Hi,

I am hoping that someone here will be able to help me with this problem. Please bear in mind that I am not a PHP coder, I know enough to be dangerous so please treat me as a noob.

Right, my problem is that I have bought a shopping cart to use in the UK under the impression that it was able to be used internationally. The company have obviously overlooked the fact that in the UK we format the dates dd/mm/yyyy and not mm/dd/yyyy. So many of my customers will get confused if they see the date in this format.

What I am after is a way to change the way that the dates are FORMATTED everywhere in the site, I do not care about how they are stored in the database I just want them to be shown correctly.

I have seen loads of references to the date in the scripts with m/d/y in them somewhere but I do not think it's as easy as just changing this around though.

If anyone knows of a way to do this, please let me know.
TIA
Simon

Where the date is outputted to the browser, you will need to reformat it.

It is hard to say the correct method without seeing the code, but a standard method would be to have the date brought into a variable and format it that way:

$data = YOUR SQL QUERY
$date = date("d m Y ",strtotime($data[date]));

I think you will be best off going back to the authors of the script. There will know where and how to do this.

Thanks,

I sort of understand what you are saying, but not sure how to implement it in my case. You might understand what their support have told me at their forums, I don't really!

I think it's probably something that I will have to get someone who knows what they are talking about to have a look!

Simon

tress, we must have posted at the same time. I have gone back to the authors, see reply below yours. But they are very vague with their response and it seems to me like it is something they will want to charge me to do. I wouldn't mind paying for them to do it if I have to (although I don't think I should have to as it's supposed to be internation-friendly!), the trouble is they take so long, I requested a quote from them in Dec/Jan and only received a quote a week or so ago and still no luck with getting it done!

That really sucks, they should do this free of charge or at least make it an option in the script. Not as if it's a big change. Do a global search in their files for date, gmdate & date_format. Someone will be able to help more once we know which date formatting function they're using.

It is not a difficult task, looking at the scripts.

Yes, I think it should have really been an option in the script from the start considering some of the other features they have got in it. It's a really great cart but little problems like this really let it down.

Gaffer is having a look for me

Simon