Chat Modifications - Fix vbShout Timezone problem

This vbShout plugin: http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/ajax-fl...ut-2-1-a-4536/

Has a serious bug with Time Zone changing to that of the last person to post in the shout box.

Here is a fix so that each user will see the time in their local timezone correctly.

1. Open template forumhome_vbshout_shout
Find this (should be at the very beginning):

<tr>

After it add:

                                <td nowrap align="left" valign="top">
                                <font size="1">
                                    <date>{$Shout['time']}</date>
                                    
                                </font>
                                </td>

Make sure that the "date" and "/date" tags are on the same line, and with no spaces between them and the $Shout variable, just as above. These are not valid html tags, and we are going to write code to replace them ourselves.



2. Open template forumhome_vbshout
Find:

Shouts.innerHTML = '<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="3" border="0" width="95%" align="left">' + ShoutRequest.handler.responseText + '</table>'

Replace it with:

                        var formatMe = ShoutRequest.handler.responseText
			formatMe = replaceDates(formatMe);
                        Shouts.innerHTML = '<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="left">' + formatMe + '</table>'

In the same template
Find this:

function sb_CollectHV(sbForm)

Before it add:

// replaces <date> tags
function replaceDates(s) {
            var ret = "";
            var matches = s.match(/<date>\d+<\/date>/g);
            for(var i = 0; matches != null && i < matches.length; i++) {
                var utc = matches[i].match(/\d+/);
                var date = new Date(utc * 1000);
                ret = ret + s.substr(0, s.indexOf(matches[i]));
                ret = ret + (date.getMonth()+1) + "/" +
                            date.getDate() + "/" +
                            date.getFullYear() + " " +
                            date.getHours() + ":" +
                            ((date.getMinutes() < 10) ? "0" : "") +
                            date.getMinutes() + ":" +
                            ((date.getSeconds() < 10) ? "0" : "") +
                            date.getSeconds() + " ";


                s = s.substr(s.indexOf(matches[i]) + matches[i].length);
            }
            ret = ret + s;
            return ret;
}

3. Open file vbshout.php
FInd this (There are similar code blocks, this should be in the function rewrite_shoutbox_flatfile() around line 226):

        $Shout['time']     = buildTime($Shout['s_time']);
        $Shout['s_shout']  = bbcodeparser($Shout['s_shout']);
        $Shout['style']    = '';
        $Shout['data']     = unserialize($Shout['s_data']);
        $Shout['username'] = fetch_musername($Shout, 'usergroupid');

        if (preg_match("#(\#)?0099FF#i", $Shout['data']['color']) && $Shout['s_by'] != 1)
        {
            $Shout['data']['color'] = '';
        }

Replace it with:

        // $Shout['time']     = buildTime($Shout['s_time']);
        $Shout['time']     = $Shout['s_time'];
        $Shout['s_shout']  = bbcodeparser($Shout['s_shout']);
        $Shout['style']    = '';
        $Shout['data']     = unserialize($Shout['s_data']);
        $Shout['username'] = fetch_musername($Shout, 'usergroupid');
        
        if (preg_match("#(\#)?0099FF#i", $Shout['data']['color']) && $Shout['s_by'] != 1)
        {
            $Shout['data']['color'] = '';
        }

This should now pass the date as UTC and JavaScript will convert it on the client side to the appropriate date.

[Tulsa]

Gave it a whirl and checked the edits twice. It's only showing "Loading"...

[lovelypk]

i was looking for this.
thank's.

[dbirosel]

Works great... can we have 12 hour time instead? How about the date being more simple like instead of 4/9/2007 have it as 4/9? How about adding brackets to the timestamps?

Overall, it's running great on my site. Thanks!

[dbirosel]

Originally Posted by Tulsa

Gave it a whirl and checked the edits twice. It's only showing "Loading"...

Happened to me also, but i just posted a test message, and then all of a sudden it showed the current conversation. So far it's working good, just looks kinda ugly. lol :P

[lovelypk]

i am getting random number's instead of date, like this "1176175903".

[dbirosel]

Originally Posted by lovelypk

i am getting random number's instead of date, like this "1176175903".

Are you using the flat file version from vbhackers? Is this your first time editing the vbshout.php and vbshout templates?

[newhere]

Originally Posted by lovelypk

i am getting random number's instead of date, like this "1176175903".

Did you modify all the templates correctly?

[newhere]

Originally Posted by dbirosel

Works great... can we have 12 hour time instead? How about the date being more simple like instead of 4/9/2007 have it as 4/9? How about adding brackets to the timestamps?


Overall, it's running great on my site. Thanks!

For formatting, you can change the function:
"replaceDates(s)"

Here:

                ret = ret + (date.getMonth()+1) + "/" +
                            date.getDate() + "/" +
                            date.getFullYear() + " " +
                            date.getHours() + ":" +
                            ((date.getMinutes() < 10) ? "0" : "") +
                            date.getMinutes() + ":" +
                            ((date.getSeconds() < 10) ? "0" : "") +
                            date.getSeconds() + " ";

To whatever you like.

[lovelypk]

Originally Posted by newhere

Did you modify all the templates correctly?

working now.
12 hour clock timing will be much better though.