PmWiki | Cookbook / EZLocaleDate

Summary: make displaying the date and/or time with a non-English language inside the wiki easy

Version: 1.2

Prerequisites: none

Status: Working

Maintainer: JB

Categories: Markup

Downloads: EZLocaleDate.php Δ

Questions answered by this recipe

How do I display the date or time with a non-English language in a wiki page using wiki code?
How do I display the date or time with a non-English language in a specific format in a wiki page?

Description

Display date or time with a non-English language in a wiki page.

This is easier than using MoreCustomPageVariables.

Syntax is easy. Use the form of page code like this:

(:ezlocaledate formatting string:)

(:ezlocaletime formatting string:)

Default formatting code:

Todays date is(:ezlocaledate:). The current time is (:ezlocaletime:).

will display like this:

Todays date is April 2, 2007. The current time is 5:04:56.

Formatted code:

(:ezlocaledate M j, Y h:i:s a:)

will display like this:

Mar 30, 2007 11:55:01 pm

Note: ezlocaledate can display time and ezlocaletime can display the date!

Date formatting information is available at url

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

Installing

Copy EZLocaleDate.php Δ to your cookbook directory

In your config.php enter:

include_once("cookbook/EZLocaleDate.php");

or in your farmconfig.php enter:

include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/EZLocaleDate.php");

Notes

Release Notes

This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Please donate to the author at url: http://gnuzoo.org/GNUZooPayPal

Version: 1.2 - Initial Release

EZLocaleDate