age of a link from a DATE link field: WSN Support

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age of a link from a DATE link field

david
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Posted 10/19/07 - 11:24 PM:	#1
Hi Paul, I created a new DATE TYPE field for links (each link is a person), and wanted to show each person's actual age whenever somebody views that link's details. I saw this function for members, but how can this be done for a link? Thank You David

Paul
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Posted 10/20/07 - 03:44 PM:	#2
The easy way would be to require people to register and use {MEMBERAGE}. If you want it just for links you'll have to prompt them to type it in a 1980-01-31 format though, presuming that's what mysql is using. Unless you know PHP, in which case you can write a plugin using the beforeaddition function to assemble the input (of selectors perhaps) into that format... like if ($object->objecttype == 'link') $object->birthdate = $object->birthyear .'-'. $object->birthmonth .'-'. $object->birthday;. What I do is store the dates as integers and use strtotime to transform user input into unix timestamps. Edited by Paul on 10/20/07 - 03:47 PM
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david
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Posted 10/20/07 - 11:56 PM:	#3
Hi Paul, Thanks for answer. I will probably get them to become members instead of links. Thanks David

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