User's local time in post!

[Admin]

A very simple hack, but I'm sure your users will like this. :)
With this you can display the local time for every user in their post. Look to the left to see the hack in action.

To install this hack download the attached file (localtimepost.hack.php), upload to your /admin folder and use vbHacker (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36378).

That's all I have to say... wow that was short. :D

Have fun that's what really matters! :)

[Abbas]

Hey..nice one FireFly- especially for forums with people from all around the world.

Thanks
-Abbas

[Tim Wheatley]

This is great! Thanks :)

[Tommy Boy]

You mean it didn't show the local time before this hack?? :eek:

[TheComputerGuy]

Very Nice Chen,

[filth]

Excellent hack

Cheers

[Jawelin]

Nice idea !
Just, I got confused reading the translated NOW time just above POST time...
It shouldn't be cleaner to put there the original poster time AT THE MOMENT he posted, instead of the poster timezone at the reader's instant ? :rolleyes:
This issue, I could use $post[dateline] instead of time() ... What do you think about ? ;)

Besides, I made a slight modification to display that line only when the poster's time is different than the 'official' board time, just to have a lighter postbit on the left side...
Great idea I stolen immediately, btw!
:)

Thanks.

[Admin]

Yeah you can use $post['dateline'] instead of time() to get the time it was when the post was posted. But I want to know what the time IS right now, because maybe I need to PM the user or something. :)

[Tommy Boy]

Ahh... NOW I get it. Sorry for the confusion earlier.

[Lionhead]

Cool hack

Thx FireFly :)

[Massiel]

Very cool, gonna try it!

[Lionel]

I don't get it. I have my time set as -5 For EST and it is showing 2:47 AM for some one in Montreal when it is 9:40 only.

[Massiel]

Tried it but it's not showing anything :( I assume it's the funcions.php and not the admin/functions.php right? I am sure that's how it is. Found the line, added the stuff under it, saved it, uploaded it and then went to postbit template and added the $post[localtime] but nothing showed. Where in the postbit does that go anyway? Does it replace something else or does it go on its own? Thanks in advance :)

[Lionel]

ok-I guess the members never set their time...

[Massiel]

Please help!

[Lionel]

Originally posted by Massiel
Please help!

admin/functions.php

forums/functions.php not supposed to exists.

[Massiel]

What do you mean forums/functions.php is not supposed to exist? what is it doing there then? Now I am more confused :(

[Admin]

You should not have any file called functions.php in the vBulletin root folder, only one under the admin folder.

[Massiel]

How come there is one? Should I delete it? wow....

[Psychdrone]

Hey ff, how much of a load dose this add??

I like it but......

[eva2000]

why not local date as well ?

[Erwin]

Great hack as usual from FireFly! :)

[Admin]

Psy -- none.
eva -- is that really needed? I thought it would just complicate the postbit more. To do that anyway, replace $timeformat in the hack to "$dateformat $timeformat".

[eva2000]

Originally posted by FireFly
Psy -- none.
eva -- is that really needed? I thought it would just complicate the postbit more. To do that anyway, replace $timeformat in the hack to "$dateformat $timeformat". well it will confuse a few people as to whether it's a certain time on the same day or the day after/before

it could be

1 am local time but that could be on Mar 11 or Mar 12

[RCK]

If you want to install this hack into your pm system,
just do the following:

in your private.php, just after } else {
$fromuserinfo['username'] = "N/A";
}

copy the FireFly's code, and change all the $post['localtime'] with $fromuserinfo['localtime']

then into your privmsg template,
just add Local Time: $fromuserinfo[localtime]<br> after Registered: $fromuserinfo[joindate]<br>
Enjoy :cool:

[Admin]

Just released a vbHacker version. :)

[Visionray]

worked great! Thanks :D

[Itworx4me]

Love the Hack FireFly. Is there anyway for the time to update like every 10 seconds or so??? In stead of it updating when you change threads or pages.

[mashby]

Great work Firefly! I installed it without a bit of trouble on my 2.2.5 vB. Thank you! :D

[KuraFire]

Yay, brilliant hack, thanks! :D

*hits install button*

[bonnmac]

I'm not having much luck with hacks today. It doesn't show up? Local Time shows up but nothing after it. :( I used vbhacker and it said everything was successful. I went and dble checked everything but it still doesn't show anything.

