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Can you comparing a date inside a repeater?

I've got a repeater listing some course dates and want to hide a button the date is today or older...

In the page I've got...

PerchSystem::set_var('today', date('Y-m-d'));
perch_content_custom('Courses', [
    'template'=>'courses_detail.html'
]);

Which brings in today into the template. checked.

And the template repeater is using (with some test fields)...

<perch:repeater id="dates" label="Courses List" scope-parent="true">
    <perch:before>
    <h2>Course Dates:</h2>
    <ul class="timetable"></perch:before>
        <li class="timetableitem">
            <perch:content id="parent.today" type="date" /> | 
            <span class="venue"><perch:content id="venue" type="text" label="Venue Name" size="l" help="Add the school name" /></span> | 
            <span class="location"><perch:content id="location" type="date" label="Venue Location" type="text" size="m" help="Add location e.g. Ilkley" /></span> | 
            <span class="date"><perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Course Date" format="%a %e %b %g" /></span> | 
            <perch:if not-exists="cost">
            <span class="cost"><perch:content id="parent.cost" type="text" label="Course Price" size="s" help="Add the cost of this course in pounds" format="#:2" /></span>
            <perch:else />
            <span class="cost"><perch:content id="cost" type="text" label="Custom Price" size="s" help="Override the custom price set earlier - numerals only!" format="#:2" /></span>
             | <perch:if id="date" match="gte" value="{today}" format="%a %e %b %g" > ... remove button ... </perch:if>
            </perch:if>
        </li>
    <perch:after></ul></perch:after>
</perch:repeater>

Thing is I've tied a few different ways like to test <perch:if id="date" match="neq" value="{today}" format="%a %e %b %g" > ... remove button ... </perch:if> and this should trigger ... remove button ... if all dates are neq but it only appears on the first repeat and not the second.

So I'm thinking before I go further, is this even possible in a repeater?

David Owen 0 points

3 years ago

David Owen 0 points

3 years ago

...just to add... date comparing outside of the repeater works OK.

David Owen 0 points

3 years ago

... scrub this. Think I've found the problem. A line is incorrectly in a <perch:if> ... checking...

David Owen 0 points

3 years ago

Mmm... fixed the repeating perch:if but I still cannot detect today's date inside the repeater to check against.

<perch:repeater id="dates" label="Courses List" scope-parent="true">
    <perch:before>
    <h2>Course Dates:</h2>
    <ul class="timetable"></perch:before>
        <li class="timetableitem">
            <perch:content id="parent.today" type="date" format="%a %e %b %g" /> | 
            <span class="venue"><perch:content id="venue" type="text" label="Venue Name" size="l" help="Add the school name" /></span> | 
            <span class="location"><perch:content id="location" type="date" label="Venue Location" type="text" size="m" help="Add location e.g. Ilkley" /></span> | 
            <span class="date"><perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Course Date" format="%a %e %b %g" /></span> | 
            <perch:if not-exists="cost">
            <span class="cost"><perch:content id="parent.cost" type="text" label="Course Price" size="s" help="Add the cost of this course in pounds" format="#:2" /></span>
            <perch:else />
            <span class="cost"><perch:content id="cost" type="text" label="Custom Price" size="s" help="Override the custom price set earlier - numerals only!" format="#:2" /></span>
            </perch:if>
            | <perch:if id="parent.today" match="gte" value="{today}" format="%a %e %b %g" > ... show button ... </perch:if>
        </li>
    <perch:after></ul></perch:after>
</perch:repeater>

Any pointers to where I'm going wrong?

I can get today's date inside using <perch:content id="parent.today" type="date" format="%a %e %b %g" /> But that does not work

How do I get value="{today}" inside a repeater to check against?

David Owen 0 points

3 years ago

...look like the issue was format="%a %e %b %g". And by using simply <perch:if id="date" match="gte" value="{today}" > is working. Looks like I was overthinking the problem.