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Calandar date format
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:50 pm
by outdoorxtreme1
I need help changing the date format for the calendar event template. Currently it shows - 5 March 2006
I want it to be - 03/05/06
How do I do this. I tried changing some if the settings of the template with no luck.
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:18 pm
by outdoorxtreme1
Do I need to modify the module itself?
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:46 am
by Greg
you need to set the date_format parameter in the tag to %d/%m/%y
e.g.
{cms_module module="Calendar" date_format="%d/%m/%y"}
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:51 am
by outdoorxtreme1
I tried this tag in my template and it didn't work.
{cms_module module="Calendar" date_format="%m/%d/%y" summaries=true display="upcominglist" table_id="cal-upcominglist" limit=3}
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:03 am
by iNSiPiD
I had the same issue since News was upgraded to v2. Neither the 'date_format' nor the 'more' attributes worked any more.
I seem to have resolved this somehow but it's not in the templates or the module call, which means I must have hacked it at some stage.
At the moment I have two different date formats for my News and Site Updates and th eonly difference in the templates is that one checks for 'formatpostdate' and the other for 'postdate'.
e.g.
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{if $entry->formatpostdate}
<div class="NewsSummaryPostdate">
{$entry->formatpostdate}
</div>
{/if}
Can someone "in the know" please provide the correct steps for altering the date format? I thought it was now done through the templates but am not sure what syntax to use.
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:27 pm
by iNSiPiD
Helpful as ever, Patricia. That's exactly the answer we needed.
It would be nice to know what other paramters can be defined using this syntax.
{$entry->postdate|date_format:"%d/%m/%y"}
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:09 pm
by iNSiPiD
Thanks again, Patricia. It's hard to know sometimes where the CMS stops and Smarty begins.
A case in point is Smarty's email tag which already handles various types of encryption. Why do we bother having a plugin that does the same thing but uses javascript to achive its goal. Seems silly. I could also mention the phpinfo module -- but i won't.
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:30 pm
by outdoorxtreme1
Wouldn't work for me this way but I found another way. In the template I moved:
{$month_names[$month_number]}
and
{$event.event_date_start|date_format:"%e"}
around in the template to get it to output how I wanted the date to look.
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:45 am
by iNSiPiD
Yep. Good input.
The Calendar module uses dates differently from the News module.
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:53 am
by fredt
As usual, this answer saved me... Thanks Patricia !
This support forum is by far THE BEST I've seen in my 20 years as consultant ! Even experts-exchange is far behind...
Fred
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:00 pm
by fredt
I'd like to... perhaps on Tips & Tricks or FAQ section... But I'm just a nOOb, and have no time at all... my wife already went mad yesterday about me & computers!
OK, I'm going to play Loto, so I'm rich and am forced to earn my money anymore
BTW, I'd like to see Calendar without installing it (cf a previous post) - can somebody post a link, just to see this Calendar ?
Fred
Re: Calandar date format
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:01 pm
by iNSiPiD
fredt,
To install, you only have to click Install in the Extensions->Modules screen and then add the tag to a page. It's very simple. The harder part is styling it the way you like with CSS.
Here's an example with no events in it.
http://d81314.i50.quadrahosting.com.au/events-calendar