Post dateline from bbcode plugin
 

Hi,

I need a fixed-in-time dateline time() that does not change when someone quotes a reply.

Example:
1) Bob writes a post today. BBcode works, and uses time() to generate a dateline.
2) John replies to Bob's post at a later date, and the BBcode needs to reference the fixed-in-time time() from the original post 1, but instead it generates a new dateline as of John's reply.

There is no $post[dateline] in the bbcode_create.

The goal is for the bbcode to generate a dateline based on the POST dateline, and not the current system time().

Any help greatly appreciated.

You could try putting "global $post;" in your plugin code.

Thx. Tried that, still no $post[dateline]

--------------- Added [DATE]1334631758[/DATE] at [TIME]1334631758[/TIME] ---------------

BTW, any unique number that is unique to every post would be fine.

Well, there's the postid - in fact when you press the "quote" button you get bbcode tags with the postid in there. For instance if I quote your post above you get this:

[QUOTE=ctrlbrk;2320761]...

but I think that works by writing the postid into the code for the Quote button.

Thinking about it more, trying to use $post probably wouldn't work because it would be the information for the reply being created, not the post being quoted.