CGblog - if expired

[seanus]

Hi all,

I have done a search of the forum and havent come up with anything yet.

What i want to do is when a blog article for a specific category expires it show some other text.

The section im using it for is a weekly promotions area. So i would love to set a promotions and let it expire after a week and have some text show up like "Please check back soon". Untill a new promotions is put up.

Is there anyway to achieve this??

[applejack]

Use {capture}

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{capture assign=blogtmp}{CGBlog etc etc}{/capture}
{if $blogtmp}
{$blogtmp}
{else}
Do something else
{/if}

[applejack]

Or use capture in the summary template or do a conditional statement in it or use counter or index to check whether or not the foreach loop actually loops. Check smarty.net

[cb2004]

Paste your summary template and I will help you out.

[seanus]

I actually found something in the share your tags... a UDT called "count news items" works perfectly for what i want. Not sure if its the best solution but it works for me.

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{$count_news_items}
{if $itemcount != 0}
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<h2>{$entry->title|escape} - {$entry->postdate|cms_date_format}</h2>
{eval var=$entry->content}
{if !empty($entry->fieldsbyname.promotions->value)}
<div id="promotion">
<a href="{$entry->file_location}/{$entry->fieldsbyname.promotions->value}"><img src="{$entry->file_location}/thumb_{$entry->fieldsbyname.promotions->value}" /></a>
</div>
{/if}
{/foreach}
{else}
<h2>Product Promotions</h2>
<p>There are currently no in-store promotions running. Please check back at a later date for new product promotions</p>
{/if}