Date Format : One 4 All

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By default OsC have two functions to format a date: 
[quote]tep_date_long($raw_date)  => [color=red]Thursday 28 August, 2003[/color]
tep_date_short($raw_date) => [color=red]08/28/2003[/color]
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that stored in includes/functions/general.php.

So how to format an other date? 

We should make a new function. But how if we need many date format?so... we should make a new more flexible function to format a date, that can give any date format we want. We call it: [color=blue]tep_date_format()[/color].

I just make litle modification to default function, like below: 
[size=9][i](store it in file general.php) [/i][/size]

[code]  function tep_date_format($date_format, $raw_date) {
    if ( ($raw_date == '0000-00-00 00:00:00') || ($raw_date == '') ) return false;

    $year = (int)substr($raw_date, 0, 4);
    $month = (int)substr($raw_date, 5, 2);
    $day = (int)substr($raw_date, 8, 2);
    $hour = (int)substr($raw_date, 11, 2);
    $minute = (int)substr($raw_date, 14, 2);
    $second = (int)substr($raw_date, 17, 2);

    return strftime($date_format, mktime($hour,$minute,$second,$month,$day,$year));
  }
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We can call this function anywhare ion our catalog:
[quote]tep_date_format(DATE_FORMAT_LONG, 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]Thursday 28 August, 2003[/color]
tep_date_format(DATE_FORMAT_SHORT, 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]08/28/2003[/color]

tep_date_format('%A', 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]Thursday[/color]
tep_date_format('%d', 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]28[/color]
tep_date_format('%m', 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]08[/color]
tep_date_format('%B', 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]August[/color]
tep_date_format('%Y', 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]2003[/color]
 :idea: to see another strftime() format, see: http://www.php.net/strftime

tep_date_format('%B - %Y', 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]August - 2003[/color]
tep_date_format('%B - %Y', 'AnyTimeStamp') => [color=red]August - 2003[/color]
[/quote]

So, now we can remove 2 functions above indeed.