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gurubob · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 1:54 pm Post subject: date_format on Win32, missing %e

Hi,

It seems that the Win32 implementation of whatever library handles the strftime routine is missing some common format strings, in particular the %e string. This will cause your "date_format"ed dates to show up like:

"July , 2003".

Solution (read: hack) is to open the file modified.date_format.php in the Smarty plugins directory and add these lines after the { on line 15.

/* Win32 Hack for absence of %e format string - note that %d does NOT remove leading 0's, %b does! */
if(eregi('Win32',$_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'])) { $format = str_replace('%e','%d',$format); }

There are possibly more missing strings, but this will fix the most obvious problem. If someone has a nice solution for removing the leading 0's in a %d, I'd like to see it.

Cheers,

- Bob -

alan · Smarty Regular Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 43

Try (untested) :

gurubob · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:19 pm Post subject:

Magic solution - I was just coding it in and I realised that it would affect codes other than %d as well? If you had a legitimate reason to format a date as dd/mm/yy then dates like 01/02/03 would come out at 1/2/3 ... or did I get it wrong? (hey, it's happened before! Wink

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koejkje · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:36 am Post subject:

I was actually unable to get this to work in 2.6 even after asjusting the line number. Question is why do we still have this problem in January , 2004?

messju · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 8:54 am Post subject:

read the note on http://php.net/strftime .

date_format depends on strftime, strftime depends on the capabilities of your operating system's date-functions.

koejkje · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 3:36 am Post subject:

Are you suggesting I just assign the current date using PHP and then use smarty to format that? I was thinking I may have to do this anyway due to the cached pages.

Do you have any suggestions for displaying dates that you don't want cached but still would like designers to be able to format with a smarty template?

messju · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:41 am Post subject:

koejkje · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 12:03 am Post subject:

Wouldn't I then be calling a PHP script? I would like the designers to use the Smarty syntax to format the date within a template.

function insert_get_date($array) {
return date("j F, Y");
}

{insert name="get_date"}

function insert_get_year($array) {
return date("Y");
}

{insert name="get_year"}

Thank you for your help.

tip · Smarty n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

I can propose a patch for modifier.date_format.php:
Unfortunately I don't know how %R should look like, so I didn't include a replacement for it

Ceph · Smarty Rookie Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 24

Or you can just use a different date-formatting plugin.

libs/plugins/modifier.date.php