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Sep 10, 2009, 9:24 AM

Andy

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Sep 10, 2009, 9:24 AM

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Hi,

This works:

Code:
<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%dd%-%mm%")%> 
<%set _today = GT::Date::date_get%> 
<%set tmp = "2009-07-10"%> 
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($tmp,$_today)%>

..so maybe try:

Code:
<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%dd%-%mm%")%> 
<%set _today = GT::Date::date_get%> 
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($Signup_Date,$_today)%>

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Sep 10, 2009, 9:35 AM

SWDevil.Com

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Sep 10, 2009, 9:35 AM

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Here is the input:

Code:
<%Signup_Date%> <br> 

<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%dd%-%mm%")%> 
<%set _today = GT::Date::date_get%> 
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($Signup_Date,$_today)%>

Here is the output:

Code:
2008-08-25 
0 Since Signup: 120

Now the funny thing is, if I manually change Signup_date to 2008-08-09 output changes to

Code:
2008-08-09 
0 Since Signup: -367

Vishal

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Sep 10, 2009, 9:37 AM

Andy

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Sep 10, 2009, 9:37 AM

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OOps, should be:

<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%")%>

Not %dd%-%mm% :P

Try that and let me know if it works.

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Andy (mod)
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Sep 10, 2009, 9:42 AM

SWDevil.Com

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Sep 10, 2009, 9:42 AM

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Re: [Andy] How to display days since add and last modified In reply to

Didn't worked.

Input

Code:
<%Signup_Date%> <br> 

<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%")%>  
<%set _today = GT::Date::date_get%> 
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($Signup_Date,$_today)%>

Output

Code:
2008-08-09 
0 Since Signup: -397

Sep 10, 2009, 9:48 AM

Andy

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Sep 10, 2009, 9:48 AM

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Try printing this:

Signup: <%Signup_Date%>
Today: <%_today%>

..and let me know the output

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Andy (mod)
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Sep 10, 2009, 10:17 AM

SWDevil.Com

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Sep 10, 2009, 10:17 AM

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Re: [Andy] How to display days since add and last modified In reply to

Here:

Input:

Code:
Signup: <%Signup_Date%> <br> 
Today: <%_today%>  <br>

Output

Code:
Signup: 2008-08-09 
Today: Unknown Tag: '_today'

Sep 10, 2009, 10:19 AM

Andy

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Sep 10, 2009, 10:19 AM

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Were you using that in conjunction with:

<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%")%>
<%set _today = GT::Date::date_get%>

(i.e the code above first, then that other code I gave you)

Simply using those 2 lines I gave you won't work, as _today isn't defined)

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Sep 10, 2009, 10:22 AM

SWDevil.Com

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Sep 10, 2009, 10:22 AM

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Re: [Andy] How to display days since add and last modified In reply to

Okay.. now I updated the code and here it is:

Input

Code:
<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%")%> 
<%set _today = GT::Date::date_get%>  

Signup: <%Signup_Date%> <br> 
Today: <%_today%>  <br>

Output

Code:
0 Signup: 2008-08-09 
Today: 2009-09-10

Sep 10, 2009, 10:24 AM

Andy

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Sep 10, 2009, 10:24 AM

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Is this on your dev server? If so, shoot me over the account you are testing it with - and I'll take a look. Can't be bothered to keep trying to debug it from the forum - much quicker just to do it myself ;)

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Sep 11, 2009, 6:34 AM

SWDevil.Com

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Sep 11, 2009, 6:34 AM

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Check your pm.

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Sep 11, 2009, 7:07 AM

Andy

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Sep 11, 2009, 7:07 AM

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Should work now:

Code:
<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%dd%-%mm%")%><br /> 
<%set _today = GT::Date::date_get()%><br /> 
TODAY: <%_today%> <br /> 
<%set tmp = $user.Signup_Date%><br /> 
Signup DAte: <%tmp%> <br /> 
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($tmp,$_today)%><br />

Cheers

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Sep 14, 2009, 11:59 PM

SWDevil.Com

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Sep 14, 2009, 11:59 PM

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Re: [Andy] How to display days since add and last modified In reply to

Sorry for the delayed reply, was out of town:

I just tried it again, however it does not seem to work.

Input

Code:
<%GT::Date::date_set_format("%yyyy%-%dd%-%mm%")%><br /> 
<%set _today = GT::Date::date_get()%><br /> 
TODAY: <%_today%> <br /> 
<%set tmp = $user.Signup_Date%><br /> 
Signup DAte: <%tmp%> <br /> 
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($tmp,$_today)%><br />

Output

Code:
0 

TODAY: 2009-15-09 

Signup DAte: 2008-08-09 
Since Signup: -372

Expected Output : Example

Code:
Since Signup: April 22, 2006 (3 years 4 months 18 days)

Sep 15, 2009, 12:10 AM

Andy

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Sep 15, 2009, 12:10 AM

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Erm, how can you be expecting it to say years, even when its only been just over a year? (372 days, from the 15th of sept 2009, to the 8th sept 2008)

The reason you are getting a negative , just change this:

Code:
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($tmp,$_today)%><br />

..to:

Code:
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($_today,$tmp)%><br />

The rest is just fine =)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 15, 2009, 3:15 PM

SWDevil.Com

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Sep 15, 2009, 3:15 PM

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Hey Andy,

This one worked :)

Code:
Since Signup: <%GT::Date::date_diff($_today,$tmp)%><br />

Andy wrote:

Erm, how can you be expecting it to say years, even when its only been just over a year? (372 days, from the 15th of sept 2009, to the 8th sept 2008)

I have not idea, on how that can be done, I was just hoping you would have some.

Here is a shot in the dark, do you think this is (or something like it) is possible:

Example:
Sign-up Date : April 8, 2008
Current Date : June 10, 2009

1. Since there is a different in year number (or more than 365 days, 366 for leap year), it can add 1 for year count there... if straight year number is used, than there would be no need to worry about leap year.
2. April 8, to May 7 = 1 month and till June 7 = 2 months.
3. June 7 to June 10 = 3 days.

So something like : Member Since: 1 Year 2 month & 3 days.

In addition, the output don't need to be in exact format.. Like (Date since last build global).. it can be output "signup_since_year", signup_since_month & "signup_since_days" separately. Which later can easily be used by admin within template.

Vishal

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Sep 15, 2009, 6:32 PM

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Sep 15, 2009, 6:32 PM

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Hi Andy,

Just realized that there is a much simpler solution (I think). How about using a simple age/birthdate counter type script. In addition, I did found a perfect script to generate the output.

So if we can simply break down Signup_Date (example 2009-09-15) like below it would solve the purpose, as simply inserting <%signup_year%>... etc can be inserted in javascript
signup_year = 2009
signup_month = 9
signup_day = 15

Here is how the code will work in javascript

Code:
  var amonth = 9 
  var aday = 15 
  var ayear = 2009

Sep 16, 2009, 12:01 AM

Andy

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Sep 16, 2009, 12:01 AM

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Just use:

split_date

Code:
sub { 
   my @tmp = split /-/, $_[0]; 
   return {  
     ayear => $tmp[0], 
     amonth =>   $tmp[1], 
     aday => $tmp[2] 
   } 
}

Then call with:

Code:
<%split_date($Signup_Date)%>

..and you should then have tags:

Code:
<%ayear%> 
<%amonth%> 
and  
<%ayear%>

Andy (mod)
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Sep 16, 2009, 10:27 PM

SWDevil.Com

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Sep 16, 2009, 10:27 PM

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It worked perfectly.. thanks :)

Vishal

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