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    Posted by jstotz posts: 35

    I have the lastmod plugin at the bottom of my pages. It always shows the current date and time as of the last page load. If I refresh the page without changing it, the time changes to the new current time. I thought that this was only supposed to update when I actually edit the page.

    (Using version 5.0)

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    Posted by Zac posts: 72 United States

    I'm having the same issue.

    I was hoping to use this plugin to display version info when printing pages, but I get the same issue as you; the plugin outputs the current time.

    I'm using Tiki 8.3.


    Posted by Tom Jarvis posts: 215
    I checked the lastmod plugin in 6.7 and it calls the page_exists_modtime function in /lib/tikilib.php. For some reason the function is returning a null, which causes the lastmod plugin to display the current date and time.

    Posted by Zac posts: 72 United States

    Thanks for looking into this Tom. I see the same thing in 8.3. Should this be reported as a bug? Sorry if that's a silly question, I'm new to Tiki and don't want to offend.

    I don't know much about fixing php code, so for now I'm trying to use pluginSQL as a workaround to pull the same data. Sure would be nice if the LastMod worked though.


    Posted by Tom Jarvis posts: 215

    The documentation for the Lastmod Plugin says if you don't specify the page name, Lastmod defaults to the current page.

    I have now tested:

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    {LASTMOD()/}

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    {LASTMOD(page=HomePage)/}

    in the HomePage of Tiki versions 2 through 9.

    In each version of Tiki, the plugin with the pagename specified worked correctly (other than the '%0' in Tiki 2 mentioned in the documentation).

    When Lastmod is coded without specifying the page name, the current date and time are returned in Tiki versions 2 through 6, and nothing at all is returned in Tiki versions 7 through 9.

    There appears to be a problem with how the Lastmod plugin get the page name when it is not specified.

    This is a bug that could be reported. The workaround is to specify the page name.

    Posted by Zac posts: 72 United States

    Thanks again Tom! I really appretiate you sharing your expertise. Hopefully I can return the favor one day.

    I was able to get LastMod plugin to work by specifying the page name as you mention in the workaround.

    I was hoping to use this plugin in a template for wiki pages, but having to specify the page for every instance will make that a bit of a challange.

    When I read through the docs I didn't pick up on this workaround. I have update the doc and add a bug report.