[Cynthia Blue]

Got the file.. I don't have VBHacker and I really don't want to get it. :P This should be simple to just plop the code in, but what are the symple instructions? All the weird code in the download file is messing me up. :p

Edit... I think those number (;i:9;s:40) refer to the line number? Or at least the last number? Well I have another hack in that file (fuctions.php) so line numbers ain't gonna cut it. :)

Edit2.. ok it's the length, not the line number. But I still don't know what code to find, and what to put it by/replace it with. :p

Thanks.

[Smoothie]

A text version of this hack would be appreciated!

[Admin]

Text version as requested by Smoothie. :)

[Smoothie]

Thank you FireFly!

[Mone']

Thankyou !

[Boofo]

Thank you very much. I've been looking for this, must have missed it. Thanks again! :)

Originally posted by RCK
If you want to install this hack into your pm system,
just do the following:

in your private.php, just after

copy the FireFly's code, and change all the $post['localtime'] with $fromuserinfo['localtime']

then into your privmsg template,
just add Local Time: $fromuserinfo[localtime]<br> after Registered: $fromuserinfo[joindate]<br>
Enjoy :cool:

[bluecat]

Worked for me just fine in 2.2.5. I had to manually edit part of the code and vbhacker told me exactly how to do it. :) I do have a question for anyone...does that vbhacker work on any script?

[Boofo]

No, it will only work on scripts written for it. :)

Originally posted by bluecat
Worked for me just fine in 2.2.5. I had to manually edit part of the code and vbhacker told me exactly how to do it. :) I do have a question for anyone...does that vbhacker work on any script?

[Parker Clack]

Chen:

Ok. I don't know what I am doing here so what would you put your their local date?

You have

$post['localtime'] = date($timeformat, time()+($post['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);

for the localtime.

what would you use for $post['localdate'] ?

Thanks,
Parker

[Admin]

The same thing, except $dateformat instead of $timeformat.

[Parker Clack]

Thanks Chen. That worked like a charm.

Parker

[Boofo]

If I wanted to use that on my forum home, where in the index.php would I need to enter it? :)

Originally posted by FireFly
The same thing, except $dateformat instead of $timeformat.

[bandersen]

Cute, I have installed it!

Please....what code do I put inside a popup to display all users in the same timezone?

[Odil]

Originally posted by FireFly
A very simple hack, but I'm sure your users will like this. :)
With this you can display the local time for every user in their post. Look to the left to see the hack in action.

To install this hack download the attached file (localtimepost.hack.php), upload to your /admin folder and use vbHacker (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36378).

That's all I have to say... wow that was short. :D

Have fun that's what really matters! :)

I just installed this but it just says local time:
with no time displayed. How can I fix this or remove it if fix isn't possible?

Odil

[Admin]

Have you uploaded the hacked functions.php?

[Heineken77]

This is my first hack with vbHacker. Thanks firefly! works great :)

Got it working perfectly and used chModded functions.php to 777. What was it originally I can't seem to recall. 644?

Thanks!
Heineken

[Boofo]

Chen,

Is the following what I would need to get the date format, too? And can I use this on my forumhome?

} else {
$post[signature] = "";
}

/* User local time in post */
global $timeoffset;
$post['localtime'] = date($timeformat, time()+($post['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
/* User local time in post */

/* User local date in post */
global $timeoffset;
$post['localdate'] = date($dateformat, time()+($post['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
/* User local date in post */

[Admin]

Yes, and no.

[Boofo]

Could you please tell me then how to get the users date according to their time offset for the forumhome? :)

[Admin]

$bbuserinfo['localtime'] = date($timeformat, time()+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
$bbuserinfo['localdate'] = date($dateformat, time()+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);

[wolfe]

no working for me just says Local Time: nothing here :( please help i have edited templates and uploaded functions.php

i am using VBB 2.2.4

[Massiel]

Firefly this worked great for a while but for some reason my local time is not 4 hrs off, any ideas why? :(

[Keyser S?ze]

installed with the txt ver. getting this error, was a very easy install so i dunno why im getting this error, on the main page right at the top

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/virtual/site61/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/functions.php on line 2255

this is line 2255 WHERE subscribethread.threadid='$threadid'

any help pls?

[2 X Viverridae]

Installed quickly, works great!

