Date Format for Product Availability

[jorsara]

Hello All,

Althought my date format in english.php in admin and catalog side seems to be set to US english properly, it shows in a day, month, and year format on the product when I set the availability date. For example June 15, 2010. It acutally shows; "This product will be in stock on Tuesday 15 June, 2010."

Can anyone explain how to correct this please? Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Jorsara

[Ajeh]

This is using a function to set the date display from the template file:

/includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php

Line #209 : <p id="productDateAvailable" class="productGeneral centeredContent"><?php echo sprintf(TEXT_DATE_AVAILABLE, zen_date_long($products_date_available)); ?></p>

[jorsara]

Thank you for the reply.

When I change the format of the following;
if ($products_date_available > date('Y-m-d H:i:s')) { to if ($products_date_available > date('Y-d-m H:i:s')) { the message disappear. Is there a way to make it work to show the proper date format in the message as such; " This product will be available on May 12 2010 instead of " This product will be in stock on Wednesday 12 May, 2010." ?

Thank you.

[stevesh]

You would edit the TEXT_DATE_AVAILABLE define in includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/product_info.php

[Ajeh]

Actually, if you look at the way the date is pulled in, the date is actually:
$products_date_available

Then, that date is processed by a function to give the current display:
zen_date_long($products_date_available)

You can processes that date:
$products_date_available

in another manner or check the functions that work on dates ...

Looking in the file:
/includes/functions/functions_general.php

and searching on:
date

will show you several functions built into Zen Cart ... and you can always use your own ...

The constant:
TEXT_DATE_AVAILABLE

is just bringing in the "text" and placing the "date" on the end of it ...

[jorsara]

Thank you Steve for the info.

[jorsara]

Ajeh,

Thank you for the information. However, I still don't know how to change the date so The American People can understand it properly. In the file /includes/functions/functions_general.php there are number of formats that needs to be edited and I honstly don't know how. I apologize for my ignorance.
These are the information I see. Where exactly can I change them to have it correctly display, for instance April 15, 2010 and not the other way around?
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// Output a raw date string in the selected locale date format

// $raw_date needs to be in this format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

function zen_date_long($raw_date) {

if ( ($raw_date == '0001-01-01 00:00:00') || ($raw_date == '') ) return false;



$year = (int)substr($raw_date, 0, 4); What do these numbers mean?

$month = (int)substr($raw_date, 5, 2);

$day = (int)substr($raw_date, 8, 2);

$hour = (int)substr($raw_date, 11, 2);

$minute = (int)substr($raw_date, 14, 2);

$second = (int)substr($raw_date, 17, 2);


Thank you.

[Ajeh]

If you look in that function, you will see the define for:
DATE_FORMAT_LONG

If you peek at your language file you will find where that is defined ...

Using your templates and overrides for your language file, you can adjut the definition for the define for:
DATE_FORMAT_LONG

[jorsara]

Okay, this is what I see in the function_general.php

return strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG, mktime($hour,$minute,$second,$month,$day,$year));

now, are you talking about this file? where I need to change teh format?

/public_html/includes/languages/english/CUSTOM

If not, where exactly is the file in the languages where I need to change the "define"?

Thank you again.

[jorsara]

Hello Ajeh,

disregard the last update. I finally figured it. It was in the english.php and I just reversed the %b - %B to %B %d as follow;

define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %B %d, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()

It is displaying them correctly now.

Thank you again.