I have been trying to change the Freshness from “hours since” last post to an “actual date”. After lots of trial and error I came up with this: “ which does exactly what I want except I cant change the format. It comes out 2010-09-03 15:34:15, I have tried the D M j Y G:i:s but that doesn’t change anything. Any suggestions?

[@guru06 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Anyone?

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

have you tried using something like: date(“D M j Y G:i:s”, strtotime(bp_get_the_topic_time())) ?

Converting the string to a timestamp and then reformatting it.

[@guru06 Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Hi thanks for your reply, I did it like this:

and ended up with:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/*removed*/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/forums/forums-loop.php on line 66

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Then you have an unexpected T_STRING on that line somewhere

It basically means that your syntax is incorrect and you have terminated the line prematurely somewhere with a ‘ or , or ; or not closed the previous line.

[@guru06 Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Changing this: “ to this “ did not work. Any suggestions

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 2 months ago]

Make sure you’re not using quotations in the date() function.

Try this:
`date(‘D M j Y G:i:s’, strtotime(bp_get_the_topic_time()));`

I replied to a similar thread a while ago; I’ll try to dig it up.

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

I don’t think there should be any trouble with quotes in this case. See examples on this page, partic. #4 http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Are you still getting the ‘unexpected T_STRING’ message? Are you certain line 66 is your date(…) line?

If Ray’s suggestion / similar thread doesn’t help, it would be a good idea to post a few more lines of your code, so we can see the snippet in context.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 2 months ago]

There’s a problem with curling quotations (`“`) not (“) because it will give that T_STRING error.

[@guru06 Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

I just tried ` ` again with the proper quotes and now the date disappeared all together. I’m perplexed

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

You will need to echo the string returned from the function!

[@guru06 Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

thats over my head, can you explain a little more

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

date() returns a string, it doesn’t display it. You’ll need to use the ‘echo’ statement to display it.

That’s a basic PHP question, not anything BuddyPress specific – Google “php echo”

To work with the templates and significantly modify BuddyPress look and feel, a basic grounding in PHP is a pre-requisite.