Benjjj6 Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hi, I tried to change the date of birth format on the create_account.php page but it doesnt seem to have worked. I wanted to change it from this format: mm/dd/yyyy (the american way) to this dd/mm/yyyy I went into create_account.php and changed %m/%d/%y to %d/%m/%y and I even changed the example next to the box.... BUT STILL it wants the format in months, then days, then years... because if I enter a number greater than 12 for the 'dd' it doesnt accept it because it still thinks it is months. There must be something simple to solve this, i dont really know anything about php, i was just using my common sense... help please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 go to /includes/languages.english.php Find // text for gender define('MALE', 'Male'); define('FEMALE', 'Female'); define('MALE_ADDRESS', 'Mr.'); define('FEMALE_ADDRESS', 'Ms.'); // text for date of birth example define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'dd/mm/yyyy'); and then change the dd/mm/yyyyy thats all you need to do to change the date format once thats do go back the the page you said you edited in your post and make sure its changed back to what ever it was so as it doesnt cause any errors of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 go to /includes/languages.english.php Find // text for gender define('MALE', 'Male'); define('FEMALE', 'Female'); define('MALE_ADDRESS', 'Mr.'); define('FEMALE_ADDRESS', 'Ms.'); // text for date of birth example define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'dd/mm/yyyy'); and then change the dd/mm/yyyyy thats all you need to do to change the date format once thats do go back the the page you said you edited in your post and make sure its changed back to what ever it was so as it doesnt cause any errors of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 sorry for double post plus i miss typed the file url although i am sure you would have figured it out go to /includes/languages/english.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjjj6 Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 thanks ill try that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjjj6 Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 hmm sorry..... that hasnt worked it still thinks the format is mm/dd/yyyy heres what i think is the relevant bit of my english.php file i changed what you suggested... this is just a guess but... maybe it only accepts values within a certain range? maybe thats why, even though the date is in dd/mm/yyyy it is only accepting values 1-12 for dd? Is there a way to change this? <?php /* $Id: english.php,v 1.114 2003/07/09 18:13:39 dgw_ Exp $ osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions http://www.oscommerce.com Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce Released under the GNU General Public License */ // look in your $PATH_LOCALE/locale directory for available locales // or type locale -a on the server. // Examples: // on RedHat try 'en_US' // on FreeBSD try 'en_US.ISO_8859-1' // on Windows try 'en', or 'English' @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1'); 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', '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($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4); } else { return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2); } } // if USE_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_CURRENCY is true, use the following currency, instead of the applications default currency (used when changing language) define('LANGUAGE_CURRENCY', 'USD'); // Global entries for the <html> tag define('HTML_PARAMS','dir="LTR" lang="en"'); // charset for web pages and emails define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-1'); // page title define('TITLE', 'osCommerce'); // header text in includes/header.php define('HEADER_TITLE_CREATE_ACCOUNT', 'Create an Account'); define('HEADER_TITLE_MY_ACCOUNT', 'My Account'); define('HEADER_TITLE_CART_CONTENTS', 'Cart Contents'); define('HEADER_TITLE_CHECKOUT', 'Checkout'); define('HEADER_TITLE_TOP', 'Top'); define('HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG', 'Catalog'); define('HEADER_TITLE_LOGOFF', 'Log Off'); define('HEADER_TITLE_LOGIN', 'Log In'); // footer text in includes/footer.php define('FOOTER_TEXT_REQUESTS_SINCE', 'requests since'); // text for gender define('MALE', 'Male'); define('FEMALE', 'Female'); define('MALE_ADDRESS', 'Mr.'); define('FEMALE_ADDRESS', 'Ms.'); // text for date of birth example define('DOB_FORMAT_STRING', 'dd/mm/yyyy'); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 here is a long thread that explores all aspecs of the changing date plus other UK seeting issues that may be of help to you in the long run http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=130454 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjjj6 Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 ooo thanks ill have a read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjjj6 Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 thankyou that worked great :D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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