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[Robert9]

yeah, one day iss great, havephun

[Freddie Bingham]

/me is confused about adding new fields since you can simply reference lastvisit to figure how long it has been since someone has been online. It will be exact if the person logged out and it will be TIMENOW - lastvisit - cookietimeout if they used cookies.

[Neo]

Thats true, but I wasnt thinking about that...I was just thinking about how it would look in my head if I was coding it without the use of vb.

[Neo]

OK... I will have something soon.

[Boofo]

How soon?

[Logik]

I wouldn't mind this hack either.

[Mystis]

Deviantart inspired? This should be a piece of cake, I believe I've got a function sitting around to return a formatted difference between 2 times. I'll see if I can dig it up. Sorry if I'm stepping on your toes, Neo

Edit: just realized how old this thread is, but I'll still finish the hack anyway, could be useful to someone

[Mystis]

PHP Code:

function pluralize($word,$var){
    if($var!=1){
        $word = $word."s";
    }
    if($var>0){
        $word = $var." ".$word." ";
    }else{
        $word = "";
    }
    return $word;
}
function timediff($earlier,$later){
    $secs = $earlier - $later; 
    $string="";
    if($secs>=604800){
        $weeks = 0;
        while($secs>=604800){
            $secs -= 604800;
            $weeks++;
        }
        $string .= pluralize("week",$weeks);
    }
    if($secs>=86400){
        $days = 0;
        while($secs>=86400){
            $secs -= 86400;
            $days++;
        }
        $string .= pluralize("day",$days);
    }
    if($secs>=3600){
        $hours = 0;
        while($secs>=3600){
            $secs -= 3600;
            $hours++;
        }
        $string .= pluralize("hour",$hours);
    }
    if($secs>=60){
        $minutes = 0;
        while($secs>=60){
            $secs -= 60;
            $minutes++;
        }
        $string .= pluralize("minute",$minutes);
    }
    return $string;
} 


There are the functions anyway, you would use like this:

PHP Code:

$variable = timediff(time(),$userlastvisit); 


with $userlastvisit being the field 'lastvisit' pulled from the user table from the row of the corresponding member. Then, just add $variable in any of your templates and it will return a string something like "1 day 3 hours 12 minutes", or "2 weeks 8 hours 1 minute". Let me know where you would want this information displayed, and I'll write and release a full fledged hack for it.