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Token for current date?
May 13, 2010, 06:13:47 am
Hi,

Is there an undocumented token that displays today's date for use in a CiviMail message?  I've tried the Smarty "now" function which didn't work.

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Re: Token for current date?
May 13, 2010, 01:14:01 pm

no

but if you do write one / figure out how to get smarty now to work, please publish your findings so others can benefit

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Re: Token for current date?
May 13, 2010, 02:34:41 pm
Hey Lobo,

I'm assuming that the HTML version (via CKEditor) of a CiviMail is run through Smarty...or is the token replacement done outside of Smarty?  I'm a little puzzled why Smarty functions don't work.  If that's true, then a custom Smarty plugin won't work either.

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Re: Token for current date?
May 13, 2010, 03:08:32 pm

No. CiviMail messages are not run via smarty

you can try the technique suggested here: http://civicrm.org/node/480

have not tested that in a long time, so you might need to check / fix the code

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Re: Token for current date?
August 23, 2010, 08:32:09 pm
Not to be facetious, but, if you go to google.com and in the search box you enter the keywords you are looking for and then site:civicrm.org, google will give you back all search results including blogs, forum, documentation, etc. e.g.
token hook blog lobo site:civicrm.org

or conversely you can click on the advance search link next to the search button and it will give you lots of choices including date parameters to search on  ;)

Mind you that it might not be as good as setting up Google Custom Search on the site since it might do something extra with the indexing... but I have already used it to find blog entries and it works.

lobo,
maybe version 4.0 should include a real ECMS such as Alfresco http://www.alfresco.com/community/ to be used as the repository for documentation, portal, blogs, wiki, etc.? 

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Re: Token for current date?
October 28, 2010, 09:55:52 am
Quote from: Cedeira on August 23, 2010, 08:32:09 pm
Not to be facetious, but, if you go to google.com and in the search box you enter the keywords you are looking for and then site:civicrm.org, google will give you back all search results including blogs, forum, documentation, etc. e.g.
token hook blog lobo site:civicrm.org

I think this is where we all start... if it were that easy I don't think this forum post would be here. I have searched the CiviCRM site many times and can't find a token for today's date. And if it is easy for you to find, could you please include it here on the forum post? Thanks.

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Re: Token for current date?
October 28, 2010, 04:41:23 pm

CiviCRM does not expose a token for today's date. You should be able to use Smarty's php feature at the very least to be able to print out todays date in the template:

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/language.function.php.php

you can also search across all CiviCRM site via CiviSearch :)

http://civicrm.org/civisearch

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Re: Token for current date?
March 03, 2013, 02:52:56 am
Thanks for guidance Lobo,  This is how it will work. to display the current date when using message template.

{php}
    $mdate=date('F jS, Y');
     $this->assign('CurrentDate',$mdate);
{/php}
<strong>{$CurrentDate}</strong>

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Re: Token for current date?
July 06, 2013, 06:17:12 am
Thanks everybody! I will include the code that I used to change the language of the date as my server was speaking the date in English and I need it in spanish!.

{php}

     setlocale(LC_ALL,"es_ES");
     $mdate=strftime("%d de %B del %Y");
     $this->assign('CurrentDate',$mdate);
   
{/php}
<p align="right"> Salta, {$CurrentDate}</p>


I am not a programer just found the code in the web and I think that maybe is useful for others!.

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Re: Token for current date?
April 29, 2015, 02:00:30 am
If you're using Drupal you can use our module which makes today's date available as a token in CiviCRM.
https://www.gmcvodatabases.org.uk/civicrm-stuff/civicrm_todaysdate_token.tar.gz

Just extract it to sites/all/modules

This works for CiviCRM 4.4.x and 4.5.x so far.

N.B. This makes 3 dates available which are formats most useful for the UK, but can be changed simply if you look at the code

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Re: Token for current date?
April 29, 2015, 08:34:01 am
We discovered at the sprint that just about everyone has written a token for this at some point (here's mine https://github.com/eileenmcnaughton/nz.co.fuzion.civitoken) - core would welcome a patch to put that in core according to DGG if someone wants to...
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