What is the time variable?
 

Here's an example of what I'm trying to do.

<vb:if condition="$time==1">stuff to do here</vb:if>

So it will do something at a certain time.

I just made "$time==1" up... I'm trying to figure out what goes there. Can anyone help?

The vB constant for the time is...

What do I put where the 1 is? I'm not sure what TIMENOW looks like.

For example, what if I want 6:00 AM?

TIMENOW is a 10 digit number derived from php time(). You use vbtime and vbdate to see what it is in text form. Or you can use plain old php date().

It's in seconds. So to get an hour ago, minus 3600. To go an hour in the future, add 3600.

Maybe this will help Free Tool: Convert Unix Time Stamps To Readable Time and Date

So what exactly do I make condition equal to if I want

6:00 AM

or 8:00 PM

etc

Well, first you have to work out the users timezone if they are a member. So look at $vbulletin->options['hourdiff']

something like

$timestamp = TIMENOW - $vbulletin->options['hourdiff'];

Then you can get the hour with $hourofday = date("G", $timestamp )

Then you can work out the condition.

if ($hourofday == 6) $message = "6AM";
if ($hourofday == 20) $message = "8PM";

OK, well I'm doing this in my templates. I put that stuff in a plugin... but I don't really understand how plugins work.

Because then I went to my template and put <vb:if condition="$hourofday==6">stuff to do here</vb:if> and messed with the times

I also did <vb:if condition="$hourofday">test</vb:if> to see if it even existed... but $hourofday didn't have any value apparently... ?

this was my plugin:

Try:

$hourofday = intval(date("G", $timestamp ));

I've seen that resolve a similar situation.

Of course, it has to be 6 am to work too.

Actually, I'm seeing now that it works as a plugin alone. But what I don't understand is how I take that variable from the plugin and use it as the condition for my if-statement in the template.

Post your code so we can see where you are.