Seem to be saying that to FireFly a lot today... :)

[NexDog]

Clicks install ;)

[Odil]

Originally posted by FireFly
Text version as requested by Smoothie. :)

Thanks Firefly, vbhacker file ads the Local time part in but not the actual time, gives an error that the code required couldn't be found.

Odil

[Ice Man_00]

Can this be used in a newer versions of VBB ??
Tried to install it manually in 227 version, but it dosen`t show.

Here`s what i did:

} else {
$post[signature] = "";
}

/* User local time in post */
global $timeoffset;
$post['localtime'] = date($timeformat, time()+($post['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
/* User local time in post */
} else {
$postsperday=0;
$post[username]=$post[postusername];
$post[usertitle]="Guest";
$post[joindate]="Not Yet";
$post[posts]="N/A";

Is this wrong ?

[Boofo]

Here's what I have and it works fine. I am using 2.2.5, but I can't see why it wouldn't work in 2.2.7 unless it has changed more than I thought it did. Are you using $post[localtime] in your postbit? By the way, I have the local date here too in case you want that too. :)

} else {
$post[signature] = "";
}

/* User local time and date in post */
global $timeoffset;
$post['localtime'] = date($timeformat, time()+($post['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
$post['localdate'] = date($dateformat, time()+($post['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
/* User local time and date in post */
} else {
$postsperday=0;
$post[username]=$post[postusername];
$post[usertitle]="Guest";
$post[joindate]="Not Yet";
$post[posts]="N/A";

[Ice Man_00]

thx for the quick reply. But it still dosen`t work. Must have changed a lot since 2.2.5 then... :(

[Boofo]

Are you using $post['localtime'] or $post[localtime] to get the time?

Originally posted by Ice Man_00
thx for the quick reply. But it still dosen`t work. Must have changed a lot since 2.2.5 then... :(

[Tim Wheatley]

Reinstalled 2.2.7. Thanks again.

[Ice Man_00]

If you mean in my postbit template, this is what i use...

Location: $post[field2]<br>
Local time: $post[localtime]<br>
Local date: $post[localdate]<br>
Posts: $post[posts]<br>

[N9ne]

I have $post[localtime] and it works for me :confused:

[Ice Man_00]

Since this is hacken into functions.php and is output in the postbit template. Is there anywhere else it gets the info from ?? Another file ??
Maybe there is something missing, somwhere..

[aykordeen]

I've tried to install it several times on my 2.2.8 and I keep getting this error message:

Parse error: parse error in /home/www/mywebsite/forum/admin/functions.php on line 817

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbdate() in /home/www/mywebsite/forum/admin/sessions.php on line 399

Any ideas as to the cause?

Thanks.

[XFLBret]

is there a way to make this work in the PM postbit as well?

[LangTuDaTinh]

thanks for a great hack

i modifed a bit since some of my user doesn't chage to their local time when register so

i added another option in

registeradult
registercoppa

by change to this



<option value="0" >(GMT) Western Europe Time, London, Lisbon</option>
<option value="0.1" selected>Please select your local time</option>


as u can see i changed default option to another option which value is 0.1.

so if user doesn't select their local time zone when they are registering, the value for time zone will be 0.0 instead of 0

i also modifed a bit in functions.php



} else {
$post[signature] = "";
}

/* User local time in post */
if ($post[timezoneoffset] =="0.1") {
$timetag="";
$timetabbr="";
$post[localtime]="";
}
else {
global $timeoffset;
$post['localtime'] = date($timeformat, time()+($post['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
$timetag="Local Time: ";
$timetabbr="<br>";
}



then instead of put $post[localtime] in postbit, i will put

$timetag$post[localtime]$timetabbr

I also use these for Location and Bookmarks's hack.

if user doesn't specify a location then their location will not display in postbit and the same for bookmarks' hack.....check out my postbit.

[ChevyMan]

Ok I installed this but I get an error. It has local time but after it says array [localtime] how can I fix this?

Thanks

[Sliderx]

that great thx FireFly

[Esr Tek]

I installed this w/ vbhacker and it seemed to go fine..
However I have no difference in forums..
Vb 2.3.0
Any ideas.. I am a VB and php newb

[Esr Tek]

**Bump**

Please anyone???

It all went thru the automated way yet it's not working :(
It didn't seem to really update the function.php (even though it had no errors on install ??)

However my offline (deafult file) is the same as the online (updated) file.

The above post's have me confused as what to add, which one of the edits (code quotes) is the right one??

Many Thanks in advance ;)