[andersson]

Is there a way to extend BB_Locale?

Today, BB_Locale calls init and that’s that. No hooks/event handling at all, as far as I can tell.

In method init, among other things, the following loads:

$this->datetime_formatstring['datetime'] = __('F j, Y - h:i A');

$this->datetime_formatstring['date'] = __('F j, Y');

$this->datetime_formatstring['time'] = __('h:i A');

The Question

What if anything can I do if I want to have a datetime_formatstring['special-date'] = __('Y F j - h'); added to BB_Locale. I’m using the three existing formats as listed above already and I want to add a fourth alternative without adding a row in core BB-files.

Just to be clear, I want to be able to do this:

_e("Today's date, formatted in a special way is:") . bb_datetime_format_i18n( bb_current_time(), 'special-date' );

Am I missing something obvious here or is the only solution right now to modify the locale.php file?

Appreciate the help.

[andersson]

Well, just to tell anyone who – in the future – might be stuck on the same or a similar problem.

I went with the following workaround:

Find a hook (action/filter) that gets called early in the process like bb_location.

Define a filter function for it.

In that function, add the following peace of code.

global $bb_locale;

$bb_locale->datetime_formatstring = __(‘j M, Y’);

Obviously, you can call your time format something else.

Not the prettiest of solutions, but it works and I get to keep my bb_press installation free of code that I’ll surely forget to update.