Thread date in threadbit display

[becafuel]

Hello,

I wanted to show the thread's first post date in the subjects list (see attached screen copy) and I think something is wrong out there

I thought it should have been easy to do by modifying the "threadbit" template and inserting $thread[postdate] at the right place. But I only had empty values, even though a correct value existed in the threads table...

After studying the code in forumdisplay.php and in functions_forumdisplay.php, I've noticed that the $thread[postdate] was filled with $thread['postdateline'] (as a parameter of a formatting function in that case). See code below :

PHP Code:

    if ($thread['postdateline'])
    {
        $thread['postdate'] = vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $thread['postdateline'], true);
        $thread['posttime'] = vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $thread['postdateline']);
    }
    else
    {
        $thread['postdate'] = '';
        $thread['posttime'] = '';
    } 


but the "postdateline" field is not part of the query returning thread values in the forumdisplay.php file

PHP Code:

    $threads = $db->query_read("
        SELECT $votequery $previewfield
            thread.threadid, thread.title AS threadtitle, thread.forumid, pollid, open, replycount, postusername, postuserid, thread.iconid AS threadiconid,
            $lastpost_info, thread.dateline, IF(views<=replycount, replycount+1, views) AS views, notes, thread.visible, sticky, votetotal, thread.attach,
            hiddencount
            " . iif($vbulletin->options['threadsubscribed'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], ", NOT ISNULL(subscribethread.subscribethreadid) AS issubscribed") . "
            " . iif($deljoin, ", deletionlog.userid AS del_userid, deletionlog.username AS del_username, deletionlog.reason AS del_reason")
            . iif($vbulletin->options['threadmarking'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], ', threadread.readtime AS threadread') . "
            $hook_query_fields
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread
            $deljoin
            " . iif($vbulletin->options['threadsubscribed'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], " LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "subscribethread AS subscribethread ON(subscribethread.threadid = thread.threadid AND subscribethread.userid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ")") . "
            " . iif($vbulletin->options['threadmarking'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], " LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "threadread AS threadread ON (threadread.threadid = thread.threadid AND threadread.userid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ")") . "
            $previewjoin
            $tachyjoin
            $hook_query_joins
        WHERE thread.threadid IN (0$ids) $hook_query_where
        ORDER BY sticky DESC, $sqlsortfield $sqlsortorder
    "); 


The result is an empty date/time string of course. I think that the first code snippet should mention $thread['dateline'] instead of $thread['postdateline']. I've tried this on a local test forum and it works great (attached screen copy).

Now I have what I wanted, but I had to modify the source. So does anyone knows about anything else that do not alter the original files ?