Handling date profile fields

Last updated August 27, 2009. Created by freehunter on July 26, 2006.
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Adding dates to your custom profile.

This has only been tested with 4.7.0 and 5.3

This module adds a birthday into the custom profile, but you can easily customize it to add any date, such as date of death for a obituary (for a famous actor's profile maybe). You must have made a template.php already. This code should be added to your user_profile.tlp.php file.

<div class="fields"><b>Birthday:</b> <?php print $user->profile_birthday['month']."/".$user->profile_birthday['day']."/".$user->profile_birthday['year'];?>

Note that you will have to customize the profile_birthday to whatever your settings are in admin/settings/profile. To change the date layout, just move the month, day, and year around, like so:

<div class="fields"><b>Birthday:</b> <?php print $user->profile_birthday['year']."/".$user->profile_birthday['month']."/".$user->profile_birthday['day'];?>

Convert date array to date variable

Here's a simple function that will convert the profile date array to a date variable. Maybe a little clunky but you get the point:

<?php
function convert_profile_date($profile_date_ar)  {

       // takes a profile date array and converts it to a date variable.

    $output = mktime(0, 0, 0, $profile_date_ar['month'], $profile_date_ar['day'], $profile_date_ar['year']);
    return $output;

}
?>

Then you can pass the results to the php date function and format any way you want:

<?php
$converted_date = convert_profile_date($user->profile_birthday);
print date('F j, Y', $converted_date);
?>

Comments

D6 error with convert_profile_date()

Posted by arilikeairy on June 4, 2009 at 10:15pm

Received this error when I tried to put that last snippet into Drupal 6.8:

Call to undefined function convert_profile_date()

Did you enable a module with the invoked function?

Posted by victorkane on June 9, 2009 at 4:55pm

It doesn't come with Drupal, you have to add it in.

I have successfully used the snippet in D6 (latest release 6.12).

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

Great Script

Posted by ianhoar on October 22, 2009 at 3:43am

Love the script, I did a small change though so I can use one function in template files.

<?php
function convert_profile_date($profile_date_ar, $formate)  {
    // takes a profile date array and converts it to a date variable.
    $output = mktime(0, 0, 0, $profile_date_ar['month'], $profile_date_ar['day'], $profile_date_ar['year']);
    $output = date($formate, $output);
    return $output;
}
?>

This lets you pass your date format to the convert_profile_date function. Now you can use for example:

<?php
    convert_profile_date($account->profile_date_of_birth, 'F j, Y');
?>

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for profile and

Posted by sadist on November 11, 2009 at 7:07am

for profile and birthdays.module, a user can hide their birth date from their profile or just hide the year.

if i use this snippets, how can i make used of that functions? it will display the whole date whether or not the user set it to hide.