How can I display the time of the post in the forum?

E.g. If I wanted to display todays date like this:

25 OCT

In bbpress I used this

<?php echo date("j", strtotime($topic->topic_time)); ?>

But it does not work anymore in the BP/Bbpress installation. So how do you display the date in that fashion?

[bpisimoneParticipant @bpisimone 3 years, 6 months ago]

Anyone feel like helping today? Pretty please?

[BorisParticipant @travel-junkie 3 years, 6 months ago]

Hey,

actually, the j should only give you the day of the month and nothing more. If you want the day and the month you need to use “j M”.

The rest should work just as you wrote it if you have access to the variable $topic. Try this:

var_dump( $topic );

and see what it outputs. If there’s nothing or NULL, then you’ll have to populate $topic first.

[bpisimoneParticipant @bpisimone 3 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks there Travel-Junkie

How exactly would I populate $topic?

It’s not that

<?php echo date("j", strtotime($topic->topic_time)); ?>

<?php echo date("M", var_dump($topic->topic_time)); ?>

isn’t working entirely, it just gives me completely wrong numbers (1 JAN). And if I’ve done the var_dump right it indeed gives me a NULL.

Thanks again

[BorisParticipant @travel-junkie 3 years, 6 months ago]

You need to put the var_dump stuff on its own line below your original date function

Just had a look at the forum functions and here’s what you need to do.

global $forum_template;

echo date("j", strtotime($forum_template->topic->topic_time));

Let me know if it doesn’t work.