db8 Site Last Modified

Introduction

Module to display the last modification date, based on the article (create/modified) dates in your site. Note that it does not display any other changes, e.g. in Category or Modules.

db8 Site Last Modified

Versions

Joomla 4 version: mod_db8sitelastmodified-j4-v4.0.1.zip
Joomla 3 version: mod_db8sitelastmodified-j3-v3.0.1.zip
Joomla 2.5, 1.5 and 1.0 versions are no longer available

Usage

Text before Date: Put here any text that should be displayed before the date.
Date/time format: Use the PHP date format to format the date/time.
Text after Date: Put here any text that should be displayed after the date.
Note: HTML tags are allowed, so you can use and around your text to get bold characters.

Example

Text before Date: This site was last < b > modified on:
Date/time format: l d F Y, H:i:s
Text after Date: < /b > !!! will display: This site was last modified on: Thursday 17 April 2014, 18:30:59 !!!

Changelog

15-Mar-2022 : v3.0.2 (Joomla 3 version)
- Fixed some errors with J4 code in the J3 Module
7-Mar-2022 : v4.0.1 (Joomla 4 version)
- Increased the version number to force Joomla 4 websites to use the new Joomla 4 version
- Replaced old J3 helper.php with empty placeholder (new J4 helper is now located in /src/Helper/DateHelper.php)
7-Mar-2022 : v3.0.1 (Joomla 3 version)
- Fixed issue with missing files in .zip package
6-Mar-2022 : v3.0.0
- Refactored Joomla 3 version to namespacing (used since Joomla 3.8)
- Added Joomla 4 version
28-Jan-2015 : v2.6.0
- Added filter="raw" to mod_db8sitelastmodified.xml to make it possible to add HTML code to "Text before/after Date" fields.
17-Apr-2014 : v2.5.0
- Changed date format from PHP strftime to PHP date to display weekday & month in other languages. Updated the module to Joomla 3.x and added for automatic future update notifications and one-click-update functionality

Thanks to

Chris Gelauff - for Translation of fr-FR language pack.
Markus Wortmann - for Translation of de-DE language pack.

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Good concept; not-so-good implementation

Michael Russell (30).
Posted on 02 June 2026

Functionality

The concept is good; execution is not so good. Using the date created or modified is not what I wanted. I think date published is better.

Ease of use

Fairly straightforward and intuitive. Minor criticism—e.g. rendering text within

elements that require repositioning with CSS.

Support

Unsupported from what I can tell; the software is free, available for download from GitHub. Has not been maintained in over four years.

Documentation

"Documentation" consists of inline help prompts under module setting fields. Captioning of fields uses symbolic constants.

I used this to: As an experiment because nothing else was available. I built a completely new module, with properly translated language strings, without using any of this module's code; using the date published instead of created ensuring that at least one article existed and was published.

Nice little helper

Rene Haimerl (2).
Posted on 20 June 2023

Functionality

This free (thank you developers!) module does exactly what it's supposed to.
The output syntax can be adjusted to your individual needs.

Ease of use

As easy as it can be. You just should know a littlebit about CSS to style the output your way.

I used this to: Frontpage display of last modification time (it was a customer request). Formerly i used a custom module that i had to update manually.

Simple & easy

Clint (4).
Posted on 08 April 2016

Functionality

A useful extension, though the content is in an HTML list for some reason. Also, you can't leave the end punctuation empty.

Ease of use

Simple, though I had to bang the display into shape by neutralizing the HTML list's padding and bullet.

I used this to: Showing last updated date on a product catalog site.

Flawless

George Halkovic (1).
Posted on 16 October 2014

Nice compact module that does what it's supposed to. Thanks for providing!

respect!

Rösing (1).
Posted on 10 May 2014

Great job!

Thank you very much!!

Simple, but much effective!

cu freewilly

Excellent extension

Sateswar Sahu (2).
Posted on 20 April 2013

This extension is very nice, it works what it is made for. It is very simple and tiny module. Easy to understand and modify and deploy in site.

Thank you very much for sharing nice module!

Merci!

Gilles Testard (9).
Posted on 30 March 2013

Easy to install, to publish, it does what I need. Thank you.

It does what it says. Great!

Johan Jaimes (1).
Posted on 23 March 2013

Thats all, it does what it says. Easy to install, easy to publish, easy to customize. A must have for a site that is frequently updated.

Flawless module!

Marcus Johansson (1).
Posted on 06 August 2010

This is one of those modules that is 100% kosher.

It does what it claims to do, installation is straighforward, administration is a delight. No skills needed. Fit for the royal family!

Here's a tip for newbies like myself.

If you for example want to have two lines like this:

"This site was updated:

05 augusti 2010, 15:14"

The input would be:

This site was updated:

Cheers

Marcus

Excellent & straightforward

jos bredek (1).
Posted on 31 August 2008

Excellent, straightforward module that does precisely what's intended to do. Easy installation too.

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