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[VisiGod Friend VisiGodJoin date: January 2006Posts: 538Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 138 times in 18 posts]

#129687

Maybe you applied the solution for date translation, described in this thread.

But this is a shitty solution. There are much better ways to handle the date translation and I am more and more shocked in some of the ways JA codes their templates.
Although, this solution above will be hardly applied (well not impossible) on a multilanguage site, that is build with Joom!Fish in example. Than … what could we do 😉

Open index.php of the template and replace this code:

<?php
echo "<span>".date ('l')."</span>";
echo " <div>".date ('M')." ".date ('d').date ('S')."</div>";
?>


With the following:

<?php echo JHTML::_('date', date(l), JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC5')) ?>

Now open the language file of the template (en-GB.tpl_ja_teline_ii.ini or the one in your language) and the following row at the end of the file:

DATE_FORMAT_LC5=<span>%A,</span><div>%d %B %Y</div>

That’s it. Hope it is useful.

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[avekic Friend avekicJoin date: July 2007Posts: 71Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 14 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#260521

what is “language file of the template”?

(J1.013.) there is no language file of the template in this version

:confused:

[orpheus2510 Friend orpheus2510Join date: July 2007Posts: 149Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 14 times in 1 posts]

#260576

This solution is just for J1.5!

[jensl Friend jenslJoin date: March 2007Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#261277

I can’t get this to work.
When I do as explained above the template returns the string DATE_FORMAT_LC5 instead of the date. It seems not to recognize the date/language strings.

Joomla! 1.5.2

[kjellx Friend kjellxJoin date: September 2006Posts: 10Downloads:12Uploads:0 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#267555

I had the same problem as you jensl. What I did to get multilanguage date formats was to replace this from the index.php file:


<?php
echo "<span>".date ('l')."</span>";
echo " <div>".date ('M')." ".date ('d').date ('S')."</div>";
?>


with the following code for both norwegian and english date formats:


<div class="ja-day">
<?php if ($this->language=="nb-no") {
$day = date("l");
$daynum = date("j");
$month = date("F");

switch($day)
{
case "Monday": $day = "mandag"; break;
case "Tuesday": $day = "tirsdag"; break;
case "Wednesday": $day = "onsdag"; break;
case "Thursday": $day = "torsdag"; break;
case "Friday": $day = "fredag"; break;
case "Saturday": $day = "lørdag"; break;
case "Sunday": $day = "søndag"; break;
default: $day = ""; break;
}

switch($month)
{
case "January": $month = "januar"; break;
case "February": $month = "februar"; break;
case "March": $month = "mars"; break;
case "April": $month = "april"; break;
case "May": $month = "mai"; break;
case "June": $month = "juni"; break;
case "July": $month = "juli"; break;
case "August": $month = "august"; break;
case "September": $month = "september"; break;
case "October": $month = "oktober"; break;
case "November": $month = "november"; break;
case "December": $month = "desember"; break;
default: $month = ""; break;
}

echo $day . " " . $daynum .". " . $month . " " . $year;
}
?>
<?php if ($this->language=="en-gb") {
echo "<span>".date ('l')."</span>";
echo " <div>".date ('M')." ".date ('d').date ('S')."</div>";
}
?>
</div>


Now it works fine with my template.

[jensl Friend jenslJoin date: March 2007Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#267730

Wohooo! Nu funker det!

The suggestion above by kjellx fixed my problem. Thanks kjell

[gaygiorgia Friend gaygiorgiaJoin date: June 2008Posts: 218Downloads:0Uploads:7 Thanks: 15 Thanked: 15 times in 1 posts]

#267793

omfg wake up naps, a dedicated thread exists about this old solution… -.-
when i’ve time i’ll try your solution visigod 😉

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