Hi there
would it be possibel to edit the extra field date output for a single (specific) template?

in this case i have the pre-formated date: (eg:) Monday, 21 June 2014
i would like to take out the week day, but only for this template;

i read about this but it was for k2 entire date format, not for extrafield date, nor for a specific template..

any ideas to fix this?

thanks in advance
Bruno

Sorry but the extrafield uses the default format.
You can change the other dates in your template or use a text input instead.

Hi Bruno,

The solution that I was able to figure out requires Hacking K2 (which I know is not the best thing - so if anyone knows of a solution that does not require a hack - please provide it)

Background:
The K2 Date Extra Field use the K2_DATE_FORMAT_LC to format the date. Which would then require a site-wide Language Override. But what if you only want to format the date for one or a few specific date extra fields, well this is what you need to do.

Open File:
/components/com_k2/models/item.php

Find Code:
Replace With: (this date format simply removes the comma after the day - making it easy to modify later)

Now in your template override file, you can convert the Extra Field Date with the following code:

I hope this helps,

Joe Campbell

This looks really nice Joe, Well Done :)

Thanks Krikor - it took a lot of trial & error as I am not a coder (proof that you do not have to be a super coder to make a super Joomla website)

An other workaround that does not need a core file change could be a str_replace on the extra field value

$newdate = str_replace(array("monday, ","tuesday, ","wednesday, ", "thursday, ","friday, ","saturday, ","sunday, "), "", $this->item->extraFields->Date->value);

This would change 'monday, 1 march 2017' into '1 march2017'

Same can be done for months etc..

Thank you Ronny :)