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August 4, 2010
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cfif condition for dates

  • August 4, 2010
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hi i need to check date for 3 days and if that is date i have to display link or else have to display another

ex:

<cfoutput>

<cfset todaydate="#DateFormat(now(),"mm/dd/yyyy")#"/>

<cfif  #todaydate# is "08/04/2010" or #todaydate# is "08/05/2010>

this is to display

<cfelse>

this has to display

</cfoutput>

is the above conditional statement is correct or not? please help me

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Correct answer Steve Sommers

That will work for this specific example, but you are treating the dates as strings and if you continue programming in CF, this way will be bulky and confusing.

I would do the following instead:

<cfset todaydate = now() />
<cfif todaydate GTE CreateDate(2010,8,4) and todaydate LT CreateDate(2010,8,7)>
            <a href="test.cfm" hidefocus="true">Test</a>
<cfelse>
            <a href="test2.cfm" hidefocus="true">test2</a>
</cfif>

Using this method, if you decide to do this again for a 90 day window, the if statement stays about as big as it is -- using your method will require a lot of dates to be typed.

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Steve Sommers
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August 4, 2010

<cfoutput>

<cfset todaydate=Now() />

<cfset begdate=DateAdd("d",-2,todaydate) />

<cfif  somedate GTE begdate>

     <!-- date is within 3 days - today, yesterday, or day before -->

<cfelse>

     <!-- date is olderthan 3 days -->

</cfif>

</cfoutput>

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cfnewAuthor
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August 4, 2010

i need for today , tommorow and dayafter tomorrow. below code is correct or not?

<cfset todaydate = "#DateFormat(now(),"mm/dd/yyyy")#"/>
            <cfif (#todaydate# is "08/04/2010") OR (#todaydate# is "08/05/2010") OR (#todaydate# is "08/06/2010")>
    
            <a href="test.cfm" hidefocus="true">Test</a>
            <cfelse>
            <a href="test2.cfm" hidefocus="true">test2</a>
            </cfif>

because i just need to display link only for next 3 days

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Steve SommersCorrect answer
Legend
August 4, 2010

That will work for this specific example, but you are treating the dates as strings and if you continue programming in CF, this way will be bulky and confusing.

I would do the following instead:

<cfset todaydate = now() />
<cfif todaydate GTE CreateDate(2010,8,4) and todaydate LT CreateDate(2010,8,7)>
            <a href="test.cfm" hidefocus="true">Test</a>
<cfelse>
            <a href="test2.cfm" hidefocus="true">test2</a>
</cfif>

Using this method, if you decide to do this again for a 90 day window, the if statement stays about as big as it is -- using your method will require a lot of dates to be typed.

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