Breaking up time and date info for themeing.

[jocwebsites]

I searched and found a few threads but I haven’t been able to work out exactly how this works. On the list.php file which I’ve copied over to my theme I need to style the date and time different, and also print the day of the week the event will be on.

So, currently in this file there’s

What do I change to show the different broken up parts of this so I can style and place them in different areas?

Cheers,
Dan

[Barry]

Hi Dan: I can’t see the code you posted – unfortunately the forum eats up code and so it’s best to share via Pastebin, Gist or a similar service.

In list view the date/time information is typically generated by the following line of code within the list/single-event.php template:

<?php echo tribe_events_event_schedule_details() ?>

If you don’t want to use this and the formatting options provided by the tribe_events_event_schedule_details_formatting filter aren’t sufficient to meet your needs you could simply remove that line and replace it with your own code that produces the date information in whatever form you need.

Please do check out our Themer’s Guide if you haven’t already done so (link over on the right under Useful Resources). Does that help?

[jocwebsites]

Hey Barry,

Thanks, this does help. The code you posted is what I was trying to post. I looked through the themers guide but couldnt find the code to produce the specific information like date, day and time. Is that available there and I just missed it? I’ll have another look but if you know offhand that’d be helpful.

Cheers,
Dan

[Barry]

Hi Dan:

You mean so you can build up your own replacement? It probably is not the very easiest thing to find, but our technical docs cover the functions you will want to use, such as tribe_get_start_date().

For instance, if you wanted to wrap the date, month and year in separate span elements you might try something like this which would let you target individual components from your stylesheet, etc.

[jocwebsites]

Hey Barry,

That’s pretty much it exactly, thanks so much. Im going to look through the docs for the start and end time as well, but if someone happens to know them off-hand, let me know, I’d appreciate it.

Cheers,

[jocwebsites]

Hey,

Hah, nevermind, just realized the same php time and date formats bring up the time. 🙂

[Barry]

Yes – both tribe_get_start_date() and tribe_get_end_date() use the standard PHP syntax for date formats – sorry for not making that clearer.

It sounds like you’re on track now however and so I’ll go ahead and close this thread. If there is anything else we can help with please do go ahead and and create new threads as needed.

Thanks!

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