* Adding a date to web pages

[RogerF]

The Web Site Wizard offers an Advanced setting at Step 8 -- add HTML code to each page. It would be useful to be able to embed system data (specifically the date, though there may be a few other possible items, for example an email address) into the HTML, such that it is automatically updated as each page is created.

ID:5535

[tatewise]

Not quite sure exactly what you want, but you can do what you request already.
You just have to know a smattering of HTML.
Try adding the following to the in the section, below the menu bar.

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<p style='margin-left:20px'>Date: <b>31 October 2011</b></p>
<p style='margin-left:20px'>E-mail: <a href='mailto:post@domain.com?Subject=FH Web Page'>post@domain.com</a></p>

It should produce something like:

Date: 31 October 2011
E-mail: post@domain.com

This example uses the ... paragraph tags.
The style='margin-left:20px' style indents by 20 pixels from margin.
The ... tags embolden text.
The ... E-mail anchor gives the E-mail link.

[RogerF]

Thanks, Mike, but you missed the key phrase -- 'automatically updated'. What I'm hoping for is along the lines of:

Date: $DATE

[johnmorrisoniom]

To add an automaticaaly updated date, cut and paste the following
Last Modified :   01-Apr-2010 16:42

The date, although showing 1st april at the moment, will update every time you save.
The part [Last Modified :  ] is optional, it's just the way I use it. You can put in any text you like

[Jane]

John, I think that's a dream weaver extension, so will probably only work with dream weaver.

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archi ... 37347.html

[RogerF]

That's a nifty idea, John -- I've not come across the #BeginDate syntax before -- but unfortunately it doesn't work. The date displayed at the foot of each generated page stays implacably fixed at 01-Apr-2010 (using Firefox 7).

[tatewise]

Using some JavaScript to display the File Modified Date should work.

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<p style='margin-left:20px'>
<script type='text/Javascrypt' language='Javascrypt'>
<!-- 

// format date as dd-mmm-yy example: 12-Jan-99

function date_ddmmmyy(date)
{
  var d = date.getDate();
  var m = date.getMonth() + 1;
  var y = date.getYear();
  // handle different year values returned
  if(y >= 2000) { y -= 2000 }
  if(y >= 100) { y -= 100 }
  // could use splitString() here but following is more compatible
  var mmm = (1==m)?'Jan':(2==m)?'Feb':(3==m)?'Mar':(4==m)?'Apr':(5==m)?'May':(6==m)?'Jun':(7==m)?'Jul':(8==m)?'Aug':(9==m)?'Sep':(10==m)?'Oct':(11==m)?'Nov':'Dec';
  return '' + (d<10?'0'+d:d) + '-' + mmm + '-' + (y<10?'0'+y:y);
}

// get last modified date of the current document.

function date_lastmodified()
{
  var lmd = document.lastModified;
  var s   = 'Unknown';
  var d1;
  // check if we have a valid date before proceeding
  if(0 != (d1=Date.parse(lmd)))
  { s = '' + date_ddmmmyy(new Date(d1)) }
  return s;
}

// finally display the last modified date as DD-MMM-YY

document.write( 'This page was created on ' + date_lastmodified() );

// -->
</scrypt>
</p>

If you put the three JavaScript functions in a separate date.js file then only the document.write(...) is needed in the section.
The section would include:

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<scrypt type='text/javascrypt' src='date.js'></scrypt>

[RogerF]

Thanks, Mike; that certainly works. But it would still be better if it could be neatly packaged within FH.

[Cambiz]

WL#499 has been raised

Please vote for it here:

http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldispl ... lwlref=499