Function userdate: I can't format date string

Function userdate: I can't format date string

Quincy Weston གིས-
Number of replies: 3

Hi moodlers....

I'm building a block using the "$USER-> lastlogin" container, among others. I'm using the following code to format its content:

'<div>'.get_string('lastlogin').'<br>'.userdate($USER->lastlogin).'</div>'

This displays the date in a very long format, example: Sábado, 26 de julio de 2008, 01:38 (My server locale configuration is es_utf8).

I need a shorter format,  example: Sáb, 26 de jul de 2008, 01:38 (like the forums lastpost field). Please, What are the format options that I must use in the userdate function? Thanks...

QW

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Re: Function userdate: I can't format date string

Gary Anderson གིས-
Qwincy:

You can see the function definition for userdate in the file /lib/moodlelib.php.

The second argument to the command allows you to specify the formatting. Note that it uses the arguments from the php command strftime which you can find at http://us.php.net/strftime.

You may also want to do a file search for the userdate function to see how it is being used in other parts of the code.

Good luck,

--Gary
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Re: Function userdate: I can't format date string

Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) གིས-
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Yup, that second parameter specifies the "strftime" format.

Also, be noted that there are a bunch of "standard" date and time formats predefined in the lanconfig.php files (inside each lang/xx directory).

And those are the preferred ones to be used within Moodle, with something like:

userdate($time_to_format, get_string('strftimeXXX'));

instead of using "harcoded" formats. The main advantage of this: your formatted date will we showed properly in any language (respecting their particularities).

Ciao དགའ་འཛུམ་

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Re: Function userdate: I can't format date string

Quincy Weston གིས-

Thank you very much Stronk7....

I used:

<div>'.get_string('lastlogin').'<br>'.userdate($USER->lastlogin, get_string('strftimerecentfull')).'</div>'

and works fine approve

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