Multi-lingual support for Date Formatter widget

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aicos Reply #1, 16 years, 11 months ago

Hi,

I’ve been looking for an easy way of getting the Date Formatter widget (for TVs) to display in my local locale but I can’t seem to find a good solution.

If there isn’t, I was thinking I could maybe do a snippet that reads the date TV and outputs the date in the correct locale. Can anyone offer any advice on this?

Thanks

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testIt Reply #2, 16 years, 8 months ago

Did you finally find a solution or not ?

Like this it looks like there’s no community around ModX wich is a bit scary.
Please update your thread dudes.

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aicos Reply #3, 16 years, 8 months ago

Yeah, sorry. I guess I should have followed up on this.

I ended up writing some code that reads the TV value and re-orders the date so that strtotime() could be used:

  $year = substr($event_date,6,4);
  $month = substr($event_date,3,2);
  $day = substr($event_date,0,2);
  $time = substr($event_date,11,8);

  $widget_date = strtotime($year . '-' . $month . '-' . $day . ' ' . $time); // ...and Bob's your uncle!

The TV’s value gets put into $event_date by a function I wrote myself as couldn’t get the MODx function to work. But it does work (when I tried it again later).

Hope that helps.