Yesterday/Today Datestamp Hack

YESTERDAY/TODAY DATESTAMP HACK - Updated 5/25/02
Tested and working on vB 2.2.1 -> 2.2.6

Description: This hack replaces the standard "05-25-02, 02:45 PM" date with "Today" or "Yesterday" anywhere you have a date posted, if the date matches today's or yesterday's date.

Demo: Installed on vBulletin.org.

The following are add-ons that may be helpful depending on your specific needs.

Extra features:

• Template-based version : Allows you to specify different values for "Today" and "Yesterday" -- useful if you have multiple language style sets on your board. (i.e., you can set the value for today to "Today" in your English style set, and "Aujourd'hui" for your Francais style set.)
  
• Change "You last visited:" to the "Today 08:33PM" format : Due to the way vB was coded, this does not happen by default. Follow the instructions in this link to make this change.
  
• Change the date style to "Today, at 08:33 PM"

Helpful template hacks: Due to the way the standard vB template set handles date columns in forumhome.php and forumdisplay.php, some template changes may be of use:

• To modify forumhome.php: Follow the instructions here
• To modify forumdisplay.php: Follow the instructions here

Comments and criticism are always welcome.
Please click the install button to show your support.

[cyrus]

EXCELLENT, THIS ONES SO EASY TO INSTALL AND JUST AS USEFUL

KEEP IT UP !

[julius]

02-28-03 at 01:23 PM julius said this in Post #247
When you forward or send a reply to a private message, in the out box and the in box the "Today" is still there after some days. I think it would be better in these cases the date, as when you edit a post.

I solved this:

in private.php find (NOT the first, but the second at about line 514):

PHP Code:

    $message[postdate]=vbdate($dateformat,$message[dateline]);
    $message[posttime]=vbdate($timeformat,$message[dateline]); 


and change to:

PHP Code:

    $message[postdate]=vbdatenoty($dateformat,$message[dateline]);
    $message[posttime]=vbdatenoty($timeformat,$message[dateline]); 


That's all.

[reismarktq2]

With the exception of a few Finns, most of my users like this hack very much. Would anyone know how to make this hack a user-selectable option so that I can appease the not-so-silent minority on my boards?

[Ninth Dimension]

great hack, thank you

[kristian]

Installed first time withou any problems at all...

vBulletin Version 2.3.3

Might be nice to update the install document with new code references as the version this was originaly written for is well outdated.

[VirtualHogwarts]

/me clicks install!

Love this .. dont understand why it's not defualt but hey easy install none the less!

[Shell Geeks]

Does anyone have a text file of this hack? I have downloaded it three times and the text file looks like

PHP Code:

\clbrdrb\brdrs\brdrw15\brdrcf1 \clbrdrr
\brdrnone \cltxlrtb\clftsWidth3\clwWidth2088\clshdrawnil
\par   global $bbuserinfo,$timeoffset, $dateformat, $timeformat;
\par 
\par   if ($dateformat==$format) \{
\par     $todaystamp=mktime();
\par     $todaydate=date($format,$todaystamp+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
\par     $yestdate=date($format,(($todaystamp-86400)+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600));
\par     $date = date($format,$timestamp+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
\par     if ($date==$todaydate) \{
\par       $date="Today";
\par     \}
\par     if ($date==$yestdate) \{
\par       $date="Yesterday";
\par     \}
\par   \} else \{
\par     $date = date($format,$timestamp+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);
\par   \}
\par   return $date;
\par \}
\par 
\par {\listtext\pard\plain\f35\fs20\insrsid9528220 \hich\af35\dbch\af0\loch\f35 


[enginethatcan't]

Installed

[DarkSavior]

Wow, easy install! Works great on 2.3.4! Two thumbs up!

[TheLab]

Ok after i resolved my noob problems i installed it and it works great on 2.3.2