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I've got a website with lots of content that has been migrated. For each node I've added the original date as the Authored on date. However, search snippets show the date a node was last updated.
I've read the search-result.tpl.php file and can't figure out how to change the $info_split['date'] variable so that it shows the publication date instead.
How can I display the Authored on date instead of the updated date in the search results?
Use a the preprocess function, template_preprocess_search_result() to add a custom authored on date variable to your search-result.tpl.php template.
function MYTHEME_preprocess_search_result(&$variables) {
//$variables['result']['node'] is the node object returned in the search results
//the $variables['result']['node']->created property contains the authored on date
if(isset($variables['result']['node'])) {
$variables['created_date'] = format_date($variables['result']['node']->created, 'short');
}
//$created_date will be available in your search-result.tpl.php for printing
}
It's probably worth mentioning that the base template is printing out the $info variable which is the concatenation of a few vars in $info_split. Changing $info_split won't change the printed date without changing search-result.tpl.php.
<p>Published on <?php print $created_date; ?></p> or <p>Published on <?php print date("jS F Y", $created_date); ?> in search-result.tpl.php I don't get a date (just the text "Published on").