Hey there, Couch-people

I am currently trying to somehow store the current year in a variable that i can re-use for a <cms:if> condition, to display an "active" attribute in an anchor tag.

I tried creating a global value using the cms:php tag, but i can't seem to use it in the if condition.. Is there any suggested best practise?

This is what i tried:

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 <cms:editable
 name='year'
 label='Year'
 desc='enter year'
 type='text' />

<cms:php>
  global $curyear;
   $curyear = echo date('Y');
</cms:php>

<cms:if year = curyear >
class="active"
</cms:if>

I am not a PHP expert, so i am sure i am missing something here - a less clumsy approach would also be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards

Sundance

You can set and get variables with couch code. Couch also has a date tag.

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<cms:set curyear = "<cms:date format='Y' />" 'global' />
<cms:if year == curyear>
class="active"
</cms:if>

Alternatively,

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<cms:if year == "<cms:date format='Y' />" > class="active"</cms:if>

http://docs.couchcms.com/tags-reference/set.html
http://docs.couchcms.com/tags-reference/date.html

http://docs.couchcms.com/concepts/variables.html