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It's always the 'simple' ones that end up being a pain, eh.

It's a little hard to tell exactly what you are seeing when you say 'no date' shows up - do you mean that it displays just like it did before?

It should show...
DD-DD-DD TT:TT AM/PM
by Thread-Starter

Now - does it show the word 'by' prior to thread starter? Or, does it just show the name? Knowing this will tell us if there is an error in the forumdisplaybit template, or if the problem is somewhere else.

The relvant portion of my forumdisplay.php looks like this...

PHP Code:

      if ($wordwrap!=0) {
        $thread[title]=dowordwrap($thread[title]);
      }

      $thread[lastreplydate]=vbdate($dateformat,$thread[lastpost]);
      $thread[lastreplytime]=vbdate($timeformat,$thread[lastpost]);
      $thread[firstpostdate]=vbdate($dateformat,$thread[dateline]);
      $thread[firstposttime]=vbdate($timeformat,$thread[dateline]);

      $thread[gotonew]=''; 


If you reverted your forumdisplay bit template, then changed...

PHP Code:

<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor}" width="30%" nowrap><normalfont>$thread[postedby]</normalfont></td> 


to this...

PHP Code:

<td bgcolor="{ secondaltcolor}" width="30%" align="right" nowrap><smallfont>$thread[firstpostdate] <font color="{ timecolor}">$thread[firstposttime]</font><br>by <b>$thread[postedby]</b></smallfont></td> 


That should be all there is to it.

(Removing the space after the {'s in { secondaltcolor} and { timecolor} of course)

If you are still having problems, maybe a small screen shot?