Change date format

[msbsindia]

Just installed oscommerce successfully.

Waiting to go live.

When any user tries to register on the site - it shows birth date box in following format - m/d/y

I hope this will be the same in any others section of oscommerce.

How can I change this to d/m/y.

[jhsands]

Just installed oscommerce successfully.

Waiting to go live.

When any user tries to register on the site - it shows birth date box in following format - m/d/y

I hope this will be the same in any others section of oscommerce.

How can I change this to d/m/y.

 

Change this in includes/languages/english.php

 

define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/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($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);
 } else {
return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2);
 }
}

 

to this (you can copy it from german.php, also)

 

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 strftime()
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);
 }
}

[msbsindia]

Now - there is one problem.

In the footer - It shows date as - Sunday, 13. August 2006.

Instead I want to show Sunday, 13 August 2006.

i.e. I want to remove the dot.

How Can I Do So?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change this in includes/languages/english.php

 

define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y');  // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/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($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4);
 } else {
return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2);
 }
}

 

to this (you can copy it from german.php, also)

 

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 strftime()
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);
 }
}

[Guest]

Look in your includes/footer.php file around line 29 or 30. Looks like your code might be messed up a little bit with one too many periods. If you want to post your footer.php file I can look at it for you if you don't know what to do. Also, provide a link to your website.

[msbsindia]

I got it.

I modified the code to the following-

 

 

 

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 strftime()
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);
 }
}

 

 

But I am not able to understand what does that "substr" mean?

[Guest]

Straight from the PHP manual.

 

substr

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

 

substr -- Return part of a string

Description

string substr ( string string, int start [, int length] )

 

 

substr() returns the portion of string specified by the start and length parameters.

 

If start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the start'th position in string, counting from zero. For instance, in the string 'abcdef', the character at position 0 is 'a', the character at position 2 is 'c', and so forth.

 

 

Clear as mud. :thumbsup:

[msbsindia]

Straight from the PHP manual.

 

substr

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

 

substr -- Return part of a string

Description

string substr ( string string, int start [, int length] )

substr() returns the portion of string specified by the start and length parameters.

 

If start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the start'th position in string, counting from zero. For instance, in the string 'abcdef', the character at position 0 is 'a', the character at position 2 is 'c', and so forth.

Clear as mud. :thumbsup:

 

 

 

I don't know what is the use of substr here - but I hope that there are no errors in the use of substr in the code modified.