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sde	05-24-2004 04:00 AM

formatting time outside of vb based on offset

I want to make a new page which shows news, .. however I would like to format the time from my queries based on the offset the users put in their profile.

take this code for example:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?

$bbuserinfo[tzoffset]=-7;

$result = mysql_query("select title,body,unix_timestamp(time) as time from news order by time desc");

?>

how do i incorporate the tzoffset into my query to reflect the local time for the user viewing the news?

my time field is stored as a datetime type, .. i can change it to integer14 and store the unix timestamp if that is necessary.

thanks

Boofo

05-24-2004 04:31 AM

Here's what I did for my users online today part of forumhome and it seems to work great for each user's time offset.

PHP Code:


		
			
$timestamp = vbmktime(0, 0, 0, vbdate('m', TIMENOW, false, false), vbdate('d', TIMENOW, false, false), vbdate('Y', TIMENOW, false, false));

Then set up your query something like this:

PHP Code:


		
			
<? 
$result = mysql_query("select title,body from news WHERE dateline >= $timestamp order by dateline desc"); 
?>

The $timestamp will get each user's time according to their offset.

sde	05-24-2004 05:08 AM

thanks a lot boofoo =) your help is much appreciated!

sde	05-24-2004 05:15 AM

err wait, .. that does help me figure out how to display the user's current time .. and query against that, .. but when i display my news, it will always display the same news articles. there will be no 'where' clause.

when i loop through the news, i need to display the time as the user's current time.

.. heh and as i think about it, would i do something like this?

PHP Code:


		
			
<?

$result = mysql_query("select title,body,unix_timestamp(time) as time from news order by time desc limit 10");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){

  // does this next line convert the news article time to the user's timezone?

   $timestamp = vbmktime(0, 0, 0, vbdate('m', $row[time], false, false), vbdate('d', $row[time], false, false), vbdate('Y', $row[time], false, false)); 

}

?>

thanks

sde	05-24-2004 05:29 AM

=/ now that i tried it, i can't figure out where vbmktime() is located.

i'm including global.php, do i need to include something else for that function?

Boofo

05-24-2004 05:43 AM

I'm sorry, I forgot to add this:

PHP Code:


		
			
require_once('./includes/functions_misc.php');

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