[yoosuke]

I’m looking for advice on how to display day of the week at “reply-post-date”.

In topic pages, “at” is used in the display of posting date. like…

2014/05/28 at(←here!) 00:21

I want to replace the display from “at” to “(Sun)”.
In other words, I want to display a day of the week of posting time.

I tried many times by using PHP function “preg_replace”.
However, it was too difficult for me. Code that I made ​​is as bellow.

function change_reply_post_date($output) {
$output = preg_replace( '/at/' , "<?php echo get_post_time('D'); ?>" , $output );
return $output;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_post_date' , 'change_reply_post_date');

In this case, it did not result in an error.
However, “at” disappeared.

What should I do?
Would you please advice me?

WordPress: ver3.9.1
bbPress: ver2.5.3

[Robin W]

You were very close !

function change_reply_post_date($output) {
$day= '('.get_post_time('D').')';
$output = preg_replace( '/at/' , $day , $output );
return $output;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_post_date' , 'change_reply_post_date');

the line $day…etc. sets $day equal to an ‘open bracket’, followed by the day, followed by a ‘close bracket’ – the full stops are a concatenate in php.

your original "<?php echo get_post_time('D'); ?>" does the following
<?php = switch on php – we’re already in php, so not needed
echo = send to screen – but we don’t want that, we want the result to be sent, which will be done by other code
get_post_time= that’s the key part that you had figured
?> = ends php, which we don’t want to do as the rest of the line is php

[yoosuke]

Hi! Mr Robin W!

Now, my Website is likely to complete.
Thanks to you. (Detailed description of PHP codes was very helpful for me!)

My Website is a site to help people.
Near future, some troubles might be found in my Website.(It might be tomorrow..orz)

At that time,
I would be happy if you come back and advice me.

Best regards.

[Robin W]

great, glad you are fixed !!