Date based conditional items in templates

[MrEyes]

Hello,

In showthread template I would like to add a message to all threads that are older than X days, can anybody point me in the right direction for this?

[Opserty]

You'd need something like this in a template (e.g. showthread)

<if condition="$thread['dateline'] < (TIMENOW - (28 * 24 * 60 * 60))">
    YOUR MESSAGE HERE
</if>

The bit in red is how long ago the cutoff date is (in seconds). So 60x60x24x28 is approx. a month (or 28 days), I hope. :erm:

You may need to try $threadinfo if $thread does not work.

[MrEyes]

Unfortunately, when trying that I get the following error:

The following template conditional expression contains function calls:

<if condition="$thread['dateline'] < (TIMENOW - (28 * 24 * 60 * 60))">

With a few exceptions, function calls are not permitted in template conditional expressions. Please go back and re-write this expression.

The following functions are allowed in template conditional expressions:
in_array() is_array() is_numeric() isset() empty() defined() array() can_moderate() can_moderate_calendar() exec_switch_bg() is_browser() is_member_of()

--------------- Added [DATE]1203175879[/DATE] at [TIME]1203175879[/TIME] ---------------

After a little fiddling the following works:

<if condition="$thread['dateline'] < TIMENOW - 2419200">
<p>test - this should only display in threads older than a month</p>
</if>

The VB parser obviously doesnt like the (x * y * z) part