Re: Adding stronger support for dates as built ins for "?today and ?yesterday

Actually, ?is_today and ?is_yesterday would be better names ;)

Ken


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Ken Egervari <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, I have a feature request.
>
> Today, I wrote a macro for formatting the date to be fairly pretty to look
> at. It separates the date and time into different styles, and if the date is
> today or yesterday, it says the actual word rather than the date. This is
> all very common type of stuff we do these days:
>
> <#macro formatDate date showTime=true>
>     <#if date??>
>         <span class="Date">
>             <#if date?date?string.short == today?date?string.short>
>                 Today
>             <#elseif date?date?string.short == yesterday?date?string.short>
>                 Yesterday
>             <#else>
>                 ${date?date}
>             </#if>
>         </span>
>         <#if showTime>
>             <span class="Time">${date?time}</span>
>         </#if>
>     </#if>
> </#macro>
>
> The only problem with this implementation is that "today" and "yesterday"
> need to be in the model. This is kind of a hassle to put these 2 objects in
> the model in every spot where they are used. Sure, they could be added in a
> base class controller and added to every page... but that's also kind of a
> waste too.
>
> It would be nice if freemarker added ?today and ?yesterday to return
> true/false when you use them with dates.
>
> Another issue was that I needed to use ?date?string.short 4 times in the
> above code because ?date didn't properly return true when they were both
> equal. They returned false :(
>
> I think people would use these built-ins if you provided them, and they
> would really clean up the model.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> Ken
>

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