Dates not formatted in FE

[Alan_uk]

I've defined a field Date Seen as type date
[attachment=1:2rthy5du]table date field.jpg[/attachment:2rthy5du]

It displays OK in the BE (e.g. 2010-02-14) but in the FE it is just a number
[attachment=0:2rthy5du]form date view.jpg[/attachment:2rthy5du]

Could someone please tell me how to format it in the FE.

Many thanks

[Medianomaly]

That number is actually a timestamp. You should be able to get it in the format you need by passing it through PHP's date function:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

[Alan_uk]

That number is actually a timestamp. You should be able to get it in the format you need by passing it through PHP's date function

Thanks Medianomaly. I'm using Catalog Extension so I was presuming it checked for type and converted as required. It's doing that for a URL field:

<div class="field reference">
<div class="label">Reference</div>
<div class="value">www.eagles.com</div>
</div>

but not for a date field:

<div class="field date_seen">
<div class="label">Date Seen</div>
<div class="value">1264723200</div>
</div>

catalog_simple.tpl code just seems to loop extracting labels and values:

<?php foreach ($this->entries as $entry): ?>
<div class="item<?php echo $entry['class'] ? ' '.$entry['class'] : ''; ?>">
<?php foreach ($entry['data'] as $field=>$data): ?>
<?php if (!in_array($field, array('catalog_name','parentJumpTo'))): ?>
<div class="field <?php echo $field; ?>">
<div class="label"><?php echo $data['label']; ?></div>
<div class="value"><?php echo $data['value']; ?></div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

So where is $data set? I would hazard a guess that the code is in ModuleCatalog.php but I can't see where.

[Medianomaly]

This is a good resource for working with Catalog templates:
http://dev.typolight.org/wiki/typolight ... alsCatalog

Among other things, it will show you how to "get to" the variables you need (including your date).

[thyon]

you don't need that, of course DATE formatting is included, you just didn't click the format checkbox to open up the format section, selected the format type as [date] and enter the date format string, e.g. Y-m-d.

[Alan_uk]

Brilliant!

Thanks thyon. I thought that only impacted the BE but I see it also effects the FE.

I did lookup sprintf but that was showing things like %02d/%02d/%02d which didn't work when Y-m-d is so simple!

Now to solve my other date problem with the form input.

[Alan_uk]

This is a good resource for working with Catalog templates:
http://dev.typolight.org/wiki/typolight ... alsCatalog

Among other things, it will show you how to "get to" the variables you need (including your date).

Thanks Medianomaly. Although thyon has given me a simpler solution that resource will enable me to understand how Catalog works.