Submission Time Resest

[vgn24]

Is there a way to have a submissions time reset once it is voted onto the frontpage? Depending on the time set in the admin panel, a submission can sit in "Upcoming" for X days.

Would be very nice if the submission's time reverted to that of a new submission once it hit the front page.

Any ideas?

[voxxxlll]

That its easy.Youll have to edit your template, no need to add that setting on admin panel.Ill tell you how when ill be home.

[vgn24]

Any tips on what to edit in the template? Thanks in advance.

[vgn24]

Bump shaker. Still trying to figure out how to reset the time of submissions once they are voted from "Upcoming" to "Published" since stories typically get voted in different orders.

[JoseffB]

What happens to a published link when it hits the timer again? It goes back to upcoming or gets discarded or something? I don't see why you want to reset the timer.

[vgn24]

Really? okay:

I want the submitted time (the time an article is submitted) to reset once it goes from upcoming (place submissions go first) to published (place submissions go once they reach X number of votes require to leave upcoming).

This way articles appear in the order they're approved, but the times are reset so they too are in order.

So - the question is how to have the submission's time stamp reset once it's published.

[vgn24]

What happens to a published link when it hits the timer again? It goes back to upcoming or gets discarded or something? I don't see why you want to reset the timer.

I want the time to reset once approved, not return to upcoming. This way when a story that sits in upcoming for 24 hours and gets voted to the front page (published), it will look more current.

I have stories appear on the frontpage in the order they're published. It looks pretty odd when the first story on the frontpage is 8 hours old followed by a story that's 4 minutes old.

Seems completely logical that published stories should have the time they're published, not initially submitted.

[vwdw]

pligg has link_published_date variable, which is the time the story gets published. You can try and use it. EDIT: basically, default SQL is ORDER BY link_published_date DESC, link_date DESC if I'm not mistaken, so it's already half the way you want it.

[vgn24]

Okay. That makes sense. Is there a way to enable the link_published_date variable in the admin or is it something that needs to be hard coded into a template? I've already ordered the frontpage in order of published (newest at top). So the published variable is exactly what I'm looking for.

Thanks for a very helpful and accurate (based on the actual question) reply.

[vwdw]

It's hard code only, I'm afraid.
I can't give you exact instructions, just pointers.

EDIT: Disregard what was written here before, since it might corrupt upcoming story display.

Edit 2: okay, for starters try opening index.php and rewrite the string

 if(!isset($_REQUEST['search'])){$search->orderBy = "link_published_date DESC, link_date DESC";} 
  

like this:

 if(!isset($_REQUEST['search'])){$search->orderBy = "link_published_date DESC";} 
  

see what happens.