Format the "submitted by" text in Drupal

5/18/2010

I initially used the "submitted by" Drupal module but had a problem with the date appearing correctly using that module. So... placing this function in the template.php did the trick...

The theme name just get's replaced by whatever your theme name is:

This is for posts:

function themename_node_submitted($node) {
  return t('Posted by !username on @date',
    array(
      '!username' => theme('username', $node),
      '@date' => format_date($node->created, 'custom', 'd M Y')
    ));
}

and this for the comments...

function themename_comment_submitted($comment) {
  return t('Posted by !username on @date at about @time.',
    array(
      '!username' => theme('username', $comment),
      '@date' => format_date($comment->timestamp, 'custom', 'd M Y'),
      '@time' => format_date($comment->timestamp, 'custom', 'H:s')
    ));
}