Show the correct date format to your visitors

Often, with the use of smarty in your tpl under PrestaShop, you want to display a date in the format corresponding to the language used by your visitors by placing the month and day as it should.

It's quite simple, it always requires a search because you do not practice this kind of change in your code every morning.

Little reminder

As a first step, you should know that this trick works with the format of the standard dates in your databases, of the type YEAR-MONTH-DAY. This format may seem barbaric at first reading but it is totally logical, since it allows to classify in the right order the dates.

In our case

PrestaShop offers a small overload of the Smarty engine with the dateFormat function which must be used as follows:

{dateFormat date = $ your_date full = 0}

If $ your_date is set to 1975-06-04 this will show

in french: 04/06/1975

English translation: 06/04/1975

So the contract is respected.

But the full option is what ????

And you're right to ask me this because it shows the schedule or not, so full = 0 will not show the time while full = 1 will display it.

The format is identical to all languages ​​hh:mm:ss.

Attention, if you use the option full = 1, do not forget to do it with dates containing the schedule otherwise it will always return 00:00:00.

bonus

Little end-of-trick gift.

If you want to display the current date and therefore what changes every day, it's better. You have smarty who will help you.

$smarty.now|date_format:'%Y-%m-%d'

What give something of the style:

{dateFormat date=$smarty.now|date_format:'%Y-%m-%d' full=0}