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I need a code to compare if current date and time is greater than article created time of joomla. I have this example code:

  function CompareDate() {  
   //            new Date(Year, Month, Date, Hr, Min, Sec);  
   var dateOne = new Date(2020, 03, 20, 11, 00, 00);  
   var dateTwo = new Date(2020, 03, 20, 12, 00, 00);  

   if (dateOne > dateTwo) {  
        alert("Date One is greater than Date Two.");  
    }else {  
        alert("Date Two is greater than Date One.");  
    }  
}  
CompareDate();

Where I need: 'dateOne' to be the current date and time and 'dateTwo' to be the article createad date and time

Any help with this?

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  • Have you searched through our existing pages for datetime insights? We have already spoken thoroughly about server time, utc, and client-side timestamps. – mickmackusa♦ Mar 26 '20 at 23:09
  • Based on your answer, this is no longer a javascript question which makes your question Unclear. Also, here is a similar post: joomla.stackexchange.com/a/18810/12352 – mickmackusa♦ Mar 28 '20 at 21:01
  • yes Sir this was resolved via php. the post you point to... has nothing similar with my question . – viper1 Mar 29 '20 at 9:44
  • While not an exact duplicate, it does demonstrate how to compare an article's date to a generated date. I will disagree that it "has nothing similar". Your exact scenario is only a more basic generated date. – mickmackusa♦ Mar 29 '20 at 9:55
  • the basic of my question was how to fetch an article created time of joomla article in php code, Sir. the other part of code was easy.Thank you – viper1 Mar 29 '20 at 10:02
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I'll assume you're using an inline script inside a PHP file. Depending on how you're fetching the creation date of the article, you may need to make some minor modifications:

// Get the creation date of the article
// This may need to be changed according to your requirements
$creationDate = $this->item->created;

Joomla\CMS\Factory::getDocument()->addScriptDeclaration('
    document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
        function CompareDate()
        {
            var dateOne = new Date("' . $creationDate . '");
            var dateTwo = new Date(Date.now());

            if (dateOne > dateTwo)
            {  
                alert("Date One is greater than Date Two.");
            }
            else
            {  
                alert("Date Two is greater than Date One.");
            }  
        }

        CompareDate();
    });
');
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  • yes I'm using inline script inside custom html article. I try your code but now I'm not getting any message which date is greater. – viper1 Mar 26 '20 at 10:51
  • @viper - Try the updated code. Please report back any console errors. – Lodder Mar 26 '20 at 10:56
  • I get this error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '>' – viper1 Mar 26 '20 at 11:01
  • You're going to need to updated your question with some more code then. Cause if I add this to: administrator\components\com_content\tmpl\article\edit.php it works perfectly fine. – Lodder Mar 26 '20 at 11:54
  • this code should work but it contains both php and js code so how could it be separated – viper1 Mar 27 '20 at 4:45
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Resolved! This is a working php code to compare current date to article created date:

$date1 = new DateTime(); $date2 = new DateTime($article->created); if ($date1 > $date2) 
echo $date1->format("Y-m-d") . " is latest than "
        . $date2->format("Y-m-d"); else echo $date1->format("Y-m-d") . " is older than " 
        . $date2->format("Y-m-d");
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