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msv_if_custom_article_date
Usage
Using this conditional tag you can compare a date specified in an article custom field with a date specified in the tag or with ‘today’.
This way you can eg. control the visibility of an article or its part according to dates.
Classification
The msv_if_custom_article_date tag is a Conditional Tag, and therefore a Container Tag, The tag will execute the contained statement if a date set in a specified custom field is greater/less/greaterequal/lessequal/equal/notequal compared to a date set in the tag.
Syntax
The tag has the following syntactic structure:
<txp:msv_if_custom_article_date>
...your content here...
</txp:msv_if_custom_article_date>Attributes
- is=“greater/less/greaterequal/lessequal/equal/notequal” (default ‘equal’)
- date=“date in format dd.mm.yyyy” (default is today)
- customfield=“number of a custom field with a date associated to article” (default ‘1’)
- dateseparator=“a character that separates day, month and year in a date string” (default ‘.’)
Other notes
- In case the specified custom field is empty, the contained statement will be executed.
- Date in a custom field should be in format dd.mm.yyyy
Examples
*Classical ‘publish until date’ condition.*
The article will be published until date specified in the custom field number 4 (date in format ‘dd.mm.yyyy’).
<txp:msv_if_custom_article_date is="greaterequal" customfield="4">
...ArticleContent...
</txp:msv_if_custom_article_date>*More complicated example*
The Content will be published if date specified in the custom field number 1 (date in format ‘dd-mm-yyyy’) is less than 11th November 2006 (date in format ‘dd-mm-yyyy’).
<txp:msv_if_custom_article_date is="less" customfield="1"
dateseparator="-" date="11-11-2006">
...Content...
</txp:msv_if_custom_article_date>