autoPublish Date feature

Hi Dawna,

First thing to check is to make sure that the fields are named exactly right as they are case-sensitive (ie, publishDate). After that, the publishDate will only work if a value has been set, if it's blank, it will publish. Try setting the date to a day or so in the future and see if that works.

If your still experiencing a problem, please attach the .php file that you're working with so I can take a closer look.

Hope this helps.

Once I add the publishDate and revmoveDate fields in the section editor do I need to add code to the .php template page for it to work? Are there any other fields that would would conflict with these newly created ones?

Hi,

There shouldn't be any conflicts that would give you the results you're describing (ie, the page publishing regardless of the date).

You shouldn't need any special code either so long as your using the getRecords function. When I go to your site, I'm assuming that the post I'm seeing is the post you're trying to hide with publishDate. Is that correct? What is the publishDate value for that record?

It is important to note that publishDate uses your server's date/time, not your local computer's time. So if the date/time of your server is ahead or behind your own time, you may be seeing a difference in when things are publishing. A good check to see if things are working is to give the record a publishDate that is several days in the future to see if it still appears.

Let me know and please attach your .php file so I can take a look at the code

Hope this helps.

I checked the server/date and time and in the CMS general settings it shows the correct local time.

Maybe I'm not using the get Records function?

I have two pages for the blog...a details page and a list page.

What I've done to test whether or not it's working is I've added a record titled "test". It publishes even if I put it out 3 days in the future. I've deleted the test record when it posts since the site is live.

I know there's something simple here that I'm missing. I've used these special records fields before and they've always worked like a charm.

Hi,

Your code looks correct. If you could email your CMS login and FTP details to jason@interactivetools.com I can take a look at the back end and see what is going on.

Please only email this information, don't post it to the forum.

Thanks.

I sent the e-mail with that info. Did you get it?

Hi Dawna,

This was an interesting one. Everything in the CMS was set up correctly.

What was happening is that at the top of your pages, the code to include the viewer_functions.php file was searching in D:/(virtual_drives). Although it was finding a file, it wasn't finding the file we were expecting. I'm not exactly sure what it found. I replaced this code with this:
require_once("cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php");

After that, it was properly recognizing the proper fields. I've updated the record that you had already on there so that they would display.

A correction from my earlier post. If publishDate is left blank it WILL NOT publish, it will be hidden. Going forward what you're going to need to do is to either set the remove date into the future OR check the Never Remove check box to have your post display.

Take a look and let me know if you run into any other issues.

Hope this helps.