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.
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[Craigr]

Excellent hack worked great.

Craig

[ExAvIoUr]

Originally posted by bigmattyh
If you would like your date to be formatted in the "Today, at 08:33 PM" format, here's how to do so:

When you install the hack, just insert ", at" into this line:

eval("\$bbuserinfo[lastvisitdate] = \"".vbdate($dateformat,$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]).
" , at ".vbdate($timeformat,$bbuserinfo[lastvisit])."\";");

That's all!

i can't find that code in index.php. can ne1 help me?

[bigmattyh]

Originally posted by ExAvIoUr
i can't find that code in index.php. can ne1 help me?

It's towards the beginning of index.php. Keep in mind that it doesn't include the ", at" part of the code (the part in red). Just search for the first part of the string.

[Tim Wheatley]

Can this be used with 'yesterday' 'today' on 2.2.6?

[ExAvIoUr]

Originally posted by bigmattyh
It's towards the beginning of index.php. Keep in mind that it doesn't include the ", at" part of the code (the part in red). Just search for the first part of the string.

i still can't find it. do u mean admin/index.php?

[bigmattyh]

Originally posted by Tim Wheatley
Can this be used with 'yesterday' 'today' on 2.2.6?

If you're asking if it works on 2.2.6, yes.

Originally posted by ExAvIoUr
i still can't find it. do u mean admin/index.php?

No. The line is around line 53 of your forum/index.php file. All you're doing is looking for a line that looks like this:

eval("\$bbuserinfo[lastvisitdate] = \"".vbdate($dateformat,$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]).
" ".vbdate($timeformat,$bbuserinfo[lastvisit])."\";");

and turning it into this:

eval("\$bbuserinfo[lastvisitdate] = \"".vbdate($dateformat,$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]).
", at ".vbdate($timeformat,$bbuserinfo[lastvisit])."\";");

[Tim Wheatley]

lol... Sorry. I meant to post that in Firefly's 'let users choose their own date format' thread, I had them both open at the same time.

[Googa]

Works well. Good hack! Thanks

[ExAvIoUr]

the closest thing i have to that is this

PHP Code:

$bbuserinfo['lastvisitdate'] = vbdate($dateformat, $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']);
$bbuserinfo['lastvisitdate'] = " at " . vbdate($timeformat, $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']); 


is that it. and where do i put that.

[ExAvIoUr]

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