Greetings.

I'd like to send invitation/reminder emails with the surveys expiration date. If I use the {EXPIRY} placeholder it works - but it displays a plain date string (e.g. '2014-03-31 00:00:00'). Not too friendly. I tried to EM-ify it by using something like:

{date('j de F',time(strtotime(EXPIRY)))}

But it didn't work. Any ideas? TIA.

Peace.

Well, it seems you've found a bug. The date() function works in questions but not in email templates. I've submitted a report - bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=8752 .

Additionally, you will need to escape a couple of characters in your expression as they are date formats:

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tpartner wrote: Well, it seems you've found a bug. The date() function works in questions but not in email templates. I've submitted a report - bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=8752 .

Additionally, you will need to escape a couple of characters in your expression as they are date formats:

Code:

{date('j \d\e F', strtotime(EXPIRY))}

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All right. Let the old swatter have some action then. Thanks for the character escaping hint.

Peace.

I tried following your advice to include a formatted EXPIRY date in the Reminder email template. This works:

{date('l\, F j\, Y',strtotime('2016-01-28'))}

But this does NOT work:

{date('l\, F j\, Y',strtotime(EXPIRY))}

In fact, I can't even get this to work: {strtotime(EXPIRY)}, although if I "Validate expression in Reminder" it is able to show me the value of EXPIRY. Is there something else I must do to get it to evaluate EXPIRY in the expression?

I have tested {date('l\, F j\, Y',strtotime(EXPIRY))} in reminder emails in latest version of LimeSurvey 2.06 - it works fine.

(Please do not cross-post - you aren't going to get any better answers.)