I searched every post in this site for "date" and read them all. Unless I missed something, I didnt find a single post that described how to get one of the MOST COMMON things people put onto a website -- todays date!!
All I found was a bunch of freakin javascripts to display the date -- hmmm -- I may have wrote one :)
Oh, before I did that, I spent over an hour hunting in the VTE for a string you could use in a template <vet:value select.... yada yada... nothing. If I missed it, PLEASE point me in the right direction.
Anywho --- for God's sake ladies, we are using PHP!! WTF are we doing using javascripts to display the date for when just ONE very SHORT line of code would do the trick???
I got fed up with this and remember hunting for the workaround a few years ago... the only answer? A long javascript. In my recent travels, this finally ticked me off so this is my workaround. IF YOU USE OTHER LANGUAGE BESIDES ENGLISH, OR YOU DONT USE ENGLISH AT ALL, THIS NEEDS TO BE IN WHATEVER LANGUAGE FILE(s) YOU DO USE. ALSO, YOU WILL HAVE TO R E M E M B E R to MAKE THE UPDATE FOR EVERY FREAKING TIME VIVVO HAS A NEW VERSION THAT UPDATES THE LANGUAGE FILE. HOW FREAKIN NICE.
Anyway, here it is. I am done shouting however it will be a while until I am not TICKED OFF >:|
There is probably a better way but this was the most common PHP file I could find to do this method:
1) Open /YOUR_VIVVO_DIR/lang/english.php and at the top below the notice you will see this:
define ('VIVVO_DB_COLLATION', 'utf8_unicode_ci');
define ('VIVVO_LANG_CODE' , 'en-US');
2) Add the line in red:
define ('VIVVO_DB_COLLATION', 'utf8_unicode_ci');
define ('VIVVO_LANG_CODE' , 'en-US');
define ('TODAYS_BLANKING_DATE', date('F j, Y'));
3) Wherever you want the date, use this this code. Wrap it in DIV tags or whatever suits your fancy. I put this example in the search.tpl:
<div id="date">
<vte:value select="{TODAYS_BLANKING_DATE}" />
</div>
Now go do some work. If you want to change the format it is very easy:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Enjoy :)
... hope i dont get banned.... I need some CRED people! lol
If there is a way to do this easily in VTE or any other method, I will belly crawl asking for mercy and I will never ever get angry about "TODAY" again :D
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