JText::_('K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC2'));
}
?>

Odin Mayland 8 years 1 month ago #169579

AMAZING SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JoomlaWorks Admin 8 years 1 month ago #169581

You're welcome.

I'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to add your review (and rating) for K2 at the Joomla Extensions Directory: extensions.joomla.org/extension/k2/

Odin Mayland 8 years 1 month ago #169601

absolutely!

JoomlaWorks Admin 8 years 1 month ago #169656

Thank you.

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[SOLVED] Publishing date in item and category listings