I've seen a similar thing when the time zone was wrong on my server - if an article was set to publish in the future, it would be published, but "pending," and a list of published articles would still show it.
It's likely your SQL pull should also filter on the date, so that results with a Finished Publishing Date in the past are filtered out. -Geoffrey On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Todd S <todds...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm creating articles in Joomla 2.5.4 and the setting the "Finished > Publishing" date. Once that date has past, In the admin section the > article has a red x and says "publishing expired". > > I'm doing some manual pulls from the sql db, with the conditional "state > =1" to show all published articles and to Hide the expired articles. i > thought the state=1 is published, state =0 is the unpublished, state = -2 > is trashed. > > However when the article is expired (past the finished publishing date), > the state still shows as 1 in the database, so my custom module is still > showing the expired article, but the link to the actual article is not > valid. > > Any ideas how I can identify from the database when an article is expired? > I'm wondering why the state still shows as "1" for expired articles. > > thanks in advance. > > Todd > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -- Geoffrey Schaller gjschal...@psi-13.com
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