Display a field for a specific amount of time

Question

I'd like to place a small overlay on my video called "New". So I downloaded the date module and added a date field to my video content type.

Anyone know if its possible to then output the date field (which I can style with CSS) only for a certain period of time like a week or two? After a set date the field would not be output.

Thanks guys!

Update: I have found a module called fieldscheduler that will schedule a field, but I cannot schedule a specific node, only all nodes that use that field. So close!

Answer 1

Field Formatter Conditions should do what you want with perhaps a little tweaking/Rules manipulation.

Answer 2

I don't know what format your date field uses so you'll have to adjust for that, but something along the lines of

if(($content['field_date'] >= $first_date) && ($content['field_date'] <= $second_date)) {
  print render($content['field_date');
} else {
  print($wrong_date_message);
}

...where $first_date and $second_date are the beginning and end of the date window for which you want to display the field, and $wrong_date_message is whatever you want to show up there instead when the field isn't displayed.

For more information about date formats in PHP, check out http://php.net/date.