I want Different date formats showing (in widget and full)

[Suzan]

Hi there, I want it the widget shwoing the date as D j M,Y but in the list view and the singel event view the start date as l j F,Y (eg Wednesday 23 February, 2012) After several hours trying still not found how & where to set it. It now only takes the one setting ( I cahnged somewhere but where?)

[Rob]

Hi Suzan. Thanks for the note; not sure I entirely understand your issue, have you changed the time/date settings under Settings -> General ? WordPress has some documentation along these lines that may help you out: http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time. Let me know if I’ve misunderstood the request here and I can adjust my response as needed.

[Suzan]

Hi Rob.
Yep the WordPress date settings are oke, but for events i want different date views.
It is that i want Eventmanager to show the date in the widget as D j M,Y (Fri 23 feb-2012) and in the biglist/eventpage view as l j F,Y (Friday 23 Februari -2012)
So i need to change this somewhere in the phpfiles of the eventmanager, but don;t know i which php document and where …. (I have the pro)

[Rob]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for confirming. I’m not sure how possible this is or what it’d entail, but let me see if our dev Jonah has any ideas when he hits the forum next. If he does he’ll respond accordingly.

[Jonah]

Hi Susan, you should be able to do this by simply overriding the widget template located in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-pro/views/events-advanced-list-load-widget-display.php – place a duplicate copy of that in an ‘events’ folder in your theme.

Then on line 46 you can find the tribe_get_start_date() function where you can pass the argument for your date format. And if you want to change the end date look at line 53 for the tribe_get_end_date() function.

I hope that helps but let me know if you have any other questions.

Regards,
Jonah

[Suzan]

Hi Jonah, wow great it works! But it doesn’t work 😉
What works is the widget wants to read the copied file in the new events folder but i did something wrong in the php so it gives me a fatal error on line 49 …
I tried some trials and errors where to put the way i want to show the date like
e.g. Friday 23 Februari -2012 but … nope…

I am not that smart with php can you maybe provide me the exact place and code i need to change (copy past)

Or even easier 😉 maybe i can change it in another file to show it the long way (Friday 23 Februari -2012) in the eventlist? (& if so, : where & what exactly?)

[Jonah]

Hi Suzan,

Here is what you would want to change it to:

echo tribe_get_start_date( $post->ID, $start, 'l j F,Y' );


Does that work?

[javier]

Hi Suzan and Jonah!
I tryed that solution, just with this: ‘d/M/Y’:
echo tribe_get_start_date( $post->ID, $start, ‘d/M/Y’ );
But nothing change in the widget… Any observation or change to make it work? 🙂

[Jonah]

Hi Javier,

What file did you change and where was the file located?

Cheers,
Jonah

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