Name

db-date — report last-modified time of the named database source file

ATTRIBUTES

Attribute Pos. Req. Default Description
table Yes Yes products Interchange database name.
format Yes Yes %A %d %b %Y POSIX strftime format specifier.
interpolate     0 interpolate output?
hide     0 Hide the tag return value?

DESCRIPTION

The tag displays the last-modified time of the database source text file. Output format can be specified using format=.

BEHAVIOR

This tag does not appear to be affected by, or affect, the rest of Interchange.

EXAMPLES

Example: Displaying products database last-modified time

Provided that you use file-based databases in your catalog (*DB* variants), you can run this example:

[db-date]

NOTES

This tag will be of use for you only if you use source file based databases. If you use SQL databases, the logical connection with text source files will probably not be maintained so the output of this tag will be worthless.

AVAILABILITY

db-date is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

Source: code/UserTag/db_date.tag
Lines: 41


# Copyright 2002-2007 Interchange Development Group and others
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.  See the LICENSE file for details.
# 
# $Id: db_date.tag,v 1.4 2007-03-30 23:40:56 pajamian Exp $

# [db-date table format]
#
# This tag returns the last-modified time of a database table,
# 'products' by default. Accepts a POSIX strftime value for
# date format; uses '%A %d %b %Y' by default.
#
UserTag  db-date  Order     table format
UserTag  db-date  PosNumber 2
UserTag  db-date  Version   $Revision: 1.4 $
UserTag  db-date  Routine   <<EOF
sub {
  my ($db, $format) = @_;
my ($dbfile, $mtime);

# use defaults if necessary
$db = 'products' unless $db;
  $format = '%A %d %b %Y' unless $format;

# build database file name
$dbfile = $Vend::Cfg->{ProductDir} . '/' 
  . $Vend::Cfg->{Database}{$db}{'file'};

# get last modified time
$mtime = (stat ($dbfile))[9];

if (defined ($mtime)) {
  return POSIX::strftime($format, localtime($mtime));
} else {
  logError ("Couldn't stat $dbfile: $!\n");
}
}
EOF

AUTHORS

Interchange Development Group

SEE ALSO

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