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Is there a simple way in Drupal to display the last modified date for a node as part of the node.tpl.php file?

caseyamcl
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If you put this code in the node.tpl.php file it will show the date of the last change to the node:

<?php
echo format_date($node->changed);
?>

with whatever HTML you want around it.

Mark Cameron
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No need to edit node.tpl.php file. Use the following in template.php.

function sitetheme_preprocess_node(&$variables) {
  $node = $variables['node'];

  // Only add the revision information if the node is configured to display
  if ($variables['display_submitted'] && ($node->revision_uid != $node->uid || $node->revision_timestamp != $node->created)) {
    // Append the revision information to the submitted by text.
    $revision_account = user_load($node->revision_uid);
    $variables['revision_name'] = theme('username', array('account' => $revision_account));
    $variables['revision_date'] = format_date($node->changed);
    $variables['submitted'] .= t(' and last modified by !revision-name on !revision-date', array(
      '!name' => $variables['name'], '!date' => $variables['date'], '!revision-name' => $variables['revision_name'], '!revision-date' => $variables['revision_date']));
  }
}
user1988227
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If you place below code in you node.tpl.php file -

<?php 

    $node = node_load($nid);
    echo $node->changed;

?>

you will get the timestamp and i think that can be changed to date.

Here $nid in tpl file represent the current node id, and hook node_load() load the all information related to node id.

Vikas Naranje
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    I don't think you need to load the node again. The $node object should be available in node.tpl.php. – nmc Sep 27 '11 at 11:34
  • ya i realized that after posting the answer. But thanks to correcting the code performance. – Vikas Naranje Sep 27 '11 at 11:52
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    This doesn't really matter, results of `node_load` are cached so you only incur an extra couple of milliseconds by reloading the node. Depending on the module load order it might actually be *necessary* to reload the node to get at it's fully loaded properties – Clive Sep 27 '11 at 12:50
  • This works great in a view header. I have a view that displays the results of a data table. I needed to show when the information was last updated. The data table is updated when I upload a new file as an attachment to a specific node. – sho Jun 05 '13 at 00:31