Re: Simple Addition to Time Helper

D'OH! I knew there was something simple I wasn't seeing! Thanks for
sharing!

On Oct 24, 4:12 pm, teknoid <teknoid.cake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $time->format(); handles all that quite nicely
>
> On Oct 23, 1:10 pm, rgreenphotodesign <rgr...@rgreenphotography.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Forgive me if I've duplicated something that has already been stated
> > in my first post on the group.
>
> > I had a need and design to take a DATE data type and display it with
> > the niceShort helper. It worked with the exception of showing all
> > zeros for the time.
>
> > I added to helper:
>
> >  * Returns a nicely formatted date string for given Date string.
> >  *
> >  * @param string $dateString Date string or Unix timestamp
> >  * @param int $userOffset User's offset from GMT (in hours)
> >  * @return string Formatted date string
> >  */
> >         function niceDate($dateString = null, $userOffset = null) {
> >                 if ($dateString != null) {
> >                         $date = $this->fromString($dateString, $userOffset);
> >                 } else {
> >                         $date = time();
> >                 }
>
> >                 $ret = date("D, M jS Y", $date);
> >                 return $this->output($ret);
> >         }
> > /**
>
> > Now 2008-10-31
> > Gets displayed as Fri, Oct 31st 2008
>
> > All that changed from the other functions was the removal of the h:i
> > in the date function. Hope this is useful to someone. Or if there is a
> > better way to do the same thing I'm open to learning!
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