Shorten day name to 3 letters

[spirelli]

Hi, I would like to shorten the day names in the event teaser to 3 letters, e.g. Sun instead of Sunday.

The event_teaser.html5 template has this code to output the day:

<?php echo $this->firstDay; ?>

Could someone let me know what to do to shorten the day names? Many thanks.

[Andreas]

You can try to do it with your system/langconfig.php

$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS'][0] = 'Sonntag';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS'][1] = 'Montag';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS'][2] = 'Dienstag';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS'][3] = 'Mittwoch';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS'][4] = 'Donnerstag';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS'][5] = 'Freitag';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS'][6] = 'Samstag'; 

Or with PHP in your template

<?php echo substr($this->firstDay, 0, 3); ?>

http://de1.php.net/manual/de/function.substr.php

[lucina]

Or use the appropriate PHP function:

<span class="weekday"><?php echo $this->parseDate("D", $this->startDate); ?></span> 
...

[Andreas]

Or use the appropriate PHP function:

Ok this works in english but not e.g. for german. That depends on the fact that PHP date() only outputs in english and Contao method Date::parse() transforms it to other languages.

If you have a language that didn't output the desired length you have to modify this:

$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS_SHORT'][0] = 'So';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS_SHORT'][1] = 'Mo';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS_SHORT'][2] = 'Di';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS_SHORT'][3] = 'Mi';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS_SHORT'][4] = 'Do';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS_SHORT'][5] = 'Fr';
$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['DAYS_SHORT'][6] = 'Sa'; 

New method for $this->parseDate() is Date::parse().