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Get the time a content item was created and updated
Is it possible to get the time a content item was last created and updated? I've looked at what's kept in Perch's database and what comes out when using perch_custom_content(), but I can't seem to find this information anywhere.
The reason I ask is because I'm automatically generating PDFs of webpages that are built using Perch, but I only want to generate the files if the record was updated after the most recent file was generated.
Some way to hook into Perch at certain events (before/after saving) would be the ideal solution, but this doesn't appear to be possible.
You can get the time the page was modified as a whole. Does that help?
https://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/navigation/perch-page-modified/
It doesn't look like this will work for what I'm doing as there's no way to specify — at least from what I can see — the page you want the modified timestamp of.
It's the current page, so you could switch pages using
PerchSystem::set_page()https://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/developers/working-with-front-controllers/
Ahh, I'd totally forgotten about that, thanks. I don't think this will work for my purposes though, as I need to know specifically when an individual content item was last changed, not the page as whole.
I think I'll have to make my own Perch field type to capture this information instead.