Re: Check against current date (day)

Naphta wrote:
> I'm using the top items block to display some article titles.
> 
> In the corresponding pubtype I use the 'notes' field to let users add a 
> date stamp via the dd calendar property.
> 
> Now I'm running into problems since in the top items block I want to 
> show only articles where the date provided via the calendar property 
> 'notes' is equal to the current *day*.
> 
> I know that the following snippet won't work (because of the unix time 
> stamps including seconds) - not sure if this is possible at all, but I 
> really would appreciate any help formating the date.
> 
> <xar:if condition="!empty($items)">
> <ul>
> <xar:foreach in="$items" value="$item">
> <xar:set name="time">time</xar:set>
> <xar:set 
> name="articleCall">xarModAPIFunc('articles','user','get',array('aid' => 
> $item['aid']))</xar:set>
> <xar:if condition="$articleCall['notes'] eq $time">
> <li>
> <a href="#$item['link']#">#$item['title']#</a>
> </li>
> </xar:if>
> </xar:foreach>
> </ul>
> </xar:if>
> 
> 
> Karsten
You could try using the php date() function to turn the timestamps into 
a string like 2006-10-05 and then compare.

Marc