How can I alter the 'submitted by username' for a comment?

Question

I am rendering comments on my site. I am using the Zen theme. If I remark out <?php print $submitted; ?> in comment.tpl.php the 'username replied on' part is no longer rendered. But I don't want to remove the whole thing - just the 'replied on' text. I can't work out how to alter this bit. Thanks

In Zen comment.tpl.php it reads: '$submitted: Submission information created from $author and $created during template_preprocess_comment()'. Presumably, somewhere there will be: $author . 'replied on' - and this is what I need to alter.

Answer 1

Solution

A solution is to not use $submitted, but to use $author and $created separately in comment.tpl.php.

Answer 2

you could override theme_comment_submitted()

    function yourtheme_comment_submitted($comment) {
  return t('Posted by !username on @date at about @time.', array(
    '!username' => theme('username', $comment),
    '@date' => format_date($comment->timestamp, 'custom', 'd M Y'),
    '@time' => format_date($comment->timestamp, 'custom', 'H:i')
  ));
}

but the way I prefer is instead of using $submitted try using $author and $created along some words you rather to use.

on the other hand the easiest and not recommended way to do this is to use locale module, and then translate it to the same language you have but with the words you want!