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Display date as text in pagelist

Permalink 1 user found helpful April 02, 2015 at 6:09 AM

Hello,

Does anyone know how to display the month as text in a pagelist block?
See attached file.

Thanks you!

MrKDilkington replied on Apr 2, 2015 at 8:34 am Permalink Reply 1 Attachment

Hi restyles,

I recreated the example from the screenshot you attached.

You can use the code to make a custom block template for the page list.

- copy view.php
concrete\blocks\page_list\view.php
- copy it to (create the folders if they aren't there)
application\blocks\page_list\templates
- rename the file to day_month.php

Add some space at line 85 and then paste this code into day_month.php at line 86.
- it should look like this:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3e8c9498efbf51d05083#file-day_mont...

<?php
//http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php...
//http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php... - date formats
$date_day_number = date_create($date);
$date_day_number = date_format($date_day_number, 'd');
$date_month_text = date_create($date);
$date_month_text = strtoupper(date_format($date_month_text, 'M'));
?>
<style>
    .day_date_month {
        width: 42px;
        text-align: center;
    }
    .day_date_month .day {
        font-weight: bold;

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<?php
//http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php...
//http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php... - date formats
 
$date_day_number = date_create($date);
$date_day_number = date_format($date_day_number, 'd');
 
$date_month_text = date_create($date);
$date_month_text = strtoupper(date_format($date_month_text, 'M'));
?>
<style>
    .day_date_month {
        width: 42px;
        text-align: center;
    }
    .day_date_month .day {
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 26px;
        margin-bottom: -4px;
    }
    .day_date_month .month {
        color: purple;
        font-size: 14px;
    }
</style>
<div class="day_date_month">
    <p class="day"><?php echo $date_day_number; ?></p>
    <p class="month"><?php echo $date_month_text; ?></p>
</div>

I attached a screenshot of what the code prints to the page.

You can experiment with the formatting and replace the existing date with it.
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3e8c9498efbf51d05083#file-day_mont...

restyles replied on Apr 4, 2015 at 10:33 am Permalink Reply

Hi KD ilkington,

Thanks for your reply and clear description!
Will try it out and will update you :)

Thanks again! Happy easter!

MrKDilkington replied on Mar 2, 2018 at 10:37 pm Permalink Best Answer Reply

An alternative is using the core date helper to format the dates.

In the previous code example:
- find this code

$date_day_number = date_create($date);
$date_day_number = date_format($date_day_number, 'd');
$date_month_text = date_create($date);
$date_month_text = strtoupper(date_format($date_month_text, 'M'));

- replace with this code

$date_month_text = strtoupper($dh->formatCustom('M', $page->getCollectionDatePublic()));
$date_day_number = $dh->formatCustom('d', $page->getCollectionDatePublic());

JonRimmer replied on Mar 2, 2018 at 2:51 pm Permalink Reply

Really helpful post, saved me hours

Thank you

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