Re: How to just show the Year

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 6:58:34 PM, Steven Scott wrote:

> Error Message:
>
> Expected method. date?string evaluated instead to
> freemarker.template.SimpleScalar on line 8, column 16 in
> Templates/Scripting/EmptyPHP.php. 

The problem is most certainly that that the value of the "date"
variable is not a java.util.Date (or a TemplateDateModel), but a
string. That's the mistake of NetBeans... they should use a
java.util.Date for a date, not a java.lang.String. Anyway, since it's
a string, you can get a sub-string of it to extract the year, like
${date[0..3]}. (Or, you can cast it to date and then back to string
with ${date?date('someFormatPattern')?string('yyyy')} where
someFormatPattern is whatever format NetBean uses for that variable.)

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 6:23:17 PM, Steven Scott wrote:
>
>> I am trying to create a PHP template in NetBeans 6.9.1, and I want
>> to include a Copyright: 2010 (or the current year).  I have the
>> ${date} but I can not get just the year.  This is what I have:
>>
>> Copyright ${date?string("yyyy")}
>>
>> I have also tried the
>>
>> <#setting short="yyyy">
>> Copyright ${date?string.short}
>>
>> without any luck as well.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> What's the error message? This should work as far as NetBeans put a
> variable called "date" into the data-model (with other words, into the
> template context) which is a java.util.Date.
>
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