Question

If I have a smarty variable

{$test.date_created}

that displays a date in a smarty template, for example:

02/2/2012

On the smarty website, it says that you can display today’s date with the following.

{$smarty.now|date_format:'%m/%d/%Y'}

How can I use it in an if statement to display a message when its 3 days old or more from today’s date?

If its 3 days old or more, display “Old”. If not, Display “New”.

Answer 1

You can use strtotime() to get the timestamp corresponding to three days ago, and then compare this to the date of your message. For example, assuming $message is your message record and $message['date'] is the timestamp you have to check:

$isMessageOld = ($message['date'] <= strtotime('-3 days'));
$smarty->assign('isMessageOld', $isMessageOld);

And then, in your template:

{if $isMessageOld} ... {/if}

I’m not 100% sure, but you can also test it directly in Smarty. Assuming you have $message passed to Smarty:

{if $message.date <= strtotime('-3 days')} ... {/if}