Problem with conditionality

[Milhaus]

Im trying to learn Smarty better. I have following template for Eventslisting module:

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{foreach from=$items item="item"}
{if $item.end > $smarty.now}
 <h3>{$item.short}</h3>
{/if}
{/foreach}

The obvious meaning is that if event ends in the past, the event shouldn't be displayed. I have events showed in attachment. 1. event should be displayed, while second shouldn't. But it doesn't work. If it's

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{if $item.end < $smarty.now}

, then all events are displayed, in opposite case none are displayed.

What am I doing wrong?

[calguy1000]

You can't compare dates that way.

if you want to compare dates you ether have tod o it in the database, or convert the dates back to unixtime (integer)

[Milhaus]

Thanks. I will look at it. Strange is that default template for that module uses similar construct...

[Nullig]

Sorry for the problem Milhaus with the module. I'll be uploading a fix.

The line should be:

{if $item.end < $smarty.now|date_format:'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'}

Nullig

[calguy1000]

yeah, in order to compare dates in that way they have to be all integers, not strings (with the month name)
still the better method would be to convert them all to unix timestamps and do the comparison there.