Movable Type Community Forum > Compare Plugin -- Compare Years?

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bdhamilton

May 31 2004, 11:49 AM

In one of my weblogs, I'd like to be able to test to see if the entry is dated before a certain year, and if it is, simple display the label "High School" instead of the specific date. I'm trying to use the Compare Plugin like this:

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<MTIfEqual a="[EntryDate format='%Y']" b="2002" numeric="1">High School</MTIfEqual>

<MTIfNotEqual a="[EntryDate format='%Y']" b="2002" numeric="1"><$MTEntryDate format="%B %Y"$></MTIfNotEqual>

but it isn't working--I don't think that argument a is getting correctly passed. Does anyone either know why, or have a suggestion for a better way to do this? Thanks.

staggernation

May 31 2004, 12:04 PM

You're missing "MT" in the names of the tags you're passing to the plugin. Try:

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a="[MTEntryDate format='%Y']"

staggernation

May 31 2004, 12:05 PM

You can also use the comparison tags in the DateTags plugin for comparing dates, but this seems simple enough that Compare will do the trick...

bdhamilton

May 31 2004, 12:43 PM

Well don't I feel dumb--that works perfectly. Thanks!

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