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#178366

I’m using the JA Bulletin extension in the Joomla 2.5 version of Cloris. It currently displays the Last Modified date, but I need it to display the article Created or Published date instead.

I’m pretty certain I’ve isolated what code I need to tweak:

public_html/modules/mod_jabulletin/helper.php

Lines 168-169:
[PHP] if ($showdate) {
$item->date = $item->modified == null || $item->modified == “” || $item->modified == “0000-00-00 00:00:00” ? $item->created : $item->modified;[/PHP]

But I’m not sure how to write the necessary code. Can anyone suggest some syntax?

Thanks in advance.

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#458392

I figured it out myself. What’s needed is an additional line of code, not a change to that existing line. I grabbed the code snippet from the helper.php file in JA Sidenews, which does sort by created by dates. I was also wrong about where to add this additional piece of code. I think lines 168-169 belong to the portion of code pertaining to K2 content, I needed to change content pulled from Joomla! articles.

So here’s what to do, within public_html/modules/mod_jabulletin/helper.php go to lines 425-427. You should see the exact same line of code as mentioned in my previous post.

Now above that line of code, add this:

[PHP] $item->modified =($item->modified != ” && $item->modified != ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’) ? $item->created : $item->created;
[/PHP]

So the whole thing should look like, starting from line 420:

[PHP] $item->introtext = JHtml::_(‘content.prepare’, $item->introtext);
$item->text = htmlspecialchars ( $item->title );

$item->modified =($item->modified != ” && $item->modified != ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’) ? $item->created : $item->created;

if ($showdate) {
$item->date = $item->modified == null||$item->modified==””||$item->modified==”0000-00-00 00:00:00″ ? $item->created : $item->modified;
}
$item->image = ”;
[/PHP]

That seemed to do the trick.

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