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Low Nice Date

Compatibility: EE1 & EE2
Latest release: 2.1.0 (released 2011-03-29)
Licensing: CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

Compatibility

The download contains both the EE1 and EE2 version. Note: the EE1 compatible version uses the tag {exp:nice_date}.

Installation

ExpressionEngine 2

  • Download and unzip Low Nice Date
  • Copy the ee2/low_nice_date folder to your /system/expressionengine/third_party/ directory
  • All set!

ExpressionEngine 1

  • Download and unzip Low Nice Date
  • Copy the ee1/pi.nice_date.php file to your /system/plugins/ directory
  • All set!

Template tags

Parameters for low_nice_date tag
Parameter Description
date Any date string. Required.
format Formatting code, just like the Date Variable Formatting. Required.
localize Localizes date to current member, defaults to no.

Examples

{exp:low_nice_date date="2007-05-20" format="%F %j%S, %Y" localize="yes"}

This will output something like May 20th, 2007.

{exp:low_nice_date date="{segment_3}-{segment_4}-01" format="%F %Y"}

For a url like http://www.domain.com/index.php/blog/archive/2007/05/, this will output May 2007.