Question

Using the blog tutorial, I would like to have an option where you can see the posts on the “main” index page until the post has been active for x days. After this time period of x days I would like the post to be set as “expired” in the database. Can anyone shed some light on the best way to achieve this?

Answer 1

If you use paginate then use:

NOTE HERE $x is your intarval

$this->Post->recursive = 0;
$this->paginate = array(
            'conditions' => array('DATEDIFF(CURDATE(), DATE(Post.created)) >' => $x)
        );
$this->set('posts', $this->paginate());

For normal find() use this:

$this->Post->find('all', 
                   array(
                    'conditions' => array('DATEDIFF(CURDATE(), DATE(Post.created)) >' => $x)
                   )
                 );