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I went over the manual and got a fair understanding of how you can create functions in the different classes that can then be called in your templates. Here's my dilemma:
I have a birth_date field in my integrated database in unix format ('0000-00-00'). I would like to display the user age on the view_profile. I tried to use this function:
function calculateage() {
$amember = new member('id', 'birth_date', $id);
$cur_year=date("Y");
$cur_month=date("m");
$cur_day=date("d");
$dob_year=substr($birth_date, 0, 4);
$dob_month=substr($birth_date, 5, 2);
$dob_day=substr($birth_date, 8, 2);
if($cur_month>$dob_month || ($dob_month==$cur_month && $cur_day>$dob_day) )
return $cur_year-$dob_year-1;
else
return $cur_year-$dob_year;
}
This is not working (though I've been able to get it to display various wrong data when tweaking). The main issue is I do not understand how to call a member's 'birth_date' field into the function (using the appropriate sql). I assigned{MEMBERBIRTH_DATE} into the view profile and the '0000-00-00' value was displayed as expected. Can you elaborate on how I can call
these values into a custom function that I could then use.
Thanks!
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