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date formatting for content blocks?

scottplan 05 Jun 2010 13:16

I have a live template that incorporates three dates as content blocks — startdate, enddate, and nextdate.

Startdate and enddate I've formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, and I pass these via url to a Pipe, which pulls feed items that occur between those two days.

So far, nextdate simply tells readers when to expect the next newsletter. From that standpoint, it could be any format — "June 9, 2010". But I could make it do more, so I'd like to format nextdate the same way, YYYY-MM-DD.

Is there some way to accept YYYY-MM-DD in a content block and to reformat it as %%content{n}|%A, %B %e%%?

Re: date formatting for content blocks?

leiger 05 Jun 2010 15:40

It's impossible with a Wikidot-based solution. No idea about external solutions… someone else might have something in mind that could help.

There's a thread in the designs section that I'm thinking of but I can't quite find it with only a quick look… might have another look later.

There was a design spec about modifying things like this. For example (just making most of these up, though upper/lower case were definitely on the thread I'm thinking about):

%%variable|to_uppercase%%
%%variable|to_lowercase%%
%%variable|to_link_format%%
%%variable|custom_date_format%%

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Re: date formatting for content blocks?

Steven Heynderickx 06 Jun 2010 10:28

could you link to this template you've got somewhere? Do you remember the email-field solution I made… Maybe a solution for this problem can be found in the same way of working, but I would like to see the context in wich you are using this.

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Re: date formatting for content blocks?

scottplan 11 Jun 2010 14:43

Steven — same context we've discussed elsewhere: our newsletter.

Here's an example of the application

We'll post it on %%content{7}%%

The YYYY-MM-DD format could be useful in calling feed items, but I'd like to be able to reformat it to Day, Month Date.

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