Modify node submitted information, remove author name from post information.

In this article I am going to show you how to modify Drupal submitted information by editing your template.php file from your theme directory.

By default, Drupal's node info is shown like this Submitted by author_name on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 17:20. We will first change it to author_name on monday 06/05/2008 then we will remove author name and change it to Posted on Thu 6/5/2008. By doing this you will know the basic concept of this function.

To print submitted information on node, Drupal themes uses $submitted variable on theme's node.tpl.php file. Drupal take this variable as argument (timestamp of node) to a hook functiontheme_node_submitted($node) which manipulates the argument and return it. We will modify this function in our template.php to achieve our goals. We will make use of php date function.

First lets change it to author_name on monday 06/05/2008.
In your template.php file add this code:

function phptemplate_node_submitted($node) {
  return t('!username on @day @datetime',
    array(
      '!username' => theme('username', $node),
	  // Here you need little php date function knowledge.
	  '@day' => format_date($comment->timestamp,'custom','l'),
      '@datetime' => format_date($comment->timestamp,'custom','m/d/y'),
    ));
}

Now lets remove the author name from and make it Posted on 6/5/2008.
In your template.php file add this code:

function phptemplate_node_submitted($node) {
  return t('Posted on @day @datetime',
    array(
      // '!username' => theme('username', $node),
      '@day' => format_date($comment->timestamp,'custom','D'),
      '@datetime' => format_date($comment->timestamp,'custom','m/d/y'),
    ));
}

Now if your know ledge of php date function is good, you can change your submitted info to practically anything.