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Chris Lawson
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6 years 6 months ago #164393 by Chris Lawson

Add a default date for 'Finish publishing' was created by Chris Lawson

I have a website that has a lot of zombie content.

I have asked my users to set a 'Finish publishing' date themselves, but they just don't.

I would like to change the K2 Item default value for "Finish publishing' to now + 2 years or something similar so that by default, new items have a content lifespan of some sort.

Can I override the template for the new item form? Or is there some other way I can accomplish this?

cmkl

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6 years 6 months ago - 6 years 6 months ago #164396 by william white

Replied by william white on topic Add a default date for 'Finish publishing'

I would start by overiding itemform and testing it with a change to "prove it"
investigate stackoverflow.com/questions/18269556/php-date-add-1-year-to-current-date
manipulate the code in the override

												<?php echo JText::_('K2_FINISH_PUBLISHING'); ?>
											</td>
											<td class="k2ItemFormDateField">
												<?php echo $this->lists['publish_down']; ?>
											</td>

and test to see what you can get it to do for you
This may not be the correct place but mabee a starting point
You may have to go into the class k2ItemFormDateField to change it

Last edit: 6 years 6 months ago by william white.

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6 years 6 months ago #164403 by Chris Lawson

Replied by Chris Lawson on topic Add a default date for 'Finish publishing'

I wrote a (really bad) little routine that checks to see if

$this->lists['publish_down']

is set and, if it isn't to generate a date two years from now and write it into the value of the form.

<?php
 $twoyearsout = date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s", mktime()) . " + 2 year"));
    if (isset($this->lists['publish_down'])) {
	 $content_sunset = $this->lists['publish_down'];
    } else {
        $content_sunset = $twoyearsout;
     }
       ?>							
<input type="text" data-k2-datetimepicker id="publish_down" name="publish_down" value="<?php echo $content_sunset; ?>" autocomplete="off" />

But even if a K2 Item's "Finish publishing" date is blank, the array value "publish_down" is set. I can't see what the variable holds. When I view the rendered source of the form, the value for the "publish_down" element is blank.

What am I missing?

cmkl

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Krikor Boghossian
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6 years 6 months ago #164404 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Add a default date for 'Finish publishing'

What does <?php var_dump($content_sunset) ?> produce?

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6 years 6 months ago #164405 by Chris Lawson

Replied by Chris Lawson on topic Add a default date for 'Finish publishing'

For an item that has no Finish publishing date it shows:

string(0) ""

For an item with a Finish publishing date it shows:

string(19) "2017-10-31 12:00:00"

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6 years 6 months ago #164407 by Chris Lawson

Replied by Chris Lawson on topic Add a default date for 'Finish publishing'

So it's the isset vs !empty thing.

If instead of using isset, I use:

if (!empty($this->lists['publish_down'])) {
		 $content_sunset = $this->lists['publish_down'];
		// echo $this->lists['publish_down'];
	 } else {
		 $content_sunset = $twoyearsout;
         }

...it works as expected -- existing publish_down dates are retained. Blank ones have a 'default' added that's two years from today.

This is why I call myself a site builder, not a programmer.

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6 years 6 months ago #164423 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Add a default date for 'Finish publishing'

isset($this->lists) will not work, it is best to check !empty() or $this->lists !== '' as you have already done :)

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