FW: ANother SHOWIF problem
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Let's try this one last time - the snippet I posted yesterday was also wrong (one of these days I'll learn to cut and paste). [math] should be outside the curly braces, like so:[SHOWIF [MATH]{[DATE]}[/MATH]<[MATH]{[MTH]/[DAY]/[YR]}[/MATH]]
On sale [MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/SHOWIF]This converts the dates to a number of days and compares them, which should always work correctly.cheers,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/_______________________________________________________________________________ Michael (and others who were following this) -You've probably already caught this, but Grant corrected me on the WebDNA I sent - it should have been:[SHOWIF {[MATH][DATE][/MATH]}<{[MATH][MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/MATH]}]
On sale [MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/SHOWIF](the [math] context around it IS important).cheers,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/ _______________________________________________________________________________ Michael ->In my database, I have divided the on sale date of an item into month >(1-12), day (1-31), and year (01-99) fields (for a number of reasons). >If the current date is before the on sale date, I'd like to display some >info (so anything past September 16th will display the on sale date). >For some reason, the following code (which is inside a [SEARCH] context) >*always* displays the on sale date. >[SHOWIF [MATH][DATE][/MATH]<[MATH]{[MTH]/[DAY]/[YR]}[/MATH]]
On sale >[MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/SHOWIF] >My date pref is set to %m/%d/%Y >I've tried it with WebCat 2.0 and 2.01. >The clock on the web server is correct.Try this instead:[SHOWIF {[DATE]}<{[MTH]/[DAY]/[YR]}]
On sale [MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/SHOWIF]It appears to work for me.Hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/
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Let's try this one last time - the snippet I posted yesterday was also wrong (one of these days I'll learn to cut and paste).
[math] should be outside the curly braces, like so:[SHOWIF
[math]{
[date]}[/MATH]<
[math]{[MTH]/[DAY]/[YR]}[/MATH]]
On sale [MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/SHOWIF]This converts the dates to a number of days and compares them, which should always work correctly.cheers,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/_______________________________________________________________________________ Michael (and others who were following this) -You've probably already caught this, but Grant corrected me on the WebDNA I sent - it should have been:[SHOWIF {
[math][date][/MATH]}<{
[math][MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/MATH]}]
On sale [MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/SHOWIF](the
[math] context around it IS important).cheers,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/ _______________________________________________________________________________ Michael ->In my database, I have divided the on sale date of an item into month >(1-12), day (1-31), and year (01-99) fields (for a number of reasons). >If the current date is before the on sale date, I'd like to display some >info (so anything past September 16th will display the on sale date). >For some reason, the following code (which is inside a
[search] context) >*always* displays the on sale date. >[SHOWIF
[math][date][/MATH]<
[math]{[MTH]/[DAY]/[YR]}[/MATH]]
On sale >[MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/SHOWIF] >My date pref is set to %m/%d/%Y >I've tried it with WebCat 2.0 and 2.01. >The clock on the web server is correct.Try this instead:[SHOWIF {
[date]}<{[MTH]/[DAY]/[YR]}]
On sale [MTH]/[DAY]/[YR][/SHOWIF]It appears to work for me.Hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/
Marc Eagle
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