Thanks for the help. I ended up running this in my user model. It
seems to work pretty well.
function activePosts ()
{
$posts = $this->find('all', array('conditions' => array(
array('DATE_ADD(Post.created, INTERVAL 30 DAY) >
CURRENT_DATE'))));
return $posts;
}
Thanks again!
Lance
On Sep 12, 6:17 pm, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Lance <lance3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a expiration field for blog posts that will
> > display something like 25 days to expiration. I added an expiration
> > DATETIME field in my database. I want to make it 30 days from the
> > created DATETIME field in my database. Can anyone steer me in the
> > right direction. I imagine I'll need to do a find with conditions
> > that will add 30 days to the expiration. Any advice would be very
> > very helpful. Thanks in advance.
>
> No need for the extra column as you can just compare the created value
> with the current date to get how many days are left.
>
> $seconds_in_day = 60 * 60 * 24 ;
> $limit = $seconds_in_day * 30; // 30 days
>
> $remaining = mktime() - strtotime($data['Post']['created']);
>
> $days_left = ($limit - $remaining) / $seconds_in_day;
>
> Obviously, you'd need to do something about the float that results. I
> guess rounding up would be the way to go.
>
> You could put this in a model method, eg:
>
> public $expiration_term = 30;
>
> public function getDaysLeft($created)
> {
> $seconds_in_day = 60 * 60 * 24 ;
> $remaining = mktime() - strtotime($created);
>
> return = (int) ceil( ( ( $this->expiration_term * $seconds_in_day ) -
> $remaining ) / $seconds_in_day);
>
> }
>
>
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