Hi Neil,
I haven't themed forums in this way but here's the general approach:
You want to *look* in forum.module (and possibly other files such as include/*.inc files-- core isn't entirely modular (yet) to try to find the function that outputs the time. It _should_ be named function theme_something_something. (Where it is actually called to produce output it will be in the form theme('something_something') -- this is how Drupal allows you to override theme functions rather than modify core.
You don't modify forum.module, you will want to copy that function, paste it in a template.php file for your theme, and rename it mythemename_ or phptemplate_something_something, and modify it here.
I'm not saying it won't get more complicated than this ( for instance, you don't want to retheme something like theme_item_list because that will change the display all over your web site, so you need to look for a more specific theme_ function that calls theme_item_list ) but that's the Drupal way there.
benjamin, Agaric Design Collective, http://AgaricDesign.com/
On Nov 5, 2007 7:07 PM, Neil: esl-lounge.com neil@esl-lounge.com wrote:
I have a lot of work to do on node-forum.tpl.php and comment.tpl.php in an attempt to get a nice fresh look to my forums.
I have a few specific questions, but don't want to swamp everyone so will just begin with what is hopefully quite a simple one:
on the forum listing page (where you actually have the threads listed out), both the Created and Last Reply columns have the date in "Time Ago" format. How can I alter this to be an actual date? I presume I would need to go into the forum.module file, is that correct?
Thanks in advance
Neil
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