Hi,

I have added a field in links where i put a date when the link expires. I need to be able to check whether the expiry date is older than todays date and then display it has expired. Not all fields have an entry..

I have tried

<%if Expires > ''%>
<%if Date > Expires%>
EXPIRED
<%endif%>
<%endif%>

But this does'nt work, does anyone have any ideas ?

Thanks,

Matt

First of all, you would need the Enhanced Template.pm codes to be able to this type of comparison.

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Thanks AnthroRules, but I already have this added. The bit that checks for '' works.
Its the date comparison i am totally stuck on. Such as Expires = 12-Jan-2000 , and todays date is obviously later, so it would put up text to note this.

Any more ideas ?

Thanks

Yea...Try adding these codes at the top of your sub html_site_link in the site_html_templates.pl file:


You may have to use my $expire = &days_old($rec{'Expires'});...but give it shot.

Then add the following codes after these codes:


Then define the $expiremessage variable as a tag in the sub site_html_link routine:


Then add the following tag in your link.html file:


Hope this works and help.

BTW: To make changes in your directory, you will need to re-build it to see the changes. Also make a backup of your site_html_templates.pl file before trying this.

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[This message has been edited by AnthroRules (edited February 26, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by AnthroRules (edited February 26, 2000).]

I don't think it works.
Links are displayed together on a page e.h. <%links%>. So this way you can only control a full page to be displayed or not.
If you want to control per link effect you need to change the codes in sub build_category_pages or sub site_html_link

Webmaster33

Thanks for your help on this.
When it created the pages, it did'nt seem to recognise the variable saying Unkown Tag: expire .
Do i have to set these up as global variables first ?
Maybe in the link.def or something ?

No, you define the tag in the sub that you have placed the codes (like site_html_link), like I instructed earlier.

Like the following:


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Cyclo;

I am working on something similar to what you were doing here in the Links 2.0 forum. I wanted to set up a start date and expire date. So links would only show if start date was <= today’s date and stop showing if end date was > today’s date. I would settle for just stop showing if end date was greater than today’s date. I was wondering if you got it to work and if you could let me know how to do it on my site. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,Jake