By jim0203 on

I want to theme the text that appears on every node and says something like "Submitted by Jim on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 23:00". This seems to be produced by the following code in node.tpl.php:

if ($submitted):

print $submitted;

endif;

So, how do I go about theming this output? What I would like to do first is remove the part that says who submitted the node, and just show the date it was submitted - not the time.

Any suggestions?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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roopletheme commented

For D5, one way is to replace that code in node.tpl.php with something like this:

  if ($submitted): 
    print format_date($node->created, 'custom', 'M j Y');
  endif

Using D6, the more elegant method would be to override theme_node_submitted.

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ktleow commented

I use this code for Drupal 6 to print Submitted by admin on Saturday, 30 August, 2008 - 13:30

<span class="submitted">Submitted by <?php print $name ?> on <?php print format_date($node->created, 'custom', 'l, j F, Y - H:i'); ?></span>

Rob T’s picture

Rob T commented

This comes in handy.

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jim0203 commented

Thanks to both of you; those solutions work great.

JohnnyHa’s picture

JohnnyHa commented

Is there any list somewhere that lists the variables you suggested here ? This solution is really valuable for theming.
Like what if i wanted to theme the title of a node and its content ? Not $content because that prints everything. I want to control every aspect.

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ktleow commented

Yes there is a way to print out all the values in an easy way without PHP knowledge.
Download and use the Content Templates module.

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JohnnyHa commented

Exactly what i was looking for thanks !

But i find it weird that this isnt a part of Drupal by default. No wonder why most Drupal sites look alike when you cant control the output 100% by default.

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ktleow commented

Err, once you got those values right, you dont need Content templates anymore.
Basically those values are from Drupal itself.
You can even use print_r($node); for node values and print_r($block); for block values, I THINK?

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avangelist commented

I want to pull the entire content of the user profile out on the end of story nodes based on the user.

So really just want a complete array list of what comes out of $submitted.

How do I find out what that array contains with Devel?
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jim0203 commented

Have you got the theme developer part of devel activated? It's only in D6, but it should do what you're looking for.