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#1 2009-06-17 15:31:05

Germaris
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From: Montreal, QC Canada
Registered: 2005-11-12
Posts: 44
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Get the right language for the date?

Hi there!

My blog is entirely edited in French.
How could I get the date in French?

Thanks in advance for the tip!

Cheers!


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#2 2009-06-17 15:46:35

els
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From: The Netherlands
Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: Get the right language for the date?

If you have installed French and made it your active language (Admin > Preferences > Language) you should get dates in French.

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#3 2009-06-17 16:33:05

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 4,533
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Re: Get the right language for the date?

Els wrote:

If you have installed French and made it your active language (Admin > Preferences > Language) you should get dates in French.

…if you have any French locales installed on the server.

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#4 2009-06-17 16:52:30

Germaris
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From: Montreal, QC Canada
Registered: 2005-11-12
Posts: 44
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Re: Get the right language for the date?

Thanks for your replies!

Question is how to have these French locales installed?
I host my blog on my own computer (Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.5.7)

Regards,

Gerard


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#5 2009-06-18 09:35:49

gerhard01
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Registered: 2006-12-07
Posts: 108

Re: Get the right language for the date?

Els wrote:

If you have installed French and made it your active language (Admin > Preferences > Language) you should get dates in French.

In my case, that did not work either. This snippet did the trick to display German date format instead of the standard English one:

<txp:php>
global $locale;
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE');
echo posted(array('format' => '%d. %B %Y'));
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
</txp:php>

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#6 2009-06-18 10:28:52

Germaris
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From: Montreal, QC Canada
Registered: 2005-11-12
Posts: 44
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Re: Get the right language for the date?

Thanks for the code!

But, excuse the newbie, how do I use it?
Where does it take place ?

Cheers!


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#7 2009-06-18 12:23:22

gerhard01
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Registered: 2006-12-07
Posts: 108

Re: Get the right language for the date?

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#8 2009-06-18 12:29:08

uli
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From: Cologne
Registered: 2006-08-15
Posts: 4,319

Re: Get the right language for the date?

You put this where the date shall appear, as a replacement for the posted tag. Use these to format the display and replace posted on line 4 by modified if you actually wanted to use the modified tag.


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#9 2009-06-18 16:28:39

Germaris
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From: Montreal, QC Canada
Registered: 2005-11-12
Posts: 44
Website

Re: Get the right language for the date?

Sorry if I seem so dumb to all of you but I didn’t find the file to be modified with:

<txp:php>
global $locale;
setlocale(LC_ALL, ‘fr_FR’);
echo posted(array(‘format’ => ‘%d. %B %Y’));
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
</txp:php>

Where does the date shell appears?


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#10 2009-06-18 18:46:44

gerhard01
Plugin Author
Registered: 2006-12-07
Posts: 108

Re: Get the right language for the date?

As uli has already pointed out, replace the <txp:posted /> tag by the php snippet in your (article) form (= what you denoted as “file”). Forms are accessible via Presentation > Forms in the TXP admin interface

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#11 2009-06-18 19:40:06

uli
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From: Cologne
Registered: 2006-08-15
Posts: 4,319

Re: Get the right language for the date?

And a cool tool to find all of the txp:posted or txp:modified tags in all of your forms (and pages) is smd_where_used, a plugin that’s installed via Administration > Plugins


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#12 2009-06-19 02:44:40

Germaris
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From: Montreal, QC Canada
Registered: 2005-11-12
Posts: 44
Website

Re: Get the right language for the date?

Wow! So simple…
(and so silly of me!)
Thank you “gerhard01” for the explanation.

“uli”, I’ll have a look at this plug-in tomorrow and give you some feedback.
Thank you too for your help!

Cheers to both of you!


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#13 2009-06-20 19:08:21

Germaris
Member
From: Montreal, QC Canada
Registered: 2005-11-12
Posts: 44
Website

Re: Get the right language for the date?

smd_where_used is great!
Thanks!


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#14 2009-06-20 21:33:27

uli
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From: Cologne
Registered: 2006-08-15
Posts: 4,319

Re: Get the right language for the date?

Yup! But tell Stef! :)


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