[support] few forum customizations.

[Benjamin Melançon]

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 at 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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