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[akwasi_c Friend akwasi_cJoin date: August 2008Posts: 124Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 8 times in 1 posts]

#137073

Is there anyway to include date for the “Latest” module, so that when it shows up at the front a heading may look like this;
1/13/09: Title of the article
1/12/09: Joomlart is the best

It would be better even if the date stamp is done once at the first article of the day, so that the subsequent titles wont have the stamp example
1/13/09: Man on moon
: Man on earth
: Man on sune
1/12/09: Woman on Jupiter

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#286296

I think your first suggestion would be fairly easy. You’d just call the articles creation date and place it in front of the title in the Latest mod.

I think the second one would be quiet difficult though (for a non PHPer like me anyway) and would require a bigger re-write of the mod_latest.

I’ll have a stab at the first method tomorrow.

Good idea BTW!

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#286297

there is a new module at joomla extesnions directory that does this with the date

you should be able to find it with a quick search there

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1. scotty

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#286350

Actually I just found the instructions in the Joomla Docs…

http://docs.joomla.org/Latest_News_module_with_date

[akwasi_c Friend akwasi_cJoin date: August 2008Posts: 124Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 8 times in 1 posts]

#286382

Good work scotty, but did you actually got it to work

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#286385

No, I didn’t test it. Does it not work?

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#286390

Ahh lol, there is a mistake in it. It tells you to change text from A to B but it should be from B to A.

Also it adds the date on a new line after the headline but you want it first don’t you?

Ok so do the first part in helper.php, that part is right, and then in default.php do this…
Find…
[php]<a href=”<?php echo $item->link; ?>” class=”latestnews<?php echo $params->get(‘moduleclass_sfx’); ?>”>
<?php echo $item->text; ?></a>[/php]and change to…

[php]<a href=”<?php echo $item->link; ?>” class=”latestnews<?php echo $params->get(‘moduleclass_sfx’); ?>”>
<?php echo $item->creationdate .’ – ‘.$item->text; ?></a>[/php]This will give you a latest mod like…

• 1/12/09 – News Title 1
• 1/6/09 – News Title 2
• 12/16/08 – News Title 3
• 12/14/08 – News Title 4

Depending on your date format.

This is now fixed on the Joomla Docs page also

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