Calender V1.0RC6: How to re-order the date & time?

[Boudi]

Hi,

How can I change the order of the date & time in the Calendar module?

Now the output is like this:


^{Date & Time:  2008-04-10 22:00 
End:                2008-04-11 03:00}


In our region (Netherlands) the output would be: 10-04-2008 22:00

How can I re-order this? I checked several files, did some tweaking, checked the forum, but no luck.

Hope for help or an answer 

[marathoner]

I don't use this module so this is a guess...but most modules use the view.php file to create the displayed HTML. I would guess that if you look in the file you will see where to change the date formating.

[Boudi]

Hi Marathoner,

Yes, you are correct, I checked this file too, but unfortenately no luck either.

[doc]

Hello,

unfortunatelly the calendar module stores hardcoded strings like: YYYY-MM-DD instead of a timestamp. The latter one would allow to style the output in any way you like by the PHP function date.

A short fix for your problem is to extract month, date and year by the PHP function substr and to output the result in the order you want. Have a look to the file: /modules/calendar/functions.php.

Around line 240 search for

Code:

echo $tmp['date_start'];

and replace it with

Code:

echo substr($tmp['date_start'],8,2) .'.' .substr($tmp['date_start'],5,2) .'.' .substr($tmp['date_start'],0,4);

Around line 256 search for

Code:

echo $tmp['date_end']." ";

and replace it with

Code:

echo substr($tmp['date_end'],8,2) .'.' .substr($tmp['date_end'],5,2) .'.' .substr($tmp['date_end'],0,4) .' ';

This allows you to style the output to whatever you need.

Regards Christian

[Boudi]

Hello Christian,

Thank you for taking the time to give your explanation and solution. It works