UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Dates in w3tnews.php

Can someone help me with this, probably very simple, newbie hack:

I just want to be able to control the date format of the posted date on the list of news items, and I want it to be 'Monday 5 January 2020' or whatever...so I find these lines:

// ---------------------------------
// Set up the variables for echoing
$date = $html -> convert_time($Posted);

and I reckong that $posted has come straight from the database and is therefore a 'seoncd since epoch' string. So I just change 'convert_time($Posted)' to 'date('l d F Y', $Posted)', right?

If so, how come I get an error saying undefined function date() in line 1 - it's not line one for a start!

My new copy of w3tnews.php is in the root of my site:

.../html/libdems/oxfordshirelibdems/testhome.php

and my w3t installation is in:

.../html/libdems/oxfordshirelibdems/forums/

and the testhome.php file knows that. If I don't make this change it works, so it's seeing all the paths correctly. I can't understand where I am going wrong.

Jock

Your updated line should look like this:

$date = date('l d F Y', $Posted);

It sounds like it looks like this (which will not work):

$date = $html -> date('l d F Y', $Posted);

Doh! An experienced eye always helps! Thanls Scream. I even understand why it won't work now that you point it out - because it's currently looking for a date() method of the html class, not just a native PHP function!

Anyhow - it works great, and it was quicker to achieve than my Lotus Notes html filled view...:-)

Cheers,

Jock