Display date in recent post function

[rjmccollam]

I am using the Recent Posts Function from the Snippets section of CSS-Tricks, and it is working great, but how do I add the date into the mix?

The function:

function recent_posts($no_posts = 10, $excerpts = true) {



global $wpdb;



$request = "SELECT ID, post_title, post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type='post' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $no_posts";



$posts = $wpdb->get_results($request);



if($posts) {



foreach ($posts as $posts) {

$post_title = stripslashes($posts->post_title);

$permalink = get_permalink($posts->ID);



$output .= '
'  . htmlspecialchars($post_title) . '
';



if($excerpts) {

$output.= '
' . stripslashes($posts->post_excerpt) . '
';

}



$output .= 'Read More
';

}



} else {

$output .= '
No posts found
';

}



echo $output;

Thanks

[TheDoc]

I’m not sure if this will work, but it’d be my first guess. I’m only posting the foreach section since it’s the only thing relevant:

foreach ($posts as $posts) {

$post_title = stripslashes($posts->post_title);

$permalink = get_permalink($posts->ID);

$thedate = get_the_date($posts->ID);



$output .= '
'  . htmlspecialchars($post_title) . '
';



$output .='
' . $thedate . '
';



if($excerpts) {

$output.= '
' . stripslashes($posts->post_excerpt) . '
';

}



$output .= 'Read More
';

}

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