How to include date and time?

Ruby Apps Radiant CMS
1

Hello list,

with the radius tag <r:rfc1123_date /> i can include the date and time
in my pages. However, which way can i modify the output of that radius
tag?
Or: Is it possible to include pure Ruby code in the page and layout
definitions and then style that for an adapted date and time version?

Best regards,
Andreas S.

2

Hi Andreas,

That’s trivial. Refer to line 315 of page_context.rb file. Just for
reference this is what it says:
215 # <r:date [format=“format_string”] />
316 #
317 # Renders the date that a page was published (or in the event
that it has
318 # not ben modified yet, the date that it was created). The
format attribute
319 # uses the same formating codes used by the Ruby +strftime+
function. By
320 # default it’s set to ‘%A, %B %d, %Y’.
321 #
322 define_tag ‘date’ do |tag|
323 page = tag.locals.page
324 format = tag_time_format(tag)
325 if date = page.published_at || page.created_at
326 date.strftime(format)
327 end
328 end

3

Hi Ruben,

thanks for your explenations. However <r:date> is bound to the page
object, isn’t it?
What if i just want to include the actual date and time somewhere on
my pages?

Greetings,
Andreas S.

4

Hi Ruben,

thanks for your quick answer!
Do you know where i can find some documentation (or something like that)
to learn how to create a new radius tag?

Greetings,
Andreas S.

Ruben D. Orduz schrieb:

5

Slighty outdated behaviors way: <http://radiantcms.org/blog/
2006/09/14/how-to-create-global-tags-in-a-plugin/>

Mental branch, extensions-friendly “Hello World!” tag as an example:
<http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/branches/mental/extensions/
examples/hello_tag?rev=195>

-jamie

6

Hi Andreas,

I believe so. If you want to have a context-insensitive date, you could
either modify the date tag or simply write a new one. In either case, it
should be fairly straight forward.

Peace.

7

@Jamie,
@Ruben,

Thanks!
It was a good decision to choose Radiant …
not only because of the elegance of the underlying technology,
also due to the great community!

Best regards,
Andreas S.

Jamie W. schrieb: