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[SOLVED] Publishing date in item and category listings

Eero
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4 years 2 days ago - 4 years 2 days ago #143252 by Eero

Eero created the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

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

Last edit: 4 years 2 days ago by Eero. Reason: Forgot to mention K2 and J! version

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4 years 2 days ago #143255 by Krikor Boghossian

Krikor Boghossian replied the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

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.

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4 years 2 days ago - 4 years 2 days ago #143260 by Eero

Eero replied the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

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

Eero

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4 years 2 days ago #143261 by Krikor Boghossian

Krikor Boghossian replied the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

You 're welcome Eero :)

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6 months 2 weeks ago - 6 months 2 weeks ago #169537 by Odin Mayland

Odin Mayland replied the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

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')); ?>

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6 months 2 weeks ago - 6 months 2 weeks ago #169541 by Fotis

Fotis replied the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

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.

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6 months 2 weeks ago #169563 by Odin Mayland

Odin Mayland replied the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

That worked great!

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

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6 months 2 weeks ago #169565 by Fotis

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

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6 months 2 weeks ago - 6 months 2 weeks ago #169569 by Odin Mayland

Odin Mayland replied the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

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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6 months 2 weeks ago #169570 by Fotis

Fotis replied the topic: Publishing date in item and category listings

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'));
}
?>

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