Dates

[SurferJon]

Is there a way for a template to accept a date variable like "12-31-17" and change it into "Sunday, December 31st, 2017" for the template's output? Like one of those PHP time variables?

Then, is there a way to get a template to only display a certain link if the above date variable is within 5 days of the current date or after that date? (As in, only display the link if it's 5 days until that date through any time after that date. Like, display a link from 12-26-17 through the year 2200 and any time after.) I found the "CURRENTDAY" variable on this page, but I'm not sure how I could compare it to a variable date to get something to show: https://www.vaultwiki.org/pages/Help...ariable-Syntax

Thank you!

[pegasus]

There is not currently a way to automatically formatted dates.

It is possible to compare dates, but it is messy:

[if="[var]CURRENTYEAR[/var] == 2017"]
[if="[var]CURRENTMONTH[/var] == 12"]
[if="[var]CURRENTDAY[/var] > 25"]

[comment] code for active time this year[/comment]

[else /]

[comment] code for earlier this year (12/1 - 12/25)[/comment]

[/if]
[else /]

[comment] code for earlier this year (1/1 - 11/30)[/comment]

[/if]
[else /]
[if="[var]CURRENTYEAR[/var] > 2017"]
[if="[var]CURRENTYEAR[/var] < 2201"]

[comment] code for future years[/comment]

[else /]

[comment] code for expired years[/comment]

[/if]
[else /]

[comment] code for previous years (0 - 2016)[/comment]

[/if][/if]

As you can see, you would wind up with duplicate code because of spanning partial years (you could work around it by using templates). If we were to add a [var]set/get[/var] for custom variables (i.e. an implementation of "local" templates) it would improve this, as the templates may have no purpose outside of this context.

[SurferJon]

Hm, not sure I'm approaching this right.

Basically I will have a list of products across many pages, each with their own release date. When each product is released, I want there to be an Amazon link that links to an Amazon search with the product's name.

Problem is most products are announced months in advanced, so to always have a link to Amazon won't be useful to visitors. So what I'm trying to do is set the template to start displaying the link a few days before the product's release. Otherwise I'd have to manually edit in the links for each product across each page.

I tried your code (thank you so much for putting that together), but it wasn't working for me. I made it into a template and then set the date with variables on a page. However, the only thing that ever shows is " code for expired years "

[if="[var]CURRENTYEAR[/var] == {{{year}}}"]
[if="[var]CURRENTMONTH[/var] == {{{month}}}"]
[if="[var]CURRENTDAY[/var] > {{{day}}}"]

code for active time this year

[else /]

code for earlier this year (12/1 - 12/25)

[/if]
[else /]

code for earlier this year (1/1 - 11/30)

[/if]
[else /]
[if="[var]CURRENTYEAR[/var] > {{{year}}}"]
[if="[var]CURRENTYEAR[/var] < 2201"]

code for future years

[else /]

code for expired years

[/if]
[else /]

code for previous years (0 - 2016)

[/if][/if]

I'm not smart enough to understand what this means, haha:

If we were to add a [var]set/get[/var] for custom variables (i.e. an implementation of "local" templates) it would improve this, as the templates may have no purpose outside of this context.