Show todays date

**gonewild** · 11 Jan 2007, 04:06 AM

I want to have a daily special headed with todays date.

Now the specials box has this line;

define('TABLE_HEADING_SPECIALS_INDEX', 'Daily Special For %s');

It displays as "Daily Special For January"

I want it to be "Daily special for (todays date)"

What do I need to change "%s" to to show todays date?

thanks.

**kobra** · 11 Jan 2007, 04:50 AM

You leave this as is but edit this file & line /includes/modules/specials_index.php Find this Line:

Code:

$title = '<h2 class="centerBoxHeading">' . sprintf(TABLE_HEADING_SPECIALS_INDEX, strftime('%B')) . '</h2>';

Assuming you want month/day/year change to:

Code:

$title = '<h2 class="centerBoxHeading">' . sprintf(TABLE_HEADING_SPECIALS_INDEX, strftime(
'%m/%d/%Y')) . '</h2>';

This should get you the month day and year...you can leave out what you do not want and/or add others like the hour /min/sec

**kobra** · 11 Jan 2007, 05:04 AM

NEWS FLASH!!! Alternatively:

Code:

define('TABLE_HEADING_SPECIALS_INDEX', 'Daily Special For' . date('D M d Y));

**kobra** · 11 Jan 2007, 05:30 AM

CORRECTION:

Code:

define('TABLE_HEADING_SPECIALS_INDEX', 'Daily Special For' . date('D M d Y'));

Credit to "Ajeh"

**gonewild** · 11 Jan 2007, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by kobra

You leave this as is but edit this file & line /includes/modules/specials_index.php Find this Line:

Code:

$title = '<h2 class="centerBoxHeading">' . sprintf(TABLE_HEADING_SPECIALS_INDEX, strftime('%B')) . '</h2>';

Assuming you want month/day/year change to:

Code:

$title = '<h2 class="centerBoxHeading">' . sprintf(TABLE_HEADING_SPECIALS_INDEX, strftime(
'%m/%d/%Y')) . '</h2>';

This should get you the month day and year...you can leave out what you do not want and/or add others like the hour /min/sec

Thanks, that got the date displayed.
It displays the date as 01/10/07.
How can I change it to Jan/10/2007 or better yet January 10, 2007?
I tried changeing %m to %M but that did not work.

**gonewild** · 11 Jan 2007, 05:54 AM

OK, the second line worked the best, but both worked.
In case someone else has the same question I used this line in english.php

define('TABLE_HEADING_SPECIALS_INDEX', 'Daily Special for ' . date('F d, Y'));

It displays the date as January 10, 2007.

Thanks Kobra and Ajeh!