Postnote -Large Date - Featured Article - J2.56

Hi,

I have seen several posts wishing to delete the large date in the first featured article. Is there a way to replace the article 'created' date with a large 'today's' system date?

Thanks

Yes, of course there is a way to do it

Please open files:

html/com_content/category/blog_item.php
html/com_content/featured/default_item.php

and in the both files please replace:

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$this->item->created

to:

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$this->item->publish_up

in the following fragment:

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<?php if ($params->get('show_create_date')) : ?>
   <div class="gkArticleTools">
      <span class="gkCreateDateDay">
      <?php echo JHTML::_('date', $this->item->created, 'd'); ?>
      </span>
      <span class="gkCreateDateMonth">
      <?php echo JHTML::_('date',$this->item->created, 'F'); ?>
      </span>
   </div>
<?php endif; ?>


Thanks for the prompt response - brilliant.

Sorry to be a dummy, but I have worked through my publichtml area and can find similarly named files, but not the same.

Could you tell me where they will be please?

Thanks again

Ian

The mentioned files:

html/com_content/category/blog_item.php
html/com_content/featured/default_item.php

are placed in the template directory: templates/gk_postnote/

so it is:

templates/gk_postnote/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php
templates/gk_postnote/html/com_content/featured/default_item.php

Hi, Dziudek

I think we may be confused. The publish_up parameter now means that the article displays the date it was published. What I was looking to do is to display the current date. By that I mean it will display 29 Aug today and 30 Aug tomorrow etc. - without me making any changes to the site.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Ian

Wait a moment - you want to show always the current date in the date block? Or I misunderstand?

That is correct.

Ian

So please try replace:

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$this->item->publish_up

with:

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time()

Sorted - thank you!

Ian