date of birth

[jeellison]

Hi all,

 

Hope your all doing well.

 

A quick question which im sure is easy but I just cant seem to find it.

 

Where abouts to I change the format of date of birth from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy for customers signing up?

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Best Regards

J

[Guest]

Here's how to do it. (remember to backup before any modification)

 

Also chage the country code to match yours (this example uses GB for UK)

 

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* Open catalog/includes/languages/english.php (this is for your catalog section)

* The changes are highlighted.

********************************************************************

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_GB.ISO_8859-1');

 

define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y'); // this is used for strftime()

define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()

define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date()

define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

 

////

// Return date in raw format

// $date should be in format mm/dd/yyyy

// raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY

function tep_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) {

if ($reverse) {

return substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);

} else {

return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2);

}

}

 

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Also change the following

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define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR', 'Your Date of Birth must be in this format: MM/DD/YYYY (eg 05/21/1970)');

to

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_ERROR', 'Your Date of Birth must be in this format: DD/MM/YYYY (eg 21/05/1970)');

 

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_TEXT', '* (eg. 05/21/1970)');

to

define('ENTRY_DATE_OF_BIRTH_TEXT', '* (eg. 21/05/1970)');

 

define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'mm/dd/yyyy');

to

define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'dd/mm/yyyy');

[jeellison]

Thank you ever so much.

 

Best Regards

J

[Guest]

Thank you ever so much.

 

Best Regards

J

 

I needed this functionality as well - brilliant, this thread worked like a charm!

[rozesky]

Thank you ever so much.

 

Best Regards

J

 

this has helped me thanks alot :thumbsup:

[sallyvigar]

thank you from me too ! this works!!

[♥Vger]

Don't forget to do the same in admin/includes/languages/english.php

 

Vger

[Guest]

Thanks for the very clear and easy to use instructions! Works in the catalog and in admin :)

[PatForde]

An absolute Godsend

 

Many thanks

[edmond1815]

I just tried your indications. I put :

 

 

 

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'ro_RO.ISO_8859-2');

 

 

But the date is still in english format:

 

Monday 25 February .. instead of Luni, 25 Februarie.

 

What should i change?

 

Thank you,

 

Edmond

[Guest]

I just tried your indications. I put :

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'ro_RO.ISO_8859-2');

But the date is still in english format:

 

Monday 25 February .. instead of Luni, 25 Februarie.

 

What should i change?

 

Thank you,

 

Edmond

Something in one of the language files that you are using.

 

You should consider if you want dob to be collected. I can see no valid reason for it.

[d_paulo]

Something in one of the language files that you are using.

 

You should consider if you want dob to be collected. I can see no valid reason for it.

 

 

Some times it just doesn't work and this could be just an simple wrong configuration to server where your page is located.

[psg]

Hi,

 

Thanks for this great contribution.

I'm having a small problem on the 'Account_edit.php' file. I'm using the "Pulldown Date Of Birth V1.1 for EU date format (dd-mm-yyyy) stores".

I can not edit the date of birth; it only accepts 1-12 in the day’s field. When you select to "View or change my account information", and for example the date of birth was "23 June 1967" the date of birth is displayed as "1 June 1967" and when you try to change it to the correct DOB i.e. 23 June 1967 - the following error message is displayed "Your Date of Birth must be in this format: DD/MM/YYYY (eg 21/05/1970)".

 

I think the day field in the 'account_edit.php' is coded to accept months (1-12) instead of days (1-31). It works fine in the 'create_account.php' file.

 

Can some one please help?

 

 

Best wishes,

 

Paul

[Alexian]

thank you!! :)

[ipatel]

Thanks!!! Great clear instructions.

Appreciate the effort.

[superkingkong]

thank you very much :)

 

the "installation thread" on the sticky is not accurate. It didn't mention about changing this one...

 

if ($reverse) {

return substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);

} else {

return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2);

}

 

thus i was having problem earlier... until i found out this thread :)

 

btw, i'm using the DOB, same as psg. now, it's working like a charm!

[hlee]

Problem solved.

 

Thank you so much.

[anola82]

THANKYOU SO MUCH......... I couldnt for the life of me get this right, I had changed everything but the numbers, thank you for highlighting the items needing to be changed, you got rid of my week long headache! :)