Formatting exif date format

walterbz

I was looking for a way to display the exif date in the european format:
day-month-year hour:minute instead of year-day-month

Since I didn't found a setting or a solution I made a little mod in the template-function.php line 2387 and below.

Original:
`
<?php
foreach ($exif as $field => $value) {
$label = $_zp_exifvars[$field][2];
echo "$label:";
echo html_encode($value);
echo "\n";
}
?>
`
modified:
`
<?php
foreach ($exif as $field => $value) {
$label = $_zp_exifvars[$field][2];
echo "$label:";
if ($field=="EXIFDateTimeOriginal" || $field=="EXIFDateTime"){
$date = new DateTime($value);
echo date_format($date, 'd/m/Y H:i:s');
}else{
echo html_encode($value);
};
echo "\n";
}
?>
`
I know that is not a good solution to modify the core files. Every update I must remember to do the same mod.
It would be nice to modify the code with a variable setting in admin (the date format 'd/m/Y H:i:s') so it would be possible to customize as needed.

Perhaps there is another "cleaner" solution. In case let me know, Thank you
Walter

sbillard

Your code looks reasonable. Of course you need not modify the core, you can simply make your own print function under a different name by copying the code then modifying it.

There is a define for the data format set for the site: `DATE_FORMAT`.

Probably the cleanest solution would be to add formatting information to the `$_zp_exifvars` array and use that in the output function.