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How can I change the date format for a module? 1 year 2 months ago #39659

ellen
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I am using Joomla 2.5. I want to show the last time a visitor logged in to the site. I added the code:

echo "<p>Your last visit was {$user->lastvisitDate}";

to the default.php file of the mod_login module.I created a folder and placed it in my html folder in my template folder. It works, but I don't like the date format. How and where do I fix this? I tried modifying the language file EN-gb.ini both in the override file and the actual file (I know, I know, I wasn't going to leave it there, just testing it!) with DATE_FORMAT_LC4=%m.%d.%y. It didn't change the date format.
Can you help me?

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How can I change the date format for a module? 1 year 2 months ago #39666

Nick
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Hi Ellen,

Wow, great job so far! :)

You could try editing the other DATE_FORMAT_LCs. I never have figured out what the different numbers control for sure and it doesn't appear that there's any documentation for them.

If that doesn't help, in your template override you could do something similar to the following instead:

echo "<p>Your last visit was " . date("your php date format here", strtotime($this->u->lastvisitDate));

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Nick

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How can I change the date format for a module? 1 year 2 months ago #39670

ellen OFFLINE OSTarlet Posts: 50 Karma: 0	Can you breakdown what you mean by echo "<p>Your last visit was " . date("your php date format here", strtotime($this->u->lastvisitDate)); what do you mean by 'your php date format here"?
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How can I change the date format for a module? 1 year 2 months ago #39698

Nick OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 16744 Thank you received: 373 Karma: 55	Hi Ellen, Sure, could you take a look at the following documentation and let me know if it helps or not? php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Kind regards, Nick
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How can I change the date format for a module? 1 year 2 months ago #39703

ellen OFFLINE OSTarlet Posts: 50 Karma: 0	I tried using echo "<p>Your last visit was " . date("l F d Y", strtotime($this->u->lastvisitDate)); in place of echo "<p>Your last visit was {$user->lastvisitDate}"; and got an error message.Maybe I didn't do it right. I don't really know php. Ellen
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How can I change the date format for a module? 1 year 2 months ago #39732

Nick OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 16744 Thank you received: 373 Karma: 55	Hi Ellen, What error message did you get? Kind regards, Nick
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How can I change the date format for a module? 1 year 2 months ago #39762

edandrea OFFLINE OSTop Dog Posts: 3106 Thank you received: 7 Karma: 0	Hi Ellen, I don't think the code is correct. Go back to the page Nick recommended and study the examples. Maybe copy and paste one that's similar to what you want and see if it generates an error. (or at least try one that you know works for sure.) Ed
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