Weird Date Display in CCK / Contemplate

Posted by newbstah on February 13, 2008 at 10:39am

Hi There -

Am having difficulty with theming a date. I've searched for some time and people don't seem to be having this problem. I'm trying to get it to just print out normally, like a normal date. My client wants it in MM/YY. First I need to get it to just print out.

In CCK, the node has a date field that's a dropdown. When I go into Contemplate variables, I get the following:

$node->field_event_date (array)

    $node->field_event_date[0] (array)

        $node->field_event_date[0]['value'] **
            2008-02-13T00:00:00 

Trying to break out the date using the array thusly yields: (the result is after the statement)
<?php print check_plain($node->field_event_date[0]['value']) ?> yields: 2008-02-13T00:00:00
<?php print check_plain($node->field_event_date[0]['value']['mon']) ?> yields: 2 <-----Month with no '0' in front.
<?php print check_plain($node->field_event_date[0]['value']['year']) ?> yields: 2<----- ???Month with no '0' in front, not year. Okay let's try another method.

So then I tried using the format_date function:

<?php
$time = check_plain($node-> field_event_date[0]['value']);?>

<?php print $time; ?> yields: 2008-02-13T00:00:00
<?php print format_date($time, 'custom', 'm\/y' ); ?> yields: 12/69 <-----right format!
<?php print format_date($time); ?> yields: Wed, 12/31/1969 - 19:33
<?php print format_date($time, 'small'); ?> yields: 12/31/1969 - 19:33
<?php print format_date($time, 'medium'); ?> yields: Wed, 12/31/1969 - 19:33
<?php print format_date($time, 'large'); ?> yields: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 - 19:33

Huh? Where did Drupal get the notion of Dec 31, 1969? More to the point, how do I get Drupal to recognize this date and format it?

I'm at a loss. I'll take any suggestions on how to go about this.

Comments

Anyone?

Posted by newbstah on February 20, 2008 at 3:37am

Anyone?

I could be wrong, but

Posted by criznach on February 20, 2008 at 7:17am

I could be wrong, but format_date expects a timestamp, but it looks like the 'value' attribute is not one.

Have you looked here:
http://drupal.org/node/123181

http://www.trailheadinteractive.com

You're right, and I have...

Posted by newbstah on February 23, 2008 at 8:21am

You're right, but I had to try the format_date function. It looked so promising. Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately the link you sent me to is where I got the idea for my first approach - that and a few other links I've run into. Anyone else have any ideas? It's a straight CCK date field. If there's any way that my question isn't giving you enough data, please let me know.