Get Number of Days Since Published

chrisandy · March 23, 2021, 11:30am

How can I display the number of days since a document was published, in a chunk used by getresources. i.e. ‘Posted 4 days ago’

halftrainedharry · March 23, 2021, 11:46am

There is an output filter ago that maybe does what you need.

[[+publishedon:ago]]

Otherwise you could write you own custom output modifier and maybe use some of the code of the ago modifier.

github.com

modxcms/revolution/blob/416da5a2b6cd7ff4c270ee2d5a34839057a41493/core/model/modx/filters/modoutputfilter.class.php#L467


            $output = $this->modx->lexicon('today_at',array('time' => strftime('%I:%M %p',$time)));
        } elseif ($time >= strtotime('yesterday')) {
            $output = $this->modx->lexicon('yesterday_at',array('time' => strftime('%I:%M %p',$time)));
        } else {
            $output = strftime($m_val, $time);
        }
    } else {
        $output = '&mdash;';
    }
    break;
case 'ago':
    /* calculates relative time ago from a timestamp */
    if (empty($output)) break;
    if (empty($this->modx->lexicon)) $this->modx->getService('lexicon','modLexicon');
    $this->modx->lexicon->load('filters');

    $agoTS = array();
    $uts['start'] = strtotime($output);
    $uts['end'] = time();
    if( $uts['start']!==-1 && $uts['end']!==-1 ) {
      if( $uts['end'] >= $uts['start'] ) {

chrisandy · March 23, 2021, 11:49am

The output filter is perfect thank you!

system · March 25, 2021, 11:49am